In this YES! magazine article, adapted from Lily Yeh’s book, Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms, learn about the hardships and successes of the children of China’s migrant workers. A chance meeting […]
Archives for 2011
Money From Above | Angell Foundation
Quoted text from the Angell Foundation Web site. The Angell Foundation (named after its founders David and Lynn Angell), funds organizations that support youth, education, spirituality, social justice, and the […]
The Good News for 2011
Original article written by Claudia Horwitz (with contributors: Erin Dale, Gita Gulati-Partee, Russell Herman, Claudia Horwitz, Margot Horwitz, Jennifer Jackson, Chad Jones, Sean Kosfosky, Becca Krantz, Danyelle O’Hara, Tema Okun, and […]
Grantmakers & Grantees | The Strong Survive
Grantmakers and grantees work in a symbiotic process to push forth one mission. For those of us in the social change arena that’s usually some form of social or environmental […]
On the Soft Underbellies of Mollusks…
1. I think I know the moment when I learned what love is. I was 22 years old. I was on my third or fourth date with the woman who […]
revolution in review | a year of change
transform. evolved from a simple newsletter (to) reflecting upon and lifting up the emerging field and movement that has become known as Transformative Social Change…these ten essays from the last year tell the tale of the movement that was (and is) to come.
The Day When Nothing Was Good Enough…
Once I was on a dating website. It was one of those ones that asks you a million questions and uses a complex algorithm to find matches. Better living through […]
quote | Ernesto “Che” Guevara
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Argentine Revolutionary
Bill Allowing Government to Shut Down Web sites
Considering all of the ways that the Internet has brought folks together, left people better informed, and fueled the Occupy movement’s growth, the idea that the government wants to control […]
Inside an Occupy Affinity Group
Written & contributed by Shepherd Bliss Our new Occupy Affinity Group (AG) recently met at “Mr. Mom’s” comfortable home. His four-month-old daughter mostly sleeps in a nearby swinging crib. Sometimes […]
If You Want to Be a Rebel, Be Kind
The police had declared Monday, November 14th of 2011 as the day of the raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment. It was the first Occupy site to call for a […]
newDharma Talk | The 2nd Noble Truth
In this dharma talk, we get a chance to understand the nuances of the Second Noble Truth as well as the various ways that we hang onto the things we’re […]