Peter Rugh
Activst Kai Newkirk Wants You to Disrupt the Supreme Court
His plan to overturn Citizens United involves 10,000 people committing acts of civil disobedience across the US.
NYC's Greek Fascists the Golden Dawn Are Terrible Dinner Dates
The New York City cell of Greece's right wing organization are a bunch of assholes.
The KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas
Residents of Harrison, in Boone County, Arkansas, want to move beyond the town's racist history. The trouble is, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have settled in the area and made it their national headquarters.
Don't Drink the Water in West Virginia
Last week, in West Virginia's Kanawha County, teachers said that tap water smelled like licorice candy—an odor associated with MCHM, a coal-extraction chemical that flooded their water supply on January.
Protesting Fashion's Killers at NYFW
Photojournalist Ismail Ferdous arranged a spectacle outside of Lincoln Center during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to protest the human cost of fast fashion.
Bill McKibben Would Go to Jail to Halt the Building of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Environmental activist Bill McKibben is like Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln if Honest Abe shaved. A tall man with a soft voice, Bill knows how to incite passion in a crowd. In the last three and a half years, Bill has used these crowd-rousing...
Resurrecting Bed-Stuy Through 'The Death of Bessie Smith'
Bed-Stuy’s Interfaith Medical Center, which is facing imminent closure due to a lack of funds, recently hosted a free, site-specific performance of Edward Albee's The Death of Bessie Smith. If Interfaith closes, it'll be another blow to Bed-Stuy...
Chuck Palahniuk Is Keeping Portland Strange
I listened to the author of Fight Club wax poetic on Stumptown, "liminoid events," Occupy Wall Street, and his father's pornography.
Reverend Billy Talen Faces a Year in Prison for Protesting in a Chase Bank
Reverend Billy Talen led a theatrical demonstration inside a Chase bank protesting Chase's investment in greenhouse gas-emitting industries
Walmart Employees Have Nothing to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
Unlike its tens of thousands of employees who live beneath the poverty line, Walmart executives will be dining in luxury this Thanksgving.
Reverend Billy Talen Faces a Year in Prison for Protesting in a Chase Bank
Reverend Billy Talen and his Stop Shopping Choir led a theatrical demonstration inside of a Chase bank protesting Chase's investment in greenhouse gas-emitting industries. Now Billy is facing charges of rioting, menacing, and disorderly conduct.
A Very Walmart Thankless-Giving - The Potentially Devastating Economic Impact of the Retailer's Low Wages
Unlike its tens of thousands of employees who live beneath the poverty line, Walmart executives will be chowing on sumptuous meals with their families in the wealthy enclaves of Bentonville, Arkansas, this Thanksgiving.