Photos by Neil Cosgrove Hosted by Indians Against CAA NRC in Schenley Plaza in Oakland on January 26, 2020. The CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) was enacted into law on December 12, 2019 […]
UNITED MARCH FOR A SECULAR INDIA
DECOLONIZING AT YALUI VILLAGE
“HONOR ESTO’KGNA/HONOR ANCESTORS” ACTIVISTS (L-R) DUCK LONGSOLDIER, SYMONE SAUL, AND GABRIEL MCMORLAND AT YALUI VILLAGE. By: Symone Saul Listen! Do you hear it? The gunshots ringing out like fireworks from Reynosa, across […]
PITTSBURGH REGION RESPONDS TO TRUMP ESCALATION OF WAR ON IRAN
By: Craig Stevens Photos by Craig Stevens and Alan Hart SCHENLEY PLAZA ANTI-WAR RALLY. JANUARY, 2020. KHALID RAHEEM, NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY. EMILY DE FERRARI, BDS AT JAN 4, 2020 ANTI WAR […]
‘WE ARE NOT AFRAID’ — STATEMENT AT HEARING FOR ARRESTED PITTSBURGH ACTIVISTS
By: Tammy Hepps TAMMY HEPPS (CENTER FRONT), STANDS WITH FELLOW PROTESTERS. SCREENSHOT FROM THE BEND THE ARC WEBSITE. BEND THE ARC’S POLITICAL ADVOCACY ARM HARNESSES THE COLLECTIVE POWER OF PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN JEWS […]
Nominations for 2019 Person of the Year
Every year the Thomas Merton Center honors two activists or organizations for their work towards peace and social justice. The Thomas Merton Award honors a nationally or internationally known activist for their […]
National Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War and Racism
Looking for the Helper in the Rio Grande Valley
By Symone Saul In December of 2018, I observed first-hand the humanitarian crisis at the so-called Texas-Mexico border and found volunteers and activists working outside traditional bureaucratic systems to address long-term and […]
Yemen Can’t Wait
By Joyce Rothermel Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, is currently facing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; the United Nations reports that half of the population is already facing pre-famine […]
Why Pitt’s Grad Students Need a Union
By Neil Cosgrove When graduate students at the University of Wisconsin successfully formed a union in 1969 they made headlines because such an entity had never been seen before. But now, according […]
Introducing Pittsburgh’s International Women’s Strikers (PGH IWS)
By Krystal Knight and INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE USA CHAPTER While 2016 was a tumultuous year for women globally, here in the U.S. most would attribute that to the catastrophe of the Trump […]
