Category: activist

It Pays to Be an Activist 

Commentary Do you recall the shrieking undergrad at Yale, the one yelling at professor Nicholas Christakis on the quad? As the professor spoke calmly to dozens of students surrounding him, at one point she commanded him to shut up, tossed a few f-words at him, and wondered how he ever got his faculty post in…


China Insider: Leading Hong Kong Dissidents Charged With Subversion

Forty-seven Hong Kong activists were charged on Feb. 28 with conspiracy to commit subversion, in the largest single clampdown on the city’s pro-democracy opposition under a Beijing-imposed “national security law.”


Charges Dropped Against Activist Who Exposed Iowa Hog Deaths

IOWA CITY, Iowa—Prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against an activist who helped secretly record Iowa’s largest pork producer using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year as the pandemic devastated the industry. Matt Johnson, an activist with the group Direct Action Everywhere, had been scheduled to stand trial in Grundy County, Iowa, on Monday…


Video: Live Q&A: BLM Activist Charged for Storming Capitol; Trump Declassifies Russia-gate Documents

Investigations are still ongoing into the storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, and authorities have now charged Black Lives Matter activist John Earle Sullivan who legally entered the building and was recorded encouraging crimes. Also, journalist John Solomon is reporting that Trump has ordered the declassification of Russiagate documents, including debriefings of Christopher…