The Shooting Statistics Are Clear: It鈥檚 Not Schools That Are Dangerous
Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students鈥� gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.
Activism
Indigenous Women Built These Tiny Houses to Block a Pipeline鈥攁nd Reclaim Nomadic Traditions
The houses are affordable and energy-efficient, and are bringing back elements of the Secwepemc鈥檚 hunter-gatherer culture.
If a Queer Woman of Color Can Check Her Wealth Privilege, So Can You
Wealth accumulation has its roots in stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen lives. But you can organize other privileged people with compassion.
Where You Can Still Hear Stories of the Palestinian Expulsions 70 Years Ago
On Twitter, #MyNakbaStory allows descendants of the 700,000 exiled during the formation of Israel to honor their past鈥攁nd continue their protests.
Beyond Fasting: What We Can All Learn From Ramadan
It鈥檚 a holiday intended for introspection and community, something Muslims and non-Muslims alike can benefit from.
Protected by a Church Nearly a Year, Colorado Woman Helps Draft a 鈥淧eople鈥檚 Resolution鈥�
She and three other women are working to address the specific gaps in immigration law that led each to where she is now.
4 Tips for Using Social Media in Your Activism
Here鈥檚 how to use different platforms to spread awareness and get other people excited about your cause.
How This Tribe Got Their Coastal California Lands Returned
The Kashia鈥檚 success might be the first time that a tribe in the U.S. has held a private deed鈥攁s well as management rights鈥攖o their ancestral lands.
An Illustrated Essay: Why I Love the Real Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The spirit and sass of the Parkland school鈥檚 namesake live on in the million young anti-violence activists who have risen up since the shooting.
Students Look Beyond Gun Control Laws to Prevent Violence鈥攁nd It鈥檚 Working
As lawmakers argue over how best to address school shootings, student clubs are focused on reducing youth violence at schools and in their communities.
And the Winner for Best Political Moment Is … the Oscars
If you鈥檝e got a conscience and you鈥檝e got a few seconds in front of a billion people, how could you not speak out against injustice?
A Letter to Ursula Le Guin After Her Departure
When I lost hope in this world, you offered me a plethora of fully formed universes to learn from.
Me Too Creator Tarana Burke Reminds Us This Is About Black and Brown Survivors
There鈥檚 another 鈥渕e too鈥� story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
After Erica Garner鈥檚 Death, I Can鈥檛 Breathe Through the Tears
Perhaps our grief can spark people to join the movement to end the oppression.
Why Redneck Revolt Says Deal With Racism First, Then Economics
Addressing our systems of White supremacy cannot be dismissed as 鈥渋dentity politics.鈥�
The 鈥淩edneck Revolt鈥� Is Showing Up at Gun Shows and KKK Rallies to End White Supremacy
This rural White organization put out a call for working-class Whites to 鈥渞eject the idea of whiteness.鈥�
Why I鈥檝e Started to Fear My Fellow 大象传媒 Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here鈥檚 how that can stop.
Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People
We鈥檝e been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Charlottesville Was Not a 鈥淧rotest Turned Violent.鈥� It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn鈥檛 it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
How to Go the Resistance Distance: Pop-Up Schools for Novice Activists
Modeled after the Civil Rights Era鈥檚 citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.
Signs of Revolution in a Not-Yet-Great America
Since the president sees himself foremost as a negotiator, perhaps it鈥檚 time for a negotiated revolution. Not to break us apart, but to bring us together.
A Small Act of Scientific Civil Disobedience
Big science publications put important peer-reviewed research behind expensive paywalls. But some scientists have found creative ways around them.
Black Communities, not Trump Executive Orders, Will End 鈥淐arnage鈥�
In Chicago and Detroit, citizens already are protecting their neighborhoods from violence. If the president wants to send in help, they say, he can start with education, housing, and justice.
Detroit鈥檚 Massive Muslim Community Looks for Allies in the Trump Era
Fifty-five percent of Americans know very little or nothing at all about Islam, but this group wants to change that.
To Women Marchers: Just Because You Don鈥檛 Feel Welcome Doesn鈥檛 Mean You Don鈥檛 Belong
Issues that impact the womanhood of any one of us鈥攄irectly or indirectly鈥攊mpact all of us.
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