Michael C. Dawson, The Root. April 4, 2008. Forty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. radicalized a generation of African Americans.
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. March 24, 2008. All over the world gay men, lesbians, and transgender people are denied fundamental freedoms. America is not doing enough to help.
Sara Robinson, Blog for Our Future. March 15, 2008. Part III of a series exploring how conservatives took their worldview to the streets, undermining long-held views about government and society.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. March 7, 2008. The fight for our country's future is still in our hands. Grass-roots movements are breaking free from corporate control.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. January 14, 2008. The Democrats' fizzle in the face of the power-grabbing Bush administration is doing serious damage to America's political psyche.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. August 21, 2007. Will Moore's message travel beyond the progressive sphere and up the ranks on Capitol Hill? AlterNet readers weigh in.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 3, 2007. Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films take a look at those on the front-lines in the fight for economic justice.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: Video. July 3, 2007. Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films take a look at those on the front-lines in the fight for economic justice.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet: PEEK. June 11, 2007. Deanna Zandt: It's time for activists, elected officials and candidates to get together at Campaign for America's Future's annual conference.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. March 27, 2007. If so many people are fed up with the war, why is everyone so silent? Is this the way it usually feels in the heartlands of great empires until the barbarians actually do come knocking at the gates?
Martin Kearns, Jonathan Schwartz, TomPaine.com. February 6, 2007. Wikipedia, one of the Web's most valuable resources, is based on thousands of volunteers. Can progressives make that same power of networked volunteers work for us?
Mark Rosenman, AlterNet. February 5, 2007. Nonprofits have the responsibility of outrage when government policy creates and exacerbates misery: Charities need to speak up and demand that Congress get Washington's foreign policy and its financial priorities in order.
Rebecca Solnit, AlterNet. December 29, 2006. While many of the big stories in 2006 were bad news, there were hundreds of activist successes in 2006 that permanently changed the world.
Don Hazen, AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2006. MoveOn has broken all of its records in terms of its grass roots engagement, voter contacts, and surpassed even their own ambitious intentions for election '06.
Michael Blanding, AlterNet. October 26, 2006. The corporations that sell bottled water are depleting natural resources, jacking up prices, and lying when they tell you their water is purer and tastes better than the stuff that comes out of the tap.
Yuri Loudon, The Internationalist. October 18, 2006. The man who changed the way we look at history explains where Iraq war resistance fits into the history of peace activism.
Dana R. Fisher, The American Prospect. September 19, 2006. Progressive groups are outsourcing their grassroots canvassing to national organizations. What happens when paid employees replace committed activists?