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#civil disobedience
  • Letters From an American
    The Lights Are Off in the White House
    May 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    In all this confusion, it feels like the lines are becoming clearer between those determined to reclaim fairness and equality before the law in America, and those determined to destroy civil society altogether.
  • Inequality
    Martin Luther King’s Fight for Workers’ Rights
    September 3, 2017
    | Peter Dreier
    This Labor Day let’s remember that King was committed to building bridges between the civil rights and labor movements.
  • Activism
    Voices from the Front of Health Care Civil Disobedience
    July 18, 2017
    | Sarah Jaffe
    Housing Works activist Jaron Benjamin was one of the 80 people arrested on Capitol Hill last week. And he's there again today. He explains why he believes people need to keep speaking out.
  • History
    Anti-Politics and Disorientation: The Age of Trump
    June 8, 2016
    | Henry Giroux
    Choosing between the "lesser of two evils" to lead a country doesn't eliminate inequalities in America.
  • War & Peace
    May's the Month for Protest. Dan Berrigan Would Agree.
    May 6, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    The Jesuit writer and activist's death is a reminder of the necessity and power of protest in America.
  • Activism
    What I Learned Marching With Democracy Spring
    April 13, 2016
    | Frances Moore Lappé
    The political march is a tool for social transformation in itself. This one gave me a taste of the connected, empowered society I’m working to create.
  • Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity
    November 29, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    In a rare television interview, this visionary author, environmentalist and farmer discusses a sensible, but no-compromise plan to save the Earth.
  • Voices of Nonviolence
    July 25, 2013
    Words of wisdom from Nelson Mandela, Maidred Maguire, John Lewis, Tim DeChristopher, Grace Lee Boggs and James Cone.
  • Bringing Young and Old to the Climate Fight
    May 8, 2013 | Group Think

    It always seems to me that different groups can bring different things to the climate fight — not completely different, but subtly so, in ways that reflect the diversity of our society. So, for instance, young people have been crucial leaders of this battle from the beginning, which makes a lot of sense. I’ll be dead before global warming gets to its absolute worst (though it’s already pretty bad — my home state of Vermont nearly ...

  • Anti-Fracking Activist Released From Jail
    April 30, 2013
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    In this exclusive video shot outside the jail, watch Steingraber's supporters greet her with flowers, cheers and song.


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