Community Action
When the community speaks, people listen. From protests to boycotts, people are making their voices heard all over the South.
Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal
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May 10, 2013
Residents of Appalachia brought over 100 gallons of polluted drinking water to the Washington, D.C. offices of the Environmental Protection Agency this week to call attention to...
FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and lynching
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March 8, 2013
By Jacquelyn Hall
A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure magazine reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Texas suffragist Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass...
Life after coal: Does Wales point the way?
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March 5, 2013
By Tom Hansell and Patricia Beaver, The Daily Yonder
"Communities always change, industries come and go. It was foolish of us to think at the end of the 1985 miners strike...
Moving forward on climate this Sunday
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February 13, 2013
By Chris Carnevale, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
This Sunday, February 17, will see the largest climate rally in history. More than 20,000 participants are expected to...
Thousands march for economic justice in North Carolina
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February 11, 2013
On Saturday, Feb. 9, thousands of people from across North Carolina gathered in the state capital of Raleigh to rally for economic and social justice. The event was the seventh...
In Walmart and fast food, unions scaling up a strike-first strategy
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February 5, 2013
By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes
Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last fall set the labor movement abuzz and gained new respect for...
From the Southern Exposure Archives: With the People
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January 18, 2013
Interview with James Orange by Bob Hall
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Southern Exposure, the print magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, the...
A New Year for the South
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December 31, 2012
A New Year is coming -- what kind of future do you want for the South?
It's an exciting moment. The face of the South is changing, with new, diverse communities growing across...
Longshoremen shut down S.C. shipping terminal in protest over deadly fire at Bangladesh Walmart supplier
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December 20, 2012
By Kerry Taylor
Longshoremen shut down the Wando Welch Shipping Terminal at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina for nearly two hours today to protest the arrival of the...
Protest planned for S.C. port over shipment of clothes from deadly Bangladesh factory
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December 19, 2012
A picket is planned for Thursday, Dec. 20 at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina where garments made in the Bangladesh factory where over 100 workers died in a fire last...
Out of the Bangladesh tragedy may come global worker solidarity
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December 13, 2012
By Joe Atkins, Labor South
The horrible tragedy at the Tazreen garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, may become a milestone in the development of true global solidarity among...
Giving Tuesday: Support a voice for a better South!
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November 27, 2012
Giving Tuesday started out as a simple idea: We have a day for giving thanks and two days for getting deals (Black Friday and Cyber Monday). How about a day for giving back to the...
With historic strikes underway and Black Friday protests planned, Walmart files complaint against union
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November 19, 2012
Walmart filed an unfair labor practice charge last week against the United Food and Commercial Workers union, asking the National Labor Relations Board to block efforts to disrupt...
With election over, the Peoples' First 100 Days begins
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November 7, 2012
Back in September, over 250 grassroots community leaders from throughout the South came together at the Southern Movement Assembly in Lowndes County, Ala. and launched a campaign...
One woman's fight for the right to vote (video)
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November 6, 2012
Tayna Fogle is a former University of Kentucky basketball team captain whose crack cocaine addiction led to a 10-year prison sentence.
After serving her time, Fogle was shocked...
Keystone XL pipeline blockaders face arrests, lawsuits in Texas
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October 22, 2012
By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf
If TransCanada has its way, almost 1.1 million barrels of tar sands oil -- the world's dirtiest, most toxic, and most difficult-to-clean-up-...
Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in Texas
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October 3, 2012
A nonviolent direct action is underway in Texas seeking to block construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline planned to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast...
Special Report: Mapping influence in North Carolina
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September 24, 2012
Every day, groups across the political spectrum jostle to get their issues heard and influence lawmakers. Who are the biggest influence groups? How are they connected to each...
Southern Workers Assembly coming to Charlotte on Labor Day
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August 20, 2012
By Joe Atkins, Labor South
A call to action has gone out to make this Labor Day, Sept. 3, also the opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., truly a...
Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill dispersants
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August 8, 2012
A coalition of fishing, conservation, wildlife and public health groups based in the Gulf Coast and Alaska has filed a citizen lawsuit under the federal Clean Water Act to force...
Video documents miner, state police harassment of mountaintop removal protesters in West Virginia
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August 2, 2012
Activists are calling for a federal investigation of police brutality for actions during a July 28 mountaintop removal mining protest in rural Lincoln County, W.Va.
One of 20...
In Tennessee, new grassroots organizing efforts seek social justice
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August 1, 2012
By Joe Atkins, Labor South
The old, tired image of the laid-back Southerner too happy and content with his lot to protest is being laid to rest -- again -- in Tennessee, where...
Youth activists infiltrate Florida immigrant detention center, find people wrongly held
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July 31, 2012
Activists with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance intentionally placed themselves in deportation proceedings in order to enter the Broward Transitional Center, an immigration...
Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds
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July 30, 2012
Protests are heating up over mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia at the same time new scientific evidence has emerged of the damage such surface mining is causing to human...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Protesting BP's Olympic greenwash
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July 27, 2012
Number of people arrested last week following a protest at the Olympic Clock in London's Trafalgar Square, where activists posing as representatives of BP and other notorious...
