Organizing and Activism

Mutual aid groups were a lifeline for many during the pandemic. In the face of near constant loss and uncertainty, neighbours and communities came together to create networks of food…

The students looked as if they could be getting ready for a Harry Styles concert, sprawled out across the carpet in the University of South Dakota’s student center. Early 2000s…

Plucking, washing, combing, cutting, dyeing, shaving — our hair has a high value for us, and for many of us, it’s one of the ways we can show ourselves and…

Waves of protest in Iran suggest growing divide between young and old, and secular and fundamentalist, say experts. The recent death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, while in…

The health of American democracy has become an inescapable topic for those in philanthropy. How did we get to this tenuous place? What can be done to deescalate the current…

“We are all very good at the lip service.” What many of us fear and suspect—and what an executive from a leading global brand recently confirmed—is that companies do not…

In Brazil, two Yanomami children drowned after getting sucked into a dredging machine used by illegal gold miners. A 14-year-old Pataxó child was shot in the head during a conflict over land in…

Although youth voter participation increased by 11% between the 2016 and 2020 elections, many young people still face a range of systemic barriers – from voter suppression to spotty civics…

For many of us organizing in Philadelphia, we lost a giant last month. To many of us Michael Hinson was a champion of a range of social causes, notably in…