Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) is “a nonprofit organization that works for social justice and sustainability” by fostering great social impact through a variety of workshops and services. Their work helps folks develop relationship skills in organizations such as, “networks and coalitions, nonprofits (of all sizes), public sector agencies, schools and school systems, and [...]
Homeowners Fighting Back Against the Banks
Here’s how the banks are still doing exactly as they please when it comes to homes. But there’s hope. It’s been five years since the bursting of the housing bubble kicked off the financial crisis that shook the world. And in those years, the banks received trillions in bailouts and ultra-low-interest loans while millions of [...]
Creating Community | Lessons from Occupy
Written & contributed by Shepherd Bliss Occupy Wall Street (OWS) began using public space in New York’s Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, which stimulated hundreds of similar encampments around and beyond the United States. During the past six months, this mass movement has been assaulted by police and by the corporate media. It has also [...]
Milk Not Jails
To help solve an economic crisis, an organization in Upstate New York proposed a combination of dairy products and ex-cons. What’s plentiful in upstate New York? Cows and prison inmates, to name a few things. Reformists in the two communities don’t make natural allies, but organizer Lauren Melodia is trying to do just that. “I [...]
Rockwood Leadership Institute | Supporting Leaders in Leadership
Founded in 2000, Rockwood Leadership Institute’s mission is to provide individuals, organizations and networks in the social benefit sector with powerful and effective training in leadership and collaboration.
ACRJ | A Holistic Stance for Reproductive Justice
ACRJ (Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice) defines reproductive justice as “the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic, and social well-being of women and girls,” a holistic way of approaching reproductive rights. And because there is no way to separate reproductive rights from that which affects them including, health care, the environment and social justice nor [...]
End of Occupy?
Original article, “Occupying the Nation’s Attention, If Not It’s Cities,” on NPR Web site written by Scott Neuman, posted February 1, 2012. Occupy woke us up to the blatant truth about the relationship between the haves and the have nots. And although the tents are gone, as Scott Neuman writes in this article, the movement [...]
Zaltho Foundation | Seeds of Peace
Founded in 1994 by Claude AnShin Thomas, the Zaltho Foundation, headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts (with a meditation center in Mary Esther, Florida) is a spiritually-based foundation committed to ending violence by encouraging and establishing socially engaged projects in communities, organizations, and families, with an emphasis on the most important ingredient, the individual. When Claude AnShin [...]
China’s Migrant Children
Original article, “Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration,” in YES! magazine written by Lily Yeh, dated November 18, 2011 . From 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 in 2003 brought me together [...]
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 she rises and nestles into his chest, occasionally spitting up a white, milky substance over his dark shirt. This evokes memories, as well as a [...]
Practical Tips for Occupiers
However you are supporting the Occupy movement, by camping, protesting or some other means, here are a few supportive links to help you keep keepin’ on. (On December 6th Occupy protestors will begin Occupying foreclosed homes with the intention of making this the next step in the movement: Occupy Wall Street Goes Home.) Resources for [...]
Occupy: Four Ideas for What’s Next
Original post written by Josh Healey for Oakland Local and posted November 22, 2011. Josh Healey makes some very thoughtful and important points about the Occupy Movement and offers ideas about where it could go next. From the massive student strike at OccupyCal in Berkeley to the police crackdown of the OccupyWallStreet movement’s birthplace in New York City and dozens of [...]