The Women’s March on Washington illustrated the wide variety of issues women are concerned about in the years ahead with Donald Trump. By Hannah Norman.

Even as the march’s diversity was being celebrated, it was also causing tension. By Karen Grigsby Bates.

The Avenger missile launcher is foremost a weapon of war. What is it doing at the site of a peaceful protest? By David Axe.

In North Dakota, Republicans introduced a bill that would allow motorists to run over and kill any protester obstructing a highway. By Spencer Woodman.

Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world gathered Saturday in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington.

The #J20 Art Strike resonates with the approach of the 1970 New York Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War, also commonly referred to as the Art Strike.

It began as a spontaneous feminist rallying cry via social media. It has morphed into what is expected to be one of the largest demonstrations in American history – a boisterous march about a smorgasbord of progressive issues, and an extraordinary display of dissent on a president’s first day in office peppered with knit pink hats. Before the bunting and barriers are even cleared away from Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands are likely to attend the Women’s March on Washington the following day, 21 January.

Continuing unrest over gasoline price hikes in Mexico flared up at the Tijuana border crossing Saturday night as a large protest prompted U.S. authorities to block access into Mexico from San Ysidro for nearly four hours. Southbound Interstates 5 and 805 began to reopen to motorists wanting to cross the border about 9:15 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.

Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen. 

The community we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle. By Desiree Kane.

Demonstrators have blockaded highways, looted shops and forced service stations across Mexico to close in a wave of angry protest triggered by a hike of more than 20% in the government-set price of gasoline. The announcement of the price increase came on 1 January – when long queues of cars were already forming at pumps because national oil giant Pemex was unable to supply all gas stations due to problems with oil refining and fuel shortages caused by theft.

By staying on message and advancing through prayer and ceremony, the water protectors gave the rest of the world a template for resistance. By Louise Erdrich.

Thousands of Warsaw residents joined a spontaneous demonstration in front of Poland's parliament to protest against a plan by the conservative ruling party to limit journalists' access to legislators. The march, which began on Friday, continued into the early hours of Saturday, with crowds blocking the parliament for hours. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling party, finally left the building after police forcibly removed protesters blocking the exit.

Peaceful protest is as much a part of democracy as elections. By Masha Gessen (Nov. 21, 2016)

Riots, assassinations and floundering wars abroad nearly brought the nation to its knees. By John Kuroski.

I’ve long been taken aback by the readiness of some leading left intellectuals to downplay the role of state violence in the enforcement of social hierarchy and class rule inside the United States… By Paul Street.

There may be a looming showdown in the coming days in the already contentious demonstrations in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Local authorities have issued a mandatory evacuation order for the site near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation where hundreds of activists are camping out in protest of the controversial crude oil pipeline. Those who have not cleared out by Monday could be arrested, authorities said.

Against the grim footage of unjust deaths, iconic images of protesters project power and will. By Teju Cole. (July 26, 2016)

The fire of resistance is burning strong in Istanbul but as photographer Emine Gozde Sevim finds, the drive for a life of freedom extends beyond boundaries.

The encampment set up to protest a pipeline in North Dakota is now more of a small town, and it’s not going anywhere. By Hilary Beaumont.