Presidential declarations and filmmakers' scare tactics get the attention—meanwhile, powerful grassroots movements build on 60 years of effort.
Democracy
Tell Me Your Stories connects young and older people through oral history interviews. Curriculum, interview templates, and other tools guide students through the interview process.
Facing judgment is a life skill that teachers can help their students learn, so they may deal with others' opinions—fair or not—with confidence.
What you can do, alone and with others, to share life.
The Experiences of Our Ancestors Offer Us Wisdom for Surviving Today's Crises.
By: Sanjay Khanna
Our School at Blair Grocery meets crises with open eyes, humble hearts, and social entrepreneurship.
When we share as much stuff as possible, we walk more lightly on the earth and often improve our quality of life.
Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina.
Frances Moore Lappé looks at redefining power and taking it back.
Around the world, people are taking control of their water supply.
A tiny Californian town took back its water supply—and your town can too.
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Burlington’s success with instant runoff voting (IRV) is a model of a clean, open debate. Is it time to take it to the national level?
Communities across the country are declaring citizens' right and duty to protect their water, land, local economy, and way of life, even if it means taking on the enormous power of corporations. Here are some of the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up.
Big corporation have become de facto governments, and the ethic that dominates corporations has come to dominate society. But, citizen movements are proving that we can take on corporate power, and together build a future that works for all life. This article gives hope on how to change the current corporate rule to citizen rule.
Latin America's marginalized are mobilizing and changing the face of their nations' politics. From increasing national oil profits to rethinking regional trade plans, they are empowering themselves and lessening their dependence on the U.S.
In a world where everything's for sale, we've forgotten that much of value happens outside the stream of commerce. Here's how we forgot--and how we're reclaiming the commons.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
In the 2004 election, more than 3 million
ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went,
but also provides an example of hopeful voting reform in New
Mexico.
Americans spend the most, get the least, and have no health care security. The solution is not that difficult.
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
They don't like the occupation or the militias, and they aren't signing up for any political or religious faction. Instead, these Iraqis want to live with their neighbors in peace.
In danger of losing their vote and voice, Americans are demanding a return to the founding principles.
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors—but it’s getting tougher
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors—all are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
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