The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project uses a new online database to record the events, places, people, organizations and publications that have formed Canada’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Protestors’ actions are intentionally borderline but environmental defenders insist their actions are nothing compared to the risks that political inaction pose. Our expert explains.
Activists can face a lot of stress and even burnout campaigning for the causes they care about. Showing themselves self-compassion can help them deal with that stress.
Some people refuse to file tax returns or pay all of their income tax due to moral or ethical concerns. The IRS warns that they, like more selfish tax scofflaws, may face penalties.
Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are radically rethinking how to be most effective in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
Mae D Huettig, Romana Javitz and Shirley Graham DuBois were instrumental in their respective media fields but very few of us will be aware of their individual contributions.
Like the exemplars of social realist cinema, Mr Bates vs The Post Office follows stories of individual plight facing a social problem filmed in a naturalistic manner.
More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.
Hundreds of Australian journalists signed an open letter to news organisations calling for better coverage of the war. It calls their impartiality into question.
Shareholders accused companies that campaigned during this year’s Voice referendum of wasting time and energy that could be better used increasing their returns.
Legal experts worry the “doubling down” on demonstrators who are opposed to the planned giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest.