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  • Environment
    When a Community Says No to Big Oil
    February 20, 2021

    Over the last year, residents of South Memphis, Tennessee have fought to stop the construction of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline.

  • Activism
    Launching a 'Down-Ballot Revolution' in Chicago
    October 25, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    Amanda Weaver of Reclaim Chicago is working to recruit candidates for state and local office.
  • Democracy & Government
    Small-Town Progressives Pick Up the Pieces of Ohio's Dem Party
    March 30, 2017
    | Jack Shuler
    In rural communities and small cities across the bellwether state, local politicians are trying to rebuild the party from the ground up.
  • Activism
    Building Democracy in 'Trump Country'
    March 10, 2017
    | Ben Fink
    Ben Fink works at Kentucky's Appalshop, a grass-roots multimedia arts center. He writes about how he and his community have been working with each other in the aftermath of the presidential election.
  • Activism
    The Kids Are Alright
    November 8, 2016
    | George Goehl
    Student organizers vow to keep on working past Election Day.
  • Activism
    The Internet Is People: A Response to Marshall Ganz
    October 26, 2014
    | Micah Sifry
    Marshall Ganz seems to think my book blames technology alone for the Internet’s failure to democratize politics. That’s far from the case.
  • Rising Voices for a New Economy
    July 2, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Two successful community organizers join forces to improve the lives of working Americans and make corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
  • Jim Hightower on the Rise of Populism
    July 2, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    The writer and commentator says groups across the country are stepping up the fight for economic, political and social justice.
  • A Story of Self, A Story of Us
    May 8, 2013 | Group Think

    Public narrative is central to movement building, organizing and advocacy. It's an articulation of the challenge, of the sources of hope, and of a pathway to action required to realize that hope; a response to those three questions posed by first century Jerusalem scholar, Rabbi Hillel: If I am not of myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? If not now, when? A story of self, a ...

  • Two Occupy Organizers on Goals of the Protest
    January 13, 2012
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Bill Moyers interviews two Occupy Wall Street organizers who share insight into the movement and what it hopes to accomplish.


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