In the face of growing political polarization, spaces for thoughtful dialogue across ideologies have all but disappeared. Spaceship Media seeks to fill this void by bringing people together to talk about contentious issues. In this conversation, an NRA member and an anti-violence activist discover they are not as different as they once thought.
Just days before the midterms, we are faced with a frightening scenario of our own making because, in the end, we cannot expect to be protected if we do not work hard to protect one another. Armed guards won’t do it; organizing, voting, and coalescing around a common future will.
While law enforcement approaches to reducing gun violence in the US have been lacking, neighborhood-based nonprofit approaches show promise.
Even as students all over the country are subject to mass shooting drills in schools, where they have every right to feel safe, due to a 20-year-old NRA-backed amendment there has been no federally funded public health research on the topic of gun violence. The Arnold Foundation is now stepping up with a leadership grant of $20 million to make that research happen.
As student organizers in the anti-gun violence movement have learned, just saying you want to engage in multiracial organizing doesn’t mean you’ll achieve it.
Those who are thrust into leadership roles in social movements face a difficult balancing act: Maintaining a self-reflective attitude, even when goaded by personal attacks, is critical.
How do you build a moment into a movement? While movements can flourish for idiosyncratic reasons, past social movements offer us some useful guideposts.
As youths across the US demonstrate their determination to be a part of the civic conversation, civil rights groups like the ACLU are stepping in where schools have left gaps to educate students about their rights in a protest environment.
Today’s new, more activist form of corporate social responsibility is leading corporations to weigh in on social issues even when doing so may create a backlash.
In an op-ed, a business writer calls on credit card issuers to stop financing automatic rifle purchases. It could be a useful step, but is it enough?
