If there’s a defining maxim of our era, it’s that the adults of America seem to have departed the public stage. Political leaders preen and hashtag and hurl insults, and when real life intrudes on the food fights? They double down on the hashtags and insults. In one of the greatest ironies of 2018, teenagers…
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On June 30, hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets across all 50 states in “Families Belong Together” protests, a response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy,” which, before June 20, separated migrant parents from children who crossed the U.S. border. But, that gathering is just the beginning of the story. The…
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Tens of thousands gathered across the U.S. for Families Belong Together marches on Saturday, which took place in over 700 locations, including Boston, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. According to CNN, protesters organized around three main tenets: that families separated at the U.S. border be reunited immediately, that the government end…
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As women all over the world marched in support of women’s equality and intersectional issues on Saturday, famed attorney Gloria Allred spoke in Utah to remind us of something pretty harrowing: that women’s rights and equality aren’t guaranteed under the Constitution. Her speech laid out the fact that the Equal Rights Amendment has yet to…
Read moreAn estimated 4.9 million protestors gathered at 673 marches around the world on Saturday to support equal rights for women, protest against sexual harassment and assault, encourage crowds to vote in this year’s midterm elections, and speak up for the rights of immigrants and Dreamers. As people gathered in the streets of cities like New…
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One year after millions of people took to the streets in what became the largest single-day protest in the history of America, the Women’s March returned, reignited by movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, as well as the fight to protect DACA and immigrants’ rights. And that’s really only the beginning. (The government shut-down and Trump’s…
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