Members of the Grand Rapids League of Women Voters organized a city get-out-the-vote parade in 1924. Grand Rapids...
Activism
Follow the people and movements that challenged entrenched power to demand social and political change. These stories examine how collective action emerges and why resistance can reshape public life.
By Charles Eisenstein / 12.12.2017 Understanding the Power of Our Actions Sometimes when I encounter pioneers in...
What exactly is outrage? Philip Pilosian/Shutterstock By Dr. Justin Tosi and Dr. Brandon Warmke / 06.19.2017 Tosi:...
Sister Maura Clarke, 1959-1980 / Wikimedia Commons By Anna Brown / 02.03.2017 Eileen Markey’s stunningly beautiful book,...
Universites Not Out of the Safe Space Yet / www.spiked-online.com By Dr. Walter M. Brasch / 08.06.2016...
French-Tunisian artist eL Seed blends the historic art of Arabic calligraphy with graffti to portray messages of...
Police in riot gear stand behind a group of protesters at the 2008 RNC in St. Paul,...
Woman and child, Lesbos, 2015. Santi Palacios/AP/Press Association Images. A new book documents Europe’s loss of humanity...
Is Our World Changing Form? Renowned Cellular Biologist and author, Bruce Lipton, says the tremendous changes happening...
Why do campuses have “free speech zones”? John By David L. Hudson, Jr. / 05.31.2016 First Amendment...
An anti-Trump protest in April. (Photo: A. Jones/flickr/cc) Cleveland’s “extreme limitations” on protests, laid out on Wednesday,...
Hedy Epstein, who died at her home on Thursday at the age of 91, often shared her...
Some independent journalists in China call themselves grassroots historians and publish their writing on social media platforms....
Peter Sheik on Flickr / Creative Commons By Brian Martin / 05.23.2016 Think how useful it would...
Occupy Wall Street on September 30, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons/David Shankbone) By Mark Engler and Paul Engler Why...
Strategy for a Living Revolution – George Lakey How Strategy for a Living Revolution came to life...
Rev. Daniel Berrigan in 1995. (Getty/Chris Felver) By Rev. John Dear / 05.02.2016 Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the...
By Shovelling Son, on Flickr Creative Commons From Maya Lowenstein at The Collegian / 04.28.2016 Who remembers...
Wikimedia Commons By George Lakey First, let’s agree that safety is a human need. Studies find that...
By Nadine Bloch A hundred years ago on November 19, 1915, the song writin’, cartoon scribblin’, parody...
Photo by Annette Bernhardt, Flickr Creative Commons. By Tristan Husby / 04.18.2016 A friend of mine who...