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Six months ago, on November 17, 2018, Yellow Vests burst ‘out of nowhere’, with autonomous local units springing up all over France like mushrooms. The immediate cause was to protest an unfair tax on fuel, but demands expanded quickly...

It is often missed that the calls for reparations started long ago. Writers and readers forget that black women championed demands of reparations for slavery.

Over 1.6 million students across the globe have been striking on Fridays: for the climate, for our future. Here’s 5 ways you can support students going out on strike again on 24 May, and answer their call for real climate action.

Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).

Making the drive from Los Angeles with her friends, 19-year-old Sydney Takeda didn’t know what would be waiting for her at Manzanar National Historic Site, where 1 of the 10 incarceration camps that imprisoned Japanese-Americans in World War II...

While community activists demand ending the use of a dangerous gas at two California oil refineries, their owners claim the ban would cost jobs and raise gasoline prices.

"The U.S. government's harassment of whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning is intensifying."

With his 10-point proposal to overhaul the nation's schools, the presidential hopeful said he aims to "guarantee every person in our country a quality education as a fundamental human right."

Council on American-Islamic Relations report peels back donations to ‘fringe’ groups

It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.