A protest against union-busting at the 28th St and East Beltline Starbucks store in Grand Rapids, MI. A barista was recently fired in Grand Rapids for union organizing efforts.

The Grand Rapids Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) held a May Day press conference outside the East Grand Rapids branch of Starbucks. The Press Conference was part of an ongoing campaign to get Starbucks to recognize the union's legal right to organize their workers. The Grand Rapids chapter of the IWW is part of a legal case along with another union in New York that has been challenging Starbucks' anti-union practices.

A video documenting the March 15, 2008 protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan demanding an immediate end to the US occupation of Iraq. The protest was organized by ACTIVATE (Grand Rapids SDS).

In Part 1 of the Mediamouse.org interview with feminist and pornography critic Robert Jensen, Jensen discusses why he researches the impact of pornography and its impact on men, the frame of discussing pornography in terms of morality and religion, and Jensen's discussion of his personal history and relationship with pornography and masculinity. (1 of 4).

In Part 2 of the Mediamouse.org interview with feminist and pornography critic Robert Jensen, Jensen discusses the impact of watching pornography as a researcher and feminist critic, how one can discuss pornography as a form of media literacy, and sexuality and male domination. (2 of 4).

In Part 3 of the Mediamouse.org interview with feminist and pornography critic Robert Jensen, Jensen discusses the difficulties in confronting and overcoming masculinity, the realities of patriarchy, and how men and women respond to the notion of moving beyond masculinity and feminity. (3 of 4).

In Part 1 of the Mediamouse.org interview with author Benjamin Dangl on social movements in Bolivia, Dangl explores the last six or seven years of popular movements, the privatization of Bolivia's water by Becthel, and the response to the water privatization by the popular movements. (1 of 3).

In Part 4 of the Mediamouse.org interview with feminist and pornography critic Robert Jensen, Jensen discusses the challenges of bringing the feminist anti-pornography movement into the same level of immediacy in the left as the anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements. (4 of 4).

In Part 2 of the Mediamouse.org interview with author Benjamin Dangl on social movements in Bolivia, Dangl discusses Evo Morales and media coverage of Latin America and Bolivia. (2 of 3).

In Part 3 of the Mediamouse.org interview with author Benjamin Dangl on social movements in Bolivia, Dangl discusses the nationalization of Bolivia's natural resources, the privatization of water as it relates to struggles against water privatization in Michigan and the United States, and the role of hip-hop in Bolivia's social movements. (3 of 3).