Police have calmly arrested hundreds of people in Washington, D,.C. protesting the influence of money in politics during the last week, in what several participants described as a striking display of ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Another hundred protesters found themselves in handcuffs Wednesday as the U.S. Capitol saw its third consecutive day of rallies against political corruption. Though an uptick from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A dozen protesters against the role of money in politics have been arrested in U.S. Capitol’s iconic Rotunda, capping a week of “Democracy Spring” protests in Washington by a ...

Democracy Spring was a progressive social movement organization that uses campaigns of escalating nonviolent civil disobedience to build active public support to "end the corruption of big money in ...

Democracy is in trouble, despite popular uprisings and dynamic social movements in Lebanon, Hong Kong and across Europe and Latin America. Scholars say countries across the globe are experiencing a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It only took one decade. Ten years ago this month, democratic movements, ...

2016-04-11T13:31:29-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fb8/20160411135529002_hd.jpgProtesters with Democracy Spring held a sit-in at the steps of the U.S. Capitol ...