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  Hundreds of Amazon employees walk out over company's carbon footprint, in-person work policy

  Nearly 2,000 Amazon employees pledged to join a one-hour walkout Wednesday to protest the company’s environmental impact and workplace policies. About 915 of them are based in Seattle, according to organizers of the demonstration.
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  Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas

  Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.

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  'We've got to do it together.' Skyway residents unite against gun violence

  In a grocery store parking lot in Skyway today, dozens linked arms to show unity and in one voice chanted, “I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper.”

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  These students protested racism and sexual violence. They say school officials responded with retaliation

  In January, students at Olympia's River Ridge High School came together for a week-long protest. The high school’s Black Student Union, joined by allies, called for district administrators to address racial and sexual violence on campus. Now, the Black Student Union is considering filing a class action lawsuit against North Thurston Public Schools for alleged retaliation by school officials.
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  New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations

  ‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’
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  Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own

  ‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’
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  3 Seattle activists on the city's future for #BlackLivesMatter

  It’s been six weeks since protests started in Seattle, after the police killing of George Floyd. Now leaders of the local movement for racial justice are calling for changes to combat police brutality and systemic racism. Here's what they see next.
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  Seattle police use tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protesters

  Black Lives Matter activists have been organizing protests in Seattle for multiple days since the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis. What start out as peaceful protests of racial injustice have ended with police dispersing crowds with multiple non-lethal weapons.
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  Gen Z teens on balancing growing up with saving the world

  Two teens share an hour of stories created by young people, and discuss the balance between teen activism and just being a kid.
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  That’s a wrap! RadioActive’s 2019 podcast season

  In 2019 RadioActive Youth Media worked with about 750 teens and tweens through our Intro, Advanced, and Community workshop programs. These young people produced 23 full-length feature radio stories, along with dozens of short radio stories and podcasts. Young people's voices and perspectives are not heard enough in the media - that's why RadioActive exists. Missed some of this year's incredible feature stories? Give them all a listen here.

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