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Call for a Democracy-for-All Act on MoneyOut/VotersIn Day (Movements, Campaign Finance, Citizens United)

We all know the damage done by corporate money in politics. On January 19, we have the opportunity to do something about it.

Mark Green and Robert Weissman
Police Torture and the Death Penalty in Illinois: Ten Years Later (Death Penalty, Anti-Death Penalty Movement)

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.

Flint Taylor
California flag
In California and Beyond, Voters Say Yes to Higher Taxes, Better Services (Movements, Government, Cities, States, Taxes)

Local and state governments are gaining the ability to restore basic services and infrastructure.

Sasha Abramsky
2013 Is Year Zero for Climate Change (Climate Change, Movements, Activism)

The victories of 2012 demand we double down in the fight against global warming. 

Rebecca Solnit
Afghanistan war
With the War in Afghanistan Ending, Where Does the Peace Movement Go Next? (Movements, War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

Peace forces could join with labor, civil rights and environmental coalitions to pressure Obama to “do some nation-building here at home.”

Tom Hayden
Yolanda Andrews: The Home Defenders League Is Fighting Back (Banking Predatory Lending, Housing and Homelessness, Housing Activism)

For Yolanda Andrews, losing her house would mean losing everything. That's why she's standing up to predatory banking.

Francis Reynolds
Smokestacks
Latinos Are Ready to Fight Climate Change—Are Green Groups Ready for Them? (Climate Change, US Politics, Environmental Activism)

Latinos—along with other minorities and youth—are the strongest supporters of action against climate change. It’s time mainstream enviros got the message.

Mark Hertsgaard
350.org
Climate Activists Hit Hard With 'Do the Math' National Tour (Climate Change, Election 2012, Environmental Activism)

350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.

Tom Hayden
Barack Obama
A Progressive Surge (Movements, Election 2012)

The “rising American electorate” carried Obama and a strong slate of Democrats to victory.

The Editors
Progressives and the Election: A Nation Panel Conversation (Movements, Election 2012, The Left)

How can progressives balance support for the Democrats with the need to mobilize grassroots support for social and economic causes?

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Blogs

Power Shift 09
StudentNation

In two weeks students will lead the largest day of lobbying on climate change in US history.

February 16, 2009
Power Shift 2009
StudentNation

Ten thousand young activists are planning to underscore the urgency of dramatic action on climate change.

November 25, 2008
Whither Capital Punishment
StudentNation

As a seven-month national moratorium on executions comes to an end, where does the student movement against the death penalty go?

September 9, 2008
Curbing Corporate America
The Notion

Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and spend millions of dollars courting members of Congress to win legislative favors. The presidential election in '08 promises to be the priciest in history, largely underwritten by big business and top dollar donors.

June 8, 2007