Activism

Based on Brennan Center proposal, bill would restore voting rights to 4.4 million Americans.

Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff

Social change movements want to fix a world dominated by exploitative relationships. Most social change theory aims at fixing particular systems, practices, toolkits, etc. Theory that works from the …

Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.

Both social movements and electoral movements are imperative for nonviolent social change and should work together, says Green Party member Michael Trudeau.

Although his landmark book is now nearly 45 years old, the principles that emerged from Alinsky's work have influenced every generation of community organizers since.

Members of the union representing teaching assistants, associate instructors and undergraduate tutors across the University of California system went on strike for two days last week over working conditions …

While some still believe the United States is the greatest democracy on Earth, the US is actually a plutocracy, a government ruled by the wealthiest.

In Afghanistan, Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers plant trees, not bombs.

“Intersectionality” is a way of thinking holistically about how different forms of oppression interact in people's lives, and movements need to use it.