Tag: activism
Why ‘acting locally’ is impossible in an interconnected world
Jennifer M. Bernstein, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the country...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the...
What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job...
Removing mini-shampoos from hotel rooms won’t save the environment
Yossi Sheffi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
InterContinental Hotels Group will replace mini-shampoos and conditioners with possibly more efficient bulk products by the year 2021.
But environmental...
Companies promoting causes can be accused of ‘wokewashing’ – allying themselves...
Kim Sheehan, University of Oregon
More consumers want companies to address societal problems, including climate change and crumbling infrastructure.
Additionally, more than half want to buy...
What’s behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not...
Rebecca Tarlau, Pennsylvania State University
For the past few years I’ve been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken...
The early-20th century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of...
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
The Trump administration continues its assault on transgender rights.
In July 2017, Trump sought to bar transgender people from serving in...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
