New York City's newly approved budget allocates $1.2 million for developing and supporting worker-owned cooperative businesses.
“The ideas in Butler’s fiction challenge us to contend with our own choices and take responsibility for our own power.”
Moments of sadness are inevitable in a life filled with deep connections to other people.
Londoners have made their feelings clear about a corporate "solution" to the problem of homelessness—and the company listened.
With over one billion views on YouTube and counting, The Young Turks prove that successful, independent, online news is possible.
When it comes to stopping NSA surveillance, it may be more effective to write to Facebook and Google than to government officials.
Felipe Matos told his story in three words: "I am undocumented." It was an act of desperation—but it gave him a sense of agency and power.
Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003, but her passion for peace lives on in her writings.
The secret ingredient in Boston's prize winning tap water? Forest conservation.
Filling a void left by big city newspapers, online projects combine community news, journalism, and conversations with our neighbors.
When You Live in the Local Economy, Musicians Are Just People (And Cyndi Lauper Is Coming to Dinner)
After getting mad at her daughter for handing hard earned money to a street performer, "Radical Homemaker" Shannon Hayes considers what musicians bring to the local economy.
Low-power FM radio stations bring a much-needed focus on local issues and culture.
With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launch a national campaign to do just that.
These high school students created a series of podcasts to tell the stories of inspiring people in their community.
Earlier this year, a 7-year-old girl urged the toy company to “make more Lego girl people and let them go on adventures and have fun ok!?!” Here’s what they did.
For the movement to succeed, it must be led by the dispossessed—those for whom the mainstream economy has never worked.
They're not always optimistic about the future of Camden, N.J. But they're committed to it anyway, and they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.
They call themselves "nerdfighters"—and they're unlike any movement you've seen before.
Artists from Seattle's hip hop scene—including Macklemore and Ryan Lewis—speak about music's healing power.
Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
From Oakland to Brooklyn, practitioners of holistic health care are working to make their services affordable for all.
Ana Juárez started her first job at the age of fifteen, as a sewing operator’s assistant in Mexico. She was working at a local contracting company of global brands like Levi Strauss & Co. when senior workers began to organize.
When people tell their own stories, history is written from the bottom up.
The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
On Sunday, there is a break in the rain. There is a lot we could be doing in that break: painting beehives, knocking back the weeds around the grapes and
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