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  • Activism
    The 1970 Women's Strike: A Bit of History
    March 8, 2017
    | Lynn Sherr
    Fifty years after the 19th (the Suffrage) Amendment had passed, tens of thousands of American women abandoned their husbands, their desks, their typewriters and their waitress stations to march down the avenues in a number of cities to press for a new set of issues.
  • Activism
    Solidarity — Plus 10 Other Reasons Women Showed Up to March
    January 22, 2017
    | Hannah Norman
    The Women’s March on Washington illustrated the wide variety of issues women are concerned about in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
  • Democracy & Government
    A Note From Bill Moyers
    January 22, 2017
    Bill recommends reading this essay by a retired professor who writes that in order to save democracy from its greatest challenge, we must continue marching.
  • Activism
    Organizing in a Right-Wing Context
    January 19, 2017
    | Sarah Jaffe
    Sarah Jaffe speaks with Kali Akuno, co-director of Cooperation Jackson, about what his organization is planning as Donald Trump takes office.
  • Activism
    Activists Around the World Take #NoDAPL Fight to the Banks
    December 2, 2016
    | Nika Knight
    Global demonstrations are calling on banks to divest from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, citing human rights abuses against water protectors.
  • Activism
    It's Time for a Poor People's Movement
    November 11, 2016
    | Michelle Wilde Anderson
    Inside the Occupy, Black Lives Matter and Trump movements, there is powerful shared terrain. A coalition must be built that cuts across racial groups, and our deep urban and rural divides.
  • Activism
    Why Frances Moore Lappé Is Taking on Democracy Reform
    November 11, 2016
    | Kathy Kiely
    "A democracy movement is the only way to address the very real wrongs that are happening," says the author of Diet for a Small Planet.
  • Democracy & Government
    Experiencing the Thrill of Democracy
    June 15, 2016
    | Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
    Two Democracy Spring marchers consider their next steps.
  • Activism
    Seattle’s Lessons for Sanders Activists After the Election
    June 13, 2016
    | Steve Early
    A new book offers some pointers on taking the Vermont senator's revolution to the local level.
  • Activism
    A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
    January 20, 2016
    | Bill Moyers
    Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.


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