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 […]
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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 […]
The Myth of a System
By Paul Cech There seems to be a belief in the myth of a system where society can handle all that comes its way in a fashion reminiscent of a Rube Goldberg […]
Why We Don’t Love Amazon HQ2; Let Us Count the Ways
By Neil Cosgrove (Photo Caption: Press conference and rally outside of the Pittsburgh P4 (Planet, People, Place, Profit) Conference at the David Lawrence Convention Center on April 26th. (Photo: Kim Dinh) A recent […]
March and April in Pictures
(Photo Caption: Protesting wage theft in O’Hara Township. More on Page 7. (Photo: Matthew Bauer) Young opponents of gun violence pack Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue on March 24th for the March For Our […]
Letter from the Director
By Gabriel McMorland This month, I want to invite friends and members of the Thomas Merton Center to get involved in an activist research collective we’re beginning this summer. Philadelphia, Buffalo, Washington […]
Guns for a Grade
(Photo Caption: CAPA (Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School) students organized a walk-out to protest gun violence in solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in Parkland, FL (Photos: ppuglobe.com) By Maggie […]
March 4: Action for Immigrants
(Photo Caption: Sabrina Liu of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, center, and Antonia Dominga, Merton Center Board Member, make their statements. (Photo: Neil Cosgrove) By Sabrina Liu On March 4, dozens of […]
Combating Sexual Violence on Campus
May 16, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza Why is it that campus rape is so stigmatized when, according to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), twenty to thirty percent of young women […]
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