Posts Tagged ‘Activism’

Women Win Peace Prize

This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women.



A Timeline of Resistance

Learn about how the global economic crisis lead to resistance the spread throughout the globe.



Why Can’t We Share? The Occupy Wall Street Movement Grows

When people in New York City held a protest on Wall Street in September, they decided to stay there. The protesters wanted to let people know that just one percent of people in the country have far too much wealth and power over the lives of everybody else.



Raising the Bar: kids say no cheap labor for chocolate

While few can resist a Hershey chocolate bar, the bitter truth is that Hershey takes advantage of foreign student workers and probably uses kids to harvest its cocoa. Read this story to learn more and find out what youth are doing about it.



Your Turn: “How do you help the environment?”

IndyKids asked these five-year-olds in Homer, Alaska, how they take care of the Earth.



France takes to the streets

3.5 million people have taken part in massive strikes to protest government plans to increase the early retirement age from 60 to 62, and full retirement from 65 to 67.



Baseball Fans Take a Swing at Anti-Immigration Law

Protesters are calling on Major League Baseball to help boycott Arizona because of SB-1070, a new immigration law.



Who am I?

Can you name this journalist and co-founder of the NAACP?



People’s Climate Conference

Thousands of people take part in an international summit on climate change.



Cheers for Volunteers!

Not only does volunteering make other people feel good, it makes you feel good, too.