topic: Activism

The Polis Project's Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Zillah Eisenstein, a prominent and prolific feminist scholar and activist. She is the author...

History records that when Mahatma Gandhi raised a handful of salt in 1930, he shook the mighty British Empire. But history, as we know it,...

After a period of escalating political violence in Burundi, rebels attacked several army bases near Bujumbura on December 11th, 2015...

Human rights groups have condemned the murder of the environmental rights activist Berta Cáceres and called for the government of Honduras...

During the 1980s, Mohammad Afzal Guru dropped out of his medical degree program and crossed over the Line of Control into Pakistan-...

Gandhi famously quipped that when a woman can walk without fear on a midnight street, India would have truly achieved independence. In the...

I spent the majority of my summer in Los Angeles. New to the city as I was, I had no idea of what to expect besides the ominous presence of...

“Crawling on our knees so as to gain the sympathy of official Western quarters will do nothing to diminish our alienation from the world."...