Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
It鈥檚 organic. It鈥檚 local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
Democracy
The Last of the Big Money Elections?
The movement to overturn Citizens United might just make 2012鈥檚 record election spending into the end of an era.
To Follow in MLK鈥檚 Footsteps, Join the Fight against Foreclosure
How can today鈥檚 Civil Rights leaders follow in the tradition of MLK? Lester Spence argues that foreclosures are the issue and the church may just be the solution.
The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People
Far from being a gimmick, having the U.S. Treasury mint high-denomination coins is a solution that cuts to the root of America鈥檚 financial problems. And Benjamin Franklin would have liked it, too.
Remembering Aaron Swartz, 鈥淎lpha Geek鈥� and Defender of Online Freedom
Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26, after years of legal trouble over academic articles he downloaded and intended to share. He leaves behind a legacy of thinking about the power of the internet to shape our political lives.
Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle
Teachers at two Seattle high schools violated district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation are ready to stand up, too.
Idle No More Rises to Defend Ancestral Lands鈥攁nd the Planet
Bill McKibben on the tradition of environmental activism he鈥檚 seen among members of First Nations, and the unique role of the Idle No More movement in the fight against climate change.
Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance for Clean Land and Water
In an urgent pursuit for environmental justice and basic human rights, First Nations gather across North America under the banner of Idle No More.
Idle No More: Indigenous Uprising Sweeps North America
Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what鈥檚 coming next?
A Feel-Good Movie about Fracking? 猫咪社区! Interviews Producer of 鈥淧romised Land鈥�
Chris Moore, who co-produced 鈥淕ood Will Hunting,鈥� has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Here, 猫咪社区! publisher Fran Korten gets Moore鈥檚 take on the ideas behind the film.
Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever
If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.
Remembering Rebecca Tarbotton
A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.
9 Stories That Will Change Your World in 2013
2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here鈥檚 how last year鈥檚 most important stories will shape 2013.
3 Ways to Make Your Vote Count in a Money-Soaked Election
Your favored candidates may be outspent, but if they out-organize, they may be able to prevail.
How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election
It won鈥檛 be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.
Dear Bank of America, We鈥檙e Not Leaving Our Homes
The fight against unjust evictions just got fiercer as the national Occupy movement joins forces with community anti-foreclosure groups.
猫咪社区! Recommends: StoryCorps
StoryCorps records and archives interviews of everyday Americans to preserve history and personal stories. Its National Teachers Initiative was created to celebrate great teachers and to highlight their invaluable contributions and influence on students and all of us.
Can There Be 鈥淕ood鈥� Corporations?
When companies are owned by workers and the community鈥攊nstead of Wall Street financiers鈥攅verything changes.
8 Ways to De-Corporatize Your Money
Debit or credit? Keep your dollars out of corporate clutches.
4 Ways to Flex Our Electoral Muscles
What we can do right now to strengthen our democracy.
Boulder Votes to Free Its Electric Company
Running their own utility means sun and wind energy instead of coal.
鈥淪ocial Security is Broke鈥濃�攁nd Other Corporate Scare Tactics
For years, corporations have been peddling myths to rally us behind their interests. Here are three things everyone 鈥渒nows,鈥� and why they're wrong.
The Corporation
Watch a new video about an eighth grade class using The Corporation film as a discussion starter. Share with your students using free curriculum from The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education.
De-Stress Your Classroom
Edutopia bundle of resources on meditation programs that can be used in school. Steps and benefits to bringing meditation to the classroom.
My Greatest Teaching Moment
High school history teacher Jesse Hagopian celebrates the moment when his students started making their own history.
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