The Unlikely Catholic Activist Who Believed in Civil Disobedience ‘Animated by Love’

Dorothy Day’s Legacy Continues to This Day Through Followers Like Martin Gugino, the 75-Year-Old Protestor Shoved by Buffalo Police

On June 5, 2020, in the midst of a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest in Buffalo, New York, 75-year-old Martin Gugino, a longtime peace activist, approached a line of riot police to hand over an officer’s helmet that had dropped to the ground. He was pushed to the sidewalk by the riot police, who then proceeded to walk around him as he lay unconscious, bleeding profusely from his ear, on the concrete. When an officer attempted to bend down to see how badly Gugino was hurt, another officer pushed him …

by John Loughery | June 17, 2020

This Is What Outrage Looks Like in Mexico City

Images of the Protestors Who Took to the Streets to Ask Their Government for Accountability—and an End to Violence

November 8, 2014

Mexicans have taken to social media, and to the streets, to express their outrage at the disappearance in late September of 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in the …

Burned by Betrayal and 87 Rounds of Tear Gas in Hong Kong

When Civil Disobedience Turned Violent, a City's Long-Held Trust in Its Police Was Broken

by Bon Cheng and Yvonne Chiu | October 17, 2014

On Sunday, September 28, 2014, we stood among the estimated 80,000 Hong Kong protestors in the Admiralty neighborhood that hosts the government headquarters, when tear gas began raining down on …

Why Is Brazil Going Nuts?

The Protests Are As Confounding As the Country. And Yes, Traffic Here Is Terrible.

by Rolf Rauschenbach | July 1, 2013

My wife and I live two and a half miles from my office at the Universidade de São Paulo. But there is no quick way to complete the commute. São …

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