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Environmental activist arrested during French Quarter Fest

Longtime environmental activist Luke Fontana was arrested by New Orleans police Friday (April 13) during the French Quarter Festival. The 78-year-old president of Save Our Wetlands Inc. said he was handcuffed and hauled away by officers for soliciting new ... read more

Preachers Arrested During Southern Decadence New Orleans Gay Pride Party Plan To Sue For Right To Protest

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Nine preachers and activists who were arrested on Sept. 1 after they allegedly yelled slurs during the Southern Decadence gay pride festival plan to sue ... in the city's storied French Quarter. The law, passed in 2011, prohibits "any ... read more

'If we're attacked, we'll die together,' a teenage anti-mining activist told her family. But when the bullets came, they killed only her

Topacio formed her own anti-mining youth group, wrote protest songs and toured the country talking about the environmental risks she believed the mine posed to her community. During a school ... anti-mining activists were arrested. Rotondo fled to Peru ... read more

Activists on the street have the last word in Paris

The terrorist attacks in the city last month spurred the French government to impose a state of emergency and ban public demonstrations. Originally, environmental ... and no arrests were made. But as late as Friday night, activists intending to ... read more

17 powerful ways people protested in 2015

Animal rights activists protested the famous San Fermín festival in Pamplona ... that popped up throughout the city during the summer. Protesters in Srinagar, however, were defiant throughout the year, leading to arrests when the colorful water did ... read more

Virginia Key, first ‘colored only’ beach in Miami during Jim Crow era, celebrates 70 Years

Police were called but were instructed by local government officials not to cite or arrest them. As a way to ease race restrictions in recreational places, the county chose the Atlantic-facing area of Virginia Key shortly after the wade-in, to become ... read more

Clemency: The issue that Obama and the Koch brothers actually agree on

The onetime rapper from Utah was sentenced in 2004 to a mandatory 55 years in federal prison after he was arrested for selling a total of ... he gave a shout-out to the Koch brothers in a speech during an NAACP conference. “This is a cause that’s ... read more

PR Implosions: How Four Marketers Answered Calamity

Operating profit in the second quarter hit $12.7 billion ... And Chipotle had other issues to contend with, including Crumpacker's arrest on cocaine charges, an activist investor buying shares, shuttering its small ShopHouse Asian chain and board shakeups ... read more

In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2015

During his distinguished career ... he captured the famous image of the body of Steve Bikko, an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Franjola died Jan. 1, he was 72. London-based fashion photographer Christopher Dadey was known as one of the best ... read more