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#making change

We’re collecting videos about regular people who stepped up to a challenge in their communities and are making a difference. We hope these stories will inspire you to make change, too.

  • 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.
  • Activism
    A New Documentary Celebrates the Life and Work of Dolores Huerta
    October 6, 2017
    | Titi Yu
    A new film celebrates the force that is Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer who works tirelessly on behalf of poor people around the country.
  • Activism
    An Unlikely Alliance Fights Big Oil
    September 20, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    In the fields of Nebraska, Jane Kleeb has grown a bipartisan coalition of farmers, ranchers, tribes and environmental advocates to fight an international pipeline.
  • Activism
    Cleaning Up America's 'Dirty Secret' in the Black Belt
    September 5, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    In rural Alabama, Catherine Coleman Flowers took on a problem no one was touching: environmental injustice.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Gabe Gonzalez
    August 10, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    When federal agents began cracking down on undocumented immigrants in the Chicago area, Gabe Gonzalez launched a rapid-response network of neighbors to block them.
  • Activism
    Nick Tilsen Is Building a $60 Million Sustainable Community on an Indian Reservation
    July 5, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    On South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, Nick Tilsen is upending entrenched poverty and rebuilding his Lakota community.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Brandon Dennison
    June 1, 2017
    Coal jobs are disappearing, but Brandon Dennison’s innovative nonprofit, Coalfield Development Corporation, is doing more than just putting people in southern West Virginia back to work.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Morgan Dixon
    May 19, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    The co-founder of GirlTrek discovered that big changes in the health of black women can begin with small steps — literally — like walking half an hour every day.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Rebecca Adamson
    May 16, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    Rebecca Adamson is an economist and advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. She is the founder of First Peoples Worldwide and the founder and former director of the First Nations Development Institute.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Tony Hillery
    May 9, 2017
    A former limo driver describes how his life's work took a surprising turn.


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