Patti Smith talks about climate, politics, women’s rights and Bob Dylan

‘I’m going to be 75 this year; I’ve seen a lot of changes in areas that were once beautiful. Things have already been destroyed and young people are being born into this.’ Photo: Patti Smith at her local coffee shop […]

Putting Labor Back in Labor Day

Now more than ever, labor is tech and union drives at Amazon and grassroots movements like #appletoo are fighting for worker rights. Photo: Some union workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama lost their union vote by more than […]

Anti-Vax Protesters Appear to Storm former BBC HQ

Photo: Police officers try to stop protesters from accessing the Studioworks site in west London. Photograph: Martin Pope/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock Piers Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour party leader was recorded on one live stream as saying “we’ve got to take […]

This Irish-Canadian couple campaigned in Pinochet’s Chile

Photo: Chris Morrissey and Bridget Coll In 1999, when they were chosen as the grand marshals for Vancouver Pride in recognition of their advocacy. Courtesy of Chris Morrissey Bridget Coll and Chris Morrissey met as nuns in New York in […]

Tunisians caught in the eye of the coronavirus storm

Photo: Tunisians celebrated on July 25 after President Kais Saied announced the dismissal of the country’s prime minister following nationwide protests. (AFP) Is it a coup or the result of covid mayhem? I don’t claim to know but there are […]

A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn’t

Photo: Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the border with Gaza on Friday.Credit…Dan Balilty for The New York Times 14 May 2021 | David M. Halbfinger | New York Times The Israeli military abruptly announced after midnight on Friday […]

Glasgow protest detainee ‘overwhelmed’ by community support

Photo: One of two men are released from the back of an Immigration Enforcement van accompanied by Mohammad Asif, director of the Afghan Human Rights Foundation, in Kenmure Street, Glasgow which is surrounded by protesters. (Image: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire) Lakhvir Singh […]