political activism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2023
  

  Can Activists Use Banking Regulations to Force Decarbonization?

  by Bart Elmore

  After Clinton-era reforms enabled consolidation of the banking industry, environmental groups in the early 2000s began to target the commercial banking sides of the firms that raised capital and provided credit to the fossil fuels industry. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  5/25/2023
  

  Book Bans and Attacks on Libraries are Energizing Youth Activism

  by Emily Drabinski

  Right-wing politicians in Texas are teaching students about the realities of democracy, but not in the way they might have hoped. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  Mars Perseverance and the King's Bay Plowshares: A Study in Priorities

  by Mike McQuillan

  The Kings Bay Plowshares group deserve a parade for protesting a nuclear submarine base. Instead seven of them are in jail as the United States spends billions of dollars a day on weaponry.

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• SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
  3/8/2021
  

  Socialite Mollie Moon Used Fashion Shows to Fund the Civil Rights Movement

  by Tanisha C. Ford

  Ebony Magazine's Fashion Fair offered a platform to Black designers while raising money for civil rights organizations – more than $60 million over a half-century. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/18/2021
  

  For Generations, African Americans Have Led Global Antiracist Movements

  by Brenda Gayle Plummer

  International organizations in the 20th century provided space for people from the developing world and African American activists to come together in movements that merged opposition to colonialism with demands for domestic civil rights. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/2/2020
  

  This Election, Black Women Are Leading the Way—Again

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Black women are continuing a long history of fighting to secure political rights in the face of efforts to deny them the vote. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  10/13/2020
  

  “Where The Waters Reflect The Clouds”: Examining Minnesota’s Indigenous History

  by Katrina Phillips

  "Recent events have forced Minneapolitans and Minnesotans to reckon with the state’s treatment of historically excluded populations. For the original inhabitants of what’s now Minneapolis, though, resistance and activism are nothing new."

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• Students, Want a Cure for the Job Market Blues? Consider Politics.

  by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

  The 2014 elections will give students plenty of opportunities for activism and even employment.