Here are some of our favorite 2012 blog posts from adrienne maree brown. In them she talks about creating inner change, about Obama and the importance of practicing revolution every […]
Domestic Work Is An Act of Love
When the National Labor Relations Act was passed to protect the rights of workers in the US, “to win votes for the 1938 law from Southern lawmakers, President Franklin D. […]
More Answers to Your Questions About the Health Care Law
It has taken 100 years to get universal health coverage in the US. (The first president to try to get health care passed was Teddy Roosevelt, in 1912.) Now that […]
Where in the world can you get universal health care?
There were a lot of Facebook posts that joked about Republican flight to Canada now that Obama’s health care plan has passed. Canadians, of course, enjoy a universal health care […]
Map | The State of Marriage Equality in America
A more humorous take on the map of marriage equality in America. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama finally announced that he supports gay marriage. He emphasized that this is his personal opinion, […]
Game Over for the Climate
Climate change, oddly enough, is something you can believe in–or not. Whatever you believe, global warming is affecting us, and the changes are happening more rapidly than scientists originally expected. […]
Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage Wednesday, capping days of frenzied speculation about his views and intensifying pressure from gay campaign donors that began with surprising comments on the issue over […]
Stand Your Ground to Stop the Violence
Sarah van Gelder looks at the history of violence around people of color, particularly youth, and encourages us all to take a stand against violence. For far too long, violence […]
Marshall Ganz | Why Stories Matter
“A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. Most of our faith traditions interpret themselves as stories as they are teaching our hearts how to live as choiceful human beings.”
Harry Belafonte on Race & Politics Today
Belafonte has spent decades helping to lead reform movements around the world… His accumulated wisdom brings invaluable context to the ups and downs of electoral politics. Most importantly, Belafonte stresses…our concern must be with building a people-driven movement for justice, to which any elected official must respond.