Many readers know their fellow activists across the country are seeking new forms for achieving social good collectively—ones where we’re less like replicas of the problems we seek to address and more like the future we want to create together.
As evidence-based policy comes under siege, scientists may become reluctant heroes.
The environmental movement has long been divided along race and class lines. Perhaps there is some momentum to change all of that in the face of the need for a powerfully aligned movement.
Last week, President Trump indicated that he may wish to cancel Puerto Rico’s debt and is considering the permanent suspension of the Jones Act—both demands made by activists, organizers, elected officials, and community-based organizations.
Nonprofits and their supporters advocate preserving their programs and back that up with an attempt at raw political power.
Mass shootings, by disrupting our sense of safety, can sow wariness and mistrust of our fellow human beings. Yet social trust is the bedrock of any strong notion of a highly functioning civil society. One way of thinking of our sector’s role is that we are in the social trust building business. In today’s climate, our work is cut out for us.
As the Trump era evolves, some more established Jewish organizations have joined their millennial counterparts, protesting within this period of exceptional political rawness. What are the organizational threats?
Music festivals with an activist purpose are on the rise again. It is good to see the balancing of the hard work of social change with the pleasures necessary to sustain us. Bringing them both together is something we can get behind.
Not only must we publicly disavow white supremacy; we must offer a counternarrative and model leadership that supports racial justice and economic justice—in society at large and in our organizations.
A nine-year-old boy with an exceptionally can-do attitude has taken on over the conservation of national monuments.
