Summer of Pride across North East to put activism and access before profit

OUT North East is uniting Sunderland, Gateshead and South Tyneside for a month-long Summer of Pride 2026, focusing on activism amid funding cuts.

Protests coupled with boycotts tend to be most effective at making governments change policies

History suggests that boycotts are uniquely suited to expand public participation enough to spur political change.
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America was born in protest. What’s changed 250 years later?

The founders called it “petitioning for redress.” Martin Luther King Jr. referred to it as “civil disobedience,” and his protégé, Rep. John Lewis, described it as “good trouble.” Whatever the term, ...
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Can Gen Z uprisings succeed where other protest movements failed?

Every generation has its protest moment. It was 1968 for the Boomers, with their student uprisings and civil-rights protests. It was the 1980s for Gen X, with their anti-apartheid and anti-nuclear ...
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People Who Don’t Show Up To Protests Are Often Helping In These 4 Equally Powerful Ways

Protests have been making the news a lot lately as Minnesotans take a stand against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their state, and other Americans have joined in around the ...