Music can tell truths that otherwise go unheard, inspiring action, and sustaining resistance.
Social Justice
The Campaign of Conscience joins North Americans who oppose the war in Iraq. They organize acts of civil disobedience and continue to provide humanitarian aid to Iraqis.
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and actor Danny Glover talks about his lifelong activism.
Innovation, insight, and knowledge from the 20th century could inspire social transformation in the 21st.
The Veterans of Hope Project brings together veterans of the civil rights movement with young activist to explore links between religion and social transformation.
The Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington, D.C.
for first time juvenile offenders aims to keep first offenders
from becoming hardened criminals.
the War on Drugs: the social cost of the drug war and the people in and out of the criminal justice system who are calling for an end to war.
Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
Two perspectives on a talking circle about racism held following the WTO protests in Seattle.
The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice.
Amber Gallup reports from the IMF/World Bank protests in Washington, DC.
The most dramatic confrontations took place on November 30 (N30), when thousands of protesters blocked WTO delegates from reaching the meeting. Author Paul Hawken was among them.
Why were all those people in the streets? Reporters and pundits who covered the WTO recited the free-trade mantra but knew nothing of its real-world impact. Then there’s the small matter of who owns the media
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