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8 Courageous Things Harry Potter Fans Did to Fight Real-Life Dark Forces

If Harry Potter were a real person, he鈥檇 fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry's fans have taken his values from the page to the real world.

Katrina Rabeler | Nov 23, 2013

Activism | Citizens United

Six of the Top Ten U.S. Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons

The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.

John Cavanagh, Robin Broad | Nov 23, 2013

Activism

The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For

What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice鈥攊n real life.

Leigh Finke | Nov 23, 2013

Activism

“Beauty Feeds a Different Kind of Hunger”: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams

"I used to ask the question, 'Am I an activist or a writer?' I don't ask that anymore. I am simply a human being engaged."

Devon Fredericksen | Nov 22, 2013

Activism

Art for the Sky

Daniel Dancer's Art For the Sky is a unique, team-building activity for schools and special events. These enchanting creations on acres of land are a whole-body way of stimulating imagination and understanding the interconnection of people and all life.

| Nov 19, 2013

Activism

Two Years After the Eviction of OWS, Here’s 5 People Keeping the Movement Alive

Two years ago today, when Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park, many wondered what was next for the movement. Two years later, we profile five projects that got their starts in the encampments and are still making change today.

Ann Kathleen Bradley | Nov 16, 2013

Native rights | Mental health

How a Small California Town Curbed a Teen Suicide Epidemic鈥擝y Talking About It

Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for 10- to 14-year-olds in rural America, and Native American kids are hit the hardest. After Indian Valley lost its sixth teenager, residents started talking about suicide out in the open鈥攁nd it's working.

Jane Braxton Little | Nov 12, 2013

Activism

Why Is It So Hard to Find Films Where Women Actually Talk to Each Other? How Sweden鈥檚 Making It Easier

Four Stockholm cinemas are adopting a system that rates films on how deeply their female characters are developed鈥攁nd how much they interact. It could radically change the way we see movies.

Leigh Finke | Nov 9, 2013

This 80-Year-Old Grandma Walked Hundreds of Miles to Retrace the Underground Railroad

And 14 other grannies who are shaking up the world.

Katrina Rabeler | Nov 9, 2013

Keep Washington Beautiful - No Coal Exports

Activism | Citizens United

How the Voters of One Small County May Have Stopped 48 Million Tons of Coal

In a council election unlike any other in the history of Whatcom County, voters sided with representatives believed to be against a proposed coal export facility.

Ray Stoeve | Nov 7, 2013

Activism | Citizens United

Four Signs that Regular Folks Can Still Win (and One That Shows the Power of Money)

Here are four cases in yesterday's election where people power won out over corporate interests. And one that went the other way.

Sarah van Gelder | Nov 7, 2013

Activism

Meet the Comic Book Artist Fighting Back Against Rape Culture

Comics artist Tess Fowler has a second great talent鈥攃ommunicating about misogyny through social media. Warning: This article contains accounts of sexual assault and may be triggering to some people.

Leigh Finke | Nov 2, 2013

Activism

Three Elephants Head from Zoo to 80-Acre Sanctuary

A specialist in animal psychology sees the decision as evidence of progress in understanding between species.

Cynthia Daniel | Nov 2, 2013

Activism

10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmental Superhero

Movies have long helped us understand what it means to live on earth and contribute to an ecologically sustainable planet. Here are ten of our favorites.

Leigh Finke | Oct 26, 2013

Activism

Meet the New Climate Heroes: Faces of the Frontline

Not all of these young people focus directly on climate change in their work. But it tends to take a prominent position in their worldview, which sees issues of race, class, labor, and environment as inextricably connected.

Kristin Moe | Oct 26, 2013

Blackfish still. Photo by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.

Activism

“Blackfish” on CNN: Documentary about Captive Orca Whales Goes Mainstream

The public reaction to a documentary about captive orca whales showed an empathy we don't usually associate with TV audiences.

James Trimarco | Oct 25, 2013

Activism

50 Years On, Dylan’s “Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” Still Speaks Truth to Power

New generations of singers continue to adapt the song to talk about how injustice plays out in cases like those of Trayvon Martin and Rachel Corrie.

Erika Lundahl | Oct 24, 2013

Native rights

Can Fracking Showdown on Native Land Help Break Canada’s Cycle of Colonialism?

When members of the Elsipogtog First Nation attempted to prevent seismic testing on their land that could lead to fracking, armed police appeared and violence ensued. Here, indigenous writer and academic Leanne Simpson puts the issue into context.

Leanne Simpson | Oct 24, 2013

Native rights | Activism

A Win for Indigenous History at Columbia University

Students in Columbia's Native American Council think the University could do more to acknowledge indigenous history, and they're helping to make it happen.

Nur Lalji | Oct 23, 2013

Activism

Why the Climate Movement Should Have No “Keystone”

We must call for what we really need鈥攁n end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction.

Arielle Klagsbrun, David Osborn, Kirby Spangler, Maryam Andragi | Oct 22, 2013

Local economies

Can Eminent Domain Be Used to Avert a Foreclosure Mess? This California City Thinks So

Governments usually use eminent domain powers to displace people. But one hardscrabble Bay Area city is going to the mat to do just the opposite鈥攕tabilize its economy and keep residents where they are.

Mark Andrew Boyer | Oct 19, 2013

Protest at Columbia University. Photo by Tristin Moone.

Native rights

Decolonize the Holidays: An Alternative to Columbus Day (and Canadian Thanksgiving)

Three states have already dropped Columbus Day, while a movement begins to celebrate Indigenous Peoples鈥� Day instead.

Ray Stoeve | Oct 16, 2013

Renewable energy | Activism

Pro-Coal Kids’ Pages Pulled from Government Site as Public Pressure Increases

Two sections that essentially told kids that coal was safe and good for the environment disappeared today from the website of a state agency in Illinois.

Jeff Biggers | Oct 15, 2013

Rosa Linarez. Photo by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern.

Sustainable food and farming

Market Offers Wealth of Tradition鈥攁nd Veggies鈥攆or Immigrant Farmers and Shoppers

Many Latino immigrants have agriculture in their past. A market in suburban Maryland makes it possible for them to put that knowledge to work in the here and now.

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Sarah Meade | Oct 8, 2013

Emma Goldman street art. Photo by Dr. Case.

Activism

Why the Government Shutdown Is Not Anarchist Utopia

Real anarchists aren't just for abolition of the state. They're for a society in which ordinary people can freely and democratically govern themselves.

Nathan Schneider | Oct 4, 2013

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