Activism News — Topix

Nothing about Kheda Saratova's demeanor indicated the nature of her work when I first met her in Grozny five years ago.

The bear that recently killed a caretaker in a Cleveland suburb was the latest example of animal violence in a state that has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them.

O n Dec. 30, 1970, Charlie Goodell, the man who had been appointed to Robert F. Kennedy's Senate seat and lost it to James Buckley two months earlier, spoke again, as he was often doing, about his opposition to the Vietnam War.

Candles are seen with photos of Neda Agha Soltan, shot dead at a rally in Tehran, at a rally in support of Iranian election protesters organized by Amnesty International June 26, 2009 in New York City.

Two New York-based civil liberties groups have sued the federal government, saying its targeted killings of U.S. citizens overseas is unconstitutional.

Canada's largest and most influential business organization has launched a lobbying campaign urging Canadian senators to kill legislation requiring the government to deliver a science-based plan to fight global warming and provide regular reports on its progress.

A Chinese AIDS activist jailed after a run-in with a hospital administrator is in poor health but has vowed to keep fighting for compensation after being infected by tainted blood during a childhood transfusion, his father said Monday.

Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020 Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, 'are competing directly with food crops for fertile land'. Photograph: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets ...

On Wednesday, about 50 people gathered outside of Penn State's Old Main to tell PSU President Graham Spanier that there are well-informed student activists who are alive and well at Penn State .

Hong Kong locals take to the streets to show their anger after the Manila bus hostage crisis.

The rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have clamped down harder on opponents and critics in recent months - deepening a nasty split that could prevent Palestinian statehood even if peace talks with Israel kicking off this week succeed against long odds.

A former finalist in PETA's vegetarian girl next-door contest was released from jail on bond Saturday after being charged with leaving the scene of an accident last week that killed a man and his dog.

A Republican civil war is raging, with righterthanthou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul.

John Lennon's widow, the Japanese Happening artist Yoko Ono, plans to celebrate the 70th birthday of the slain ex-Beatle in Iceland, location of one of her works of art.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska is urging the city of Hastings to repeal its ordinance limiting the display of campaign signs.

For five years, Chavia Ali's attempts to start a disability rights group were thwarted - by prejudice, a lack of money and the Syrian government's stranglehold on civic life.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message.

It's been 33 years since Raye Fleming's arrest outside Southern California's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, near the height of the anti-nuclear power furor.

Author's note: An earlier article explained America's longstanding political repression agenda.

REAL AVATAR TRIBE: Members of the Dongria Kondh tribe gather on top of the Niyamgiri mountain, which they worship as their living god.