Three years ago, they started a program to keep salvageable goods from landfills by harnessing the community’s collective skills to fix them.
To protect vital wetlands, the Ojibwe tribe and local scientists and activists pressured industry to abandon plans for what would have harmed thousands of species of plants and animals.
Florida’s Miccosukee is the first tribe allowed to run its own school, where students fully participate in family and cultural activities.
Federal recognition offers financial help, and those tribes without it have “second-class status in Indian Country” and remain vulnerable to local authorities.
There’s an argument to be made that progressives are lucky Bernie Sanders didn’t win the nomination.
The landscape of these indigenous-led kitchens that feed thousands of water protectors is dynamic, much like the ad hoc camps that depend upon them.
As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.
In an industry usually focused on medicine and procedures, a Philadelphia-area hospital decided what its patients needed was a farm and advice about food.
The proposal will be voted on next month and could have broader implications to ensure the city partners with socially responsible businesses.
We've been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.
The nation’s only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it’s being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?
The documentary “We the People 2.0” looks at why the rights of neighborhoods and cities are essential to building a better world.
And two other grandmas we love expanding health care in their communities.
What We the People lost when the Constitution gave monarchical power to a small band of unelected people in robes.
After 35 years of fighting for the cancellation of nearly 50 oil and gas leases, Montana's Blackfeet tribe scored an unexpected victory when Devon Energy voluntarily backed out of their claims.
Taking a lesson from Standing Rock, we must be careful with language while working toward progress in the Trump years.
Opposing a pipeline, residents in Waterville, Ohio, passed a new law to protect their right to clean air, water, and soil.
Five states where communities are ensuring immigrant rights and wellness.
In a moment like this, direct action needs to call attention to a moral crisis that demands intervention, much like what we're seeing at Standing Rock.
As we work toward a post-fossil fuel society, we can look to these lessons from the Sioux.
Detroit-area resident Shamayim Harris bought several properties and is now converting them into sustainable community spaces for education, wellness, and economic development.
From Idaho to Georgia, people found ways to offer sanctuary and legal protection.
Author Chuck Collins discusses growing up in the 1 percent, his unusual approach to fighting economic inequality, and what progressives need to do during a Trump administration.
When a governmental effort to encourage cash crops threatened their food security and native land, India’s indigenous families came together to revive their traditional food systems.
The whole pipeline fiasco was a more appropriate story for the 19th century instead of the 21st. Now, the timing is ideal for a new beginning: #HealNorthDakota
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