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.
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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 Mall of America Flash Mob for First Nations鈥� Rights
Hundreds of supporters of the Idle No More movement performed a Round Dance flash mob, one of many similar actions around the world to fight for indigenous land rights.
Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the City
How to create a world where people fly, salamanders text, and trash is useful.
鈥淵ou Are Safe With Us鈥�: How Ordinary Iraqis Rescued U.S. Civilians in the Midst of War
In 2003, Iraqi townspeople, having just lost their hospital in U.S. air strikes, saved the lives of three wounded U.S. peacemakers. Seven years later, the Americans returned鈥攖o thank them.
Pete Seeger: 鈥淵ou Stick Together 鈥橳il It鈥檚 Won鈥�
Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, 鈥淧ete Seeger: In His Own Words鈥� reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
Can U.S. Citizens End Israel鈥檚 Legal Impunity?
Each time international law has attempted to censure Israel for its recent violations of human rights, the United States has stepped in to stop the process. If anyone is in a position to do something about this, it鈥檚 the U.S. public.
Your Body is a Body of Water
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
Should Chiapas Farmers Suffer for California鈥檚 Carbon?
A California proposal would offset the state鈥檚 climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Alice Walker: 鈥淕o to the Places That Scare You鈥�
Why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.
Standing with Troy Davis in His Final Days
A year ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me鈥攁nd My Tribe
Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance.
8 Ways to De-Corporatize Your Money
Debit or credit? Keep your dollars out of corporate clutches.
Special Weapons for Fighting Corporate Giants
Revoke their charters, and other legal tools to hold corporations accountable to our laws.
Now, Let鈥檚 Occupy the Ballot
During election season, all eyes turn to politics. How do we ensure that the interests of the 99 percent are represented in the halls of power?
Change Now, Vote Later
Political answers will come when we build a network of solidarity and action that pushes on all fronts for a true democracy.
A Bold Win Against Big Oil
How people power stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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Americans Who Tell the Truth spotlights 170 portraits of truth tellers鈥攑eople who fought for all people's rights with courage and determination鈥攖o teach students of all ages not only about their heritage, but also to stand up for what they believe in.
Lily Yeh: Beauty in Broken Places
Healing war-torn, broken, and economically devastated communities through art.
Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America
Bringing renewable energy and jobs to reservations.
Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin: Doing the Impossible
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner accepted an appointment as U.S. poet laureate so he could offer just one simple warning.
The Innocence Project and Prison Food
Use the Innocence Project鈥檚 interactive resources to understand the causes of wrongful convictions and exonerations, and see how your school's cafeteria food measures up to prison food with this tell-it-like-it is infographic.
Visual Learning: “Out of many, one”
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the growing number of organizations dedicated to making this world a better place, and how art has a magical, powerful way of making bold statements.
Standing on the Side of Peace
How one man鈥檚 journey changed everything I knew about the Middle East conflict.
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