On a Saturday evening in 2017, just before the Inauguration, I gathered with about forty other protesters outside the Catholic church that Paul Ryan attends in Janesville, Wisconsin. We quietly passed out flyers as parishioners filed in for mass. The flyers noted that Ryan was championing drastic changes to Medicaid that would be devastating for disabled people like us. Within minutes, the priest came out clutching a flyer. He angrily told us to get off the property. He said this was neither the time nor place for protest. We kept flyering. He went back inside the church. Within minutes, police were there, threatening to arrest us.

Since other places—notably Uruguay and the couple of newly weed-friendly American states—started decriminalizing and legalizing, British activists have stepped it up, uniting previously-fractured groups together under the UK Cannabis Social Clubs banner. Last week I met up with “Finn,” who fronts Feed the Birds.

After years of success with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Spider-Man on PlayStation 1, and Guitar Hero, Neversoft has closed its doors. Unlike many stories of studio closures, this one has a silver lining. Neversoft’s merger with Infinity Ward was revealed back in May, creating a “super-studio.” Neversoft played a role in the development of 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, giving them a head-start on the integration.

Jono Moylan: I bear the consequences for my decision to bluff ANZ bank with a fake press release. But the day will come when banks will have to choose between coal and their reputations

Activist group GetUp! says it is the victim of tactics “almost too dirty to believe” after one of its anti-coal videos was yanked by YouTube over what GetUp! says are fake copyright claims. The group says it posted an animated video - Don’t trust this company with our Great Barrier Reef – to YouTube on June 7 to draw attention to plans by Indian-based company Adani for a massive coalmine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.

The Brooklyn Bridge caper is nearly a week old, yet it's still a whodunit despite the New York Police Department invoking every digital age investigative technique in the book to crack what appears to be a low-tech prank that included kitchen cookware to pull off.

South Korean activists and North Korean defectors launched balloons laden with Choco Pies at North Korea this week after the popular chocolate treat reportedly became the target of a government crackdown.

They're Back. Anonymous has launched a full-frontal assault on the Israeli government's web presence over recent events in Gaza. It's alleged that the attacks escalated after the death of Tayeb Abu Shehada, 22, a Palestinian protestor shot wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. Here's the running tally of downed sites:

Pro-Palestinian activists for the second day blocked an Israeli-owned ship from docking at the Port of Oakland in a protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza.

This past spring, Cecily McMillan rode a bus across a bridge to Rikers Island, home of the notorious New York City jail. When the Occupy Wall Street activist was released nearly two months later, she had left her old self behind.

Net Neutrality is an important issue for CloudFlare as well as for our more than 2 million customers, whose success depends on a vibrant, dynamic, and open Internet. An open Internet promotes innovation, removes barriers to entry, and provides a platform for free expression.

Pakistan's army announced Friday that it had arrested 10 militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating gender equality and education for women.

Over the last few days, over 2,700 Everest College students woke up to find that someone had paid off their private student debt. This was no act of goodwill by the government, which is currently suing Everest parent Corinthian Colleges for its predatory lending practices. Nor is it a gift from Everest itself, which is expected to shutter its doors and possibly leave 72,000 students out of their time and tuition.

On the third anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a group of protesters is suing one of their fellows, who they claim took unilateral control of a Twitter account.

Police accountability has been enjoying surprising strides in recent times through the efforts of online activism and social media. That success has been followed by a number of spiteful statists working to undermine those efforts.

Two gunmen walked into a radio station and killed a local activist while he was giving his weekly radio program, prosecutors in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa said. It was the first on-air killing in recent memory in Mexico.

Two "Stop the Violence" organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition.

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“There has been a real powerful sense ... that the future they were promised has been taken away from them.”

The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon

Salwa Bugaighis was the first woman to call for the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi. After she cast her ballot in last year's election, men in hoods and military uniforms stormed into her home, shooting and killing her. A year later, her killers remain at large.

Many of the liberal decisions this spring, including the Obamacare, gerrymandering, Confederate flag and fair-housing rulings, were not “activist” at all. In fact, they were examples of judicial restraint since they deferred to the determinations of other branches of government.

Peta released photos of a SeaWorld employee and an activist who urged others to get ‘aggressive’ against SeaWorld – and they appear to be the same man.

Democratic candidate says her aim is to change laws, not hearts, in awkward exchange blaming Clinton and her husband for mass jailing of black Americans

Art, activism and asteroids: in honour of his upcoming Royal Academy show, we give you the need-to-know on China’s cultural juggernaut

Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than it would arguably care to be - though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience.

The online arm of the American Family Association is making crazy money—and paying no taxes—off of their campaigns against Chobani, the Muppets, and rainbow Doritos.

China just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t just affected by how well you manage credit – it also reflects how well your political opinions are in line with Chinese official opinions, and whether your friends’ are, too.

During her shift at Portland, Oregon’s Purringtons Cat Lounge on Sunday, Mary Numair looked out the street-facing windows and saw a woman carrying a sign.

The hacking collective Anonymous has threatened to reveal the names of 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, in a move which could cause immense embarrassment for supporters of the white supremacist organisation.

Pro:Clinton,Sanders; Con:Carson,Christie,Huckabee; Not Clear:Bush,Cruz,Fiorina,Graham,Kasich,O'Malley,Paul,Rubio,Trump

A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale devolves into an effort to censor dissenting views.

There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls

This week, the scholarly publishing giant Elsevier filed suit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, two sites where academics and researchers practiced civil disobedience by sharing the academic papers that Elsevier claims -- despite having acquired the papers for free from researchers, and despite having had them refereed and overseen by editorial boards staffed by more volunteering academics.

As the climate summit continues in Paris, we meet artist Tania Kovats, who insists that the fate of the oceans is inextricably linked to our own.