Activism & Organizing

2009

• Obama for America's Gallup Pol

  Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Native Americans

  Nadine Padilla organized for Obama in Native American communities. Now she's passing her skills on to others.

• Obama Youthquake: One Year Later

  VideoNation : Student Movements

  One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?

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  The Obama Generation, Revisited

  Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Youth, Education, & Children

  The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?

• The Domino Effect

  Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Youth

  A group of twentysomethings from San Francisco took an unlikely path to jobs within the Obama administration.

• Obama and Organizing: One Year Later

  GRIT TV

  Nation contributor Elizabeth Mendez Berry discusses how the Obama administration has tried to harness its grassroots efforts post-election.

• America's Teacher

  Naomi Klein : U.S. Economy

  The Shock Doctrine author interviews Michael Moore on the roots of the economic crisis and the promise and peril of this political moment.

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  Ten Things You Need to Know to End Homelessness

  : Ten Things

  Find an emergency prevention programs in your area, encourage no-strings attached outreach and more means to end homelessness.

• Healthcare We Can Believe In

  Katha Pollitt : Health Care Policy

  Polls show most Americans still want reform. But polls don't mean much politically if everyone stays quiet. Never mind wonkery--we need a movement.

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  We Need More Protest to Make Reform Possible

  Peter Dreier

  If progressives are serious about economic and healthcare reform, they must embrace the same approach with Obama they once took with FDR and "make him do it."

• Naming the Enemy

  Christopher Hayes : Business

  Grassroots activists take on the banking industry on the question of bankruptcy reform.

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  Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger

  : Ten Things

  Eat less meat, conserve energy, buy fair-trade products, support sustainable agriculture, advocate for food security as a human right...

• Ten More Things You Can Do to Oppose War in Afghanistan

  Tom Hayden : Ten Things

  Take these concrete steps to build an antiwar infrastructure from the bottom up.

• Students Storm the Hill

  Laura Dean Youth leaders march on Washington to lobby for affordable education and the DREAM Act.

• AIG Lights a Fire

  Christopher Hayes : U.S. Economy

  A new kind of economic populism is driving grassroots protests to nationalize, reorganize and decentralize the financial system.

• Jamileh Ebrahimi, Educational Justice Organizer

  Jamilah King : Youth, Education, & Children

  Want to improve K-12 schools in your city? Get your friends involved, says Ebrahimi.

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  Ten Things You Can Do to Stay in Your Home

  : Ten Things

  Advice and resources for preventing or fighting foreclosure.

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  Lessons From Latin America

  Benjamin Dangl : South America

  The region's social movements are a useful model for US leftists wanting to influence Obama.