Meet the Organizers Planning the Biggest Sit-In in a Generation
If Congress hasn't taken action to help get money out of politics by April 10, 3,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in a week-long series of sit-ins.
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Uber鈥檚 Immigrant Drivers Look Forward to Better Pay鈥攁nd Bigger Voice
A union for Seattle Uber drivers means finally having the right to a two-way conversation with their multibillion-dollar employer.
Was 2015 the Year Big Food Began to Lose Its Sway?
Companies like Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest, leaving many in the public health sector to wonder if next year transparency might become the new normal.
3 Ways the TPP Will Hurt the Climate鈥擨f We Let It Pass
The next big trade deal is poised for a congressional vote in 2016. Here's what that means for the planet.
The Interest-Free Lending Circles That Help Friends and Families Do DIY Loans
Who needs banks when you have communities? And organizations like Mission Asset Fund have even figured out how to use the system to raise credit scores.
1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day鈥擳hese Authors Spent Years Finding Out Why
For their new book, H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of America鈥檚 poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.
What鈥檚 a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement
From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.
鈥淵ou Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life鈥�: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he鈥檚 standing up to tar sands extraction.
I Learned More by Leading a Student-Debt Strike Than I Did at College
After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I鈥檓 helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.
After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I鈥檓 Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now
大象传媒 co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
The Case for a 鈥淛azz Revolution鈥� Against Corporate Capitalism
Bottom up? Top down? Improvisation is the key to a middle way.
Obama鈥檚 Push for Corporate Rule: A Moment of Opportunity
Call it populism versus corporatism or democracy versus corporate rule. Either way, it is a far more meaningful political division than two political parties debating big government versus small.
Six Ways TPP Opponents Have Won鈥擡ven as Fast Track Advances
Critics of the TPP forged relationship with foreign allies, firmed up union positions, and forced some concessions on the secrecy of the text.
This College Student Chained Herself to a Shell Oil Ship for Three Days. Here鈥檚 Why.
Will young activists do anything to stop oil drilling in the Arctic?
Watch John Oliver Explain How Absurd the US Standardized Testing System Is
John Oliver does a damn good job of explaining how ridiculous our standardized testing system is.
One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished Since 2008. Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis
While megabanks make megabucks, local banks are financing businesses that create jobs and improve well-being. So why are they disappearing so rapidly?
Is the Local Economy Too Local? Why Co-Ops and Credit Unions Need a Broader Strategy
Author and activist Gar Alperovitz calls it a 鈥渃heckerboard strategy.鈥� In the first piece in a series, we look at the organizations working to transform our economy, and how they can benefit from working together.
A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More
The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.
鈥淭he Internet Is My Lifeline鈥�: Hip-Hop Artist Jasiri X on the FCC鈥檚 Net Neutrality Vote
The political artist from Pittsburgh speaks about the importance of the Internet and social media in making the voices of low-income people of color heard.
Six Ways the US Is Building a People-Powered Economy
Alternative business models such as worker-owned cooperatives are gaining ground, proving that a more just and sustainable future is possible.
Vermonters Lobby for Public Bank鈥擜nd Win Millions for Local Investment Instead
Advocates didn鈥檛 get the public bank they wanted. But the compromise they reached in the end was still a rare and significant win over Wall Street banks.
Laid-Off Baltimore Workers Beat Disney in Court鈥擜nd Ask All the Right Questions About Urban Development
By some estimates, the city of Baltimore has sunk more than $1.5 billion into its Inner Harbor. Workers and residents want their share too.
Owning Together Is the New Sharing
Companies and startups are aspiring toward an economy, and an Internet, that is more fully ours with the use of cooperatives, "commons-based peer production," and cryptocurrencies.
The Battle in Seattle, 15 Years On: How an Unsung Hero Kept the Movements United
A lead organizer of the protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999 remembers Tyree Scott, a quiet presence in the labor movement who urged unity when it mattered most.
North Dakota Has a Unique Law Protecting Locally Owned Pharmacies鈥擝ut This Ballot Measure Could Wipe It Out
In the far north of the Great Plains, you have to be a pharmacist to own a pharmacy. Next week, voters could overturn that rule鈥攑utting the state's thriving independent drugstores at risk.
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