Mark the weekend of April 16-18 on your calendar. Democracy is awakening!

We are in a crucial time for political change, but this can only happen if we work together. This April, we plan to make our voices heard once and for all. Join us for multiple rallies across the nation and help bring true democracy back to America!

— Brave New Films

Democracy Awakening 2016

In April 2016, more than 200 organizations representing a diverse array of movements and hundreds of thousands of people are coming together to demand a democracy that works for all of us – a nation where our votes are not denied  and money doesn’t buy access and power. Join us as we converge upon Washington, D.C. for an array of actions, including demonstrations, teach-ins, direct action trainings, music, a Rally for Democracy, and pressing for a Congress of Conscience through non-violent direct action and advocacy…

Photo: Arnaldo Saldanha

Note from BW of Brazil: Featured in a previous post, the protests throughout Brazil calling for the end of the Dilma Rousseff presidency captured international headlines last week but several facets of the demonstrations revealed several things about Brazil. They showed that 1) Brazilians are fed up with political corruption, 2) The protests were mostly led by the middle to upper classes and 3) These classes are still mostly white. “Where are the black protesters?” was a question that arose from similar protests against Rousseff in protests of March 2015.

Well, the fact is that it is the mostly poor, black classes that have benefited most from policies initiated by the PT (Rousseff’s Workers’ Party that has ruled the country since 2003) over the past 13 years (a voting block that carried Dilma to a second term in the 2014 election) And as…

March 22 is World Water Day. The 2016 theme is ?Better water, better jobs.?

The power of water and jobs ? transforming people’s lives. Half of all workers on Earth are employed in water-related sectors. Millions of them are unrecognized and unprotected. ? UN-Water

Yea! Everyone is for better jobs. So, here?s a gentle United Nations (UN) video-reminder to multinational corporations that they should not abuse the human rights of their workers. Allow me to say it more plainly: Exploiting people and/or the environment for profit is shameful; it?s stealing.

Exploitation is a shameful practice when it occurs in small, poor nations halfway around the world. It is no more shameful when it occurs in Kentucky coalfields, on Native American reservations, or in Flint, Michigan ? it?s only closer to home.

But let?s not get all weepy.

World Water Day is intended to heighten awareness of ordinary people throughout the world…

A poignant protest from outer space.

Last night, after getting the good news about Tate, the Science Museum became the target of anti-BP action. BP has been sponsoring the “Cosmonauts” exhibition – so we decided to project images from space of BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill onto the museum…

A member of staff who helped get the money from BP happened to be passing and agreed with us – BP has “always been a filthy company”. Check out this short film of our projection protest and share if you agree that it’s time the Science Museum – like Tate – broke up with BP for good!

This projection protest was a collaboration between BP or not BP?, Progressive Science Institute and Feral X

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