Activism

Detroit as a Food Desert -- Another Urban Myth

By Jay Walljasper / Citiwire

The widespread belief that the city is a food desert is, like many myths about Detroit, simply not true.

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After the 99% Spring: What Comes Next

By Amy Dean / AlterNet

How the LA Riots Ignited a Generation of Young Activists

By Biko Baker / AlterNet

How The Big Banks Run The World -- At Your Expense

By Gar Alperovitz / TruthOut.org

Why Progressives Must Make The Moral Case For Universal Health Care

By Rich Yeselson / The National Memo

Progressive Photo of the Day: Chickens Living in an Old Bug

Progressive Photo of the Day: High-Heeled Men Storm the Streets for an End to Sexual Violence

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Activism

It is No Mystery: The Real Reason Conservatives Keep Winning

Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

Hunger Strikers Charge Congress with Starving Postal Service

Josh Eidelson / In These Times

Exposing "The Invisible War" on Women in the Military

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

If Bankers Don't Want Regulation, Why Not Tax Them Instead?

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

How Student DREAMers Won A Step in Immigration Reform

Mark Engler / AlterNet

What’s Needed for Change at This Political Moment? 5 Well-Known Progressives, 5 Strong Opinions

Betsy Leondar-Wright / Classism Exposed

An Ambitious Plan to Get People to Rethink Themselves and One Another

Laura Flanders / The Nation

10 Leaders You Should Know About

Jamilah King / ColorLines

It's No Longer Enough to Regulate Corporate Greed: The Global Water Crisis Demands a Paradigm Shift

Maude Barlow, Meera Karunananthan / AlterNet

Does the Liberal Establishment Care About Anything But Itself? The Hard Lessons of Wisconsin

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Occupy Homes Wins Crucial Victories for Struggling Homeowners Against Big Banks

Han Shan / AlterNet

10 Steps We Can Take Right Now to Build the New Economy

James Gustave Speth / YES! Magazine

'The People Need Robin Hood': Nurses Union Leads Nationwide Campaign to Force Wall Street to Pay Its Fair Share

Alex Kane / AlterNet

We Know What We're Against. Now: What Are We <i>For?</i>

David Roberts / Grist.org

'Shock Doctrine' in Action: Vital Freshwater Resources Under Attack by Privatization Capitalists

Scott Thill / AlterNet

What Will Happen at the Rio+20 Earth Summit?

Mike Sandmel / Waging Nonviolence

Melissa Harris-Perry: Fear Is Driving America's Politics, But Hope Is the Only Antidote

Melissa Harris-Perry / Take Back the American Dream

Huge Multiracial Father's Day March Tells Bloomberg and NYPD, 'No More Stop-and-Frisk!'

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Campaign and New Law Challenge Chic Israeli Company Ahava Cosmetics, Whose "Dead Sea Mud" Illegally Exploits Palestinians

Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

Revealed: NY Governor Plans to Experiment with Fracking in Economically Struggling Areas

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The Stop-and-Frisk Crisis: How to Criminalize an Entire Generation of Black and Latino Men

Kevin Powell / AlterNet

Framed: How Redefining Direct Democracy as Anti-Democratic Won Wisconsin

John Nichols / The Nation

The Veteran Suicide Epidemic

Rae Abileah / AlterNet

Big Money Isn't Everything in Elections: Progressives Find Other Ways To Reach Voters

George Bauer / AlterNet

Can We Curb Obscene Pay? 5 Examples of Shareholder Activism

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

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