“Sometimes I imagine I’m going along and the Taliban stop me.
Malala Yousafzai, In Struggle
Posts Tagged: Activism
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Puerto Rico in Illinois
Students from Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago, IL pose in front of a mural.
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Pussy Riots Everywhere
Three members of girl band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail for reciting an anti-Putin “Punk Prayer” to the Virgin Mary last February at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
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Desegregation in Tennessee
Clinton, Tennessee — African-American teens walk through a tense crowd of white boys to enter the newly integrated Clinton High School.
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Freedom School!
Student activists at several Detroit public school have started a Freedom School in response to unjust suspensions and expulsions related to a joint student walk-out.
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Non-Violence Training
In 1960, photographer Eve Arnold traveled to Petersburg, Virginia to cover the Petersburg Improvement Association, a part of the non-violent protest movement happening in the South.