Peace and Justice

The Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy
by Fran Korten
Oct 26, 2017
And she has a plan to do it.
How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege
by Chris Moore-Backman
Oct 25, 2017
What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
No More White Saviors: Let People Lead Their Own Movements
by Aura Bogado
Oct 24, 2017
Activists who come to command without listening to those they’re ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
New Documentary Remembers Standing Rock in Beauty and Catastrophe
by Kelly Hayes
Oct 23, 2017
“The Standing Rock I knew was not a mystical place with a uniform perspective. It was a complex place—an experiment in love, hope, courage, and solidarity.”
New Federal Guidelines For Campus Assault Put Heavy Burden on Victims
by Adam Lynch
Oct 20, 2017
College administrators worry a more rigorous process for proving sexual assault could send the wrong message to students.
The Essential Ingredient of Democracy
by Frances Moore Lappé, Adam Eichen
Oct 20, 2017
We need more than good-heartedness to save our democracy. We need the courage to act on it.
My Trouble With #MeToo
by Joanna Bock
Oct 19, 2017
We are limiting the potential of this campaign if we insist that everyone get in a box and become one of three things: perpetrators, victims, or allies.
6 Signs Your Callout Isn’t Actually About Accountability
by Maisha Z. Johnson
Oct 18, 2017
In many ways, holding each other accountable has come to mean punishing each other. Here’s how you can refocus on the bigger picture instead.
The New Co-op Helping Ex-Inmates Find Work—and Recover
by J. Gabriel Ware
Oct 18, 2017
Washington, D.C., has the highest incarceration rate in the country. That’s why Juan Reid launched this cooperative owned and operated by ex-inmates.
The High Cost of Free Speech on College Campuses
by Meredith Rutland Bauer
Oct 18, 2017
Public universities must walk a delicate line when it comes to upholding free speech in this charged political environment.
#SwipeItForward: Why People With Transit Passes Are Swiping in People Without
by Kevon Paynter
Oct 17, 2017
The campaign is working to end the criminalization of people who can’t afford subway fares—because no one should go to jail for $2.75.
How To Say No To Amazon
by Ellen Shepard
Oct 16, 2017
There are better ways to spend economic development dollars. Cities that bend over backward to lure the tech giant may end up on the losing end.
Fed Up With How Women Are Portrayed in Media, These Girls Started Their Own Radio Station
by Melissa Hellmann
Oct 16, 2017
A Boston radio station trains teens, helps them find their voice, and gives them a chance to be heard.
Van Jones’ “Messy Truth”: We’re All a Little Right, and We’re All a Little Wrong
by Zenobia Jeffries
Oct 13, 2017
Liberals and conservatives have too much in common—and too much at stake—to keep hiding behind differences.
Hospital Beats Federal Bureaucracy to Offer Local Traditional Foods
by Stephen Miller
Oct 11, 2017
A unique program in the Arctic tundra finds a way around federal regulation to put traditional foods on the hospital menu.