Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom
Students in Newark, New Jersey, walked out of class earlier this month in protest of the “One Newark” plan to privatize the district’s schools. A substitute teach...
Sep 26, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Nyle Fort
What It Takes to Unite Teachers Unions and Communities of Color What It Takes to Unite Teachers Unions and Communities of Color
Overcoming years of tensions and divisions, parents and teachers are linking arms to save public schools.
Sep 24, 2014 / Michelle Fine and Michael Fabricant
These Frontline Communities Know What Climate Justice Would Mean—and They’re Not Seeing It at the UN These Frontline Communities Know What Climate Justice Would Mean—and They’re Not Seeing It at the UN
Changing the path corporations and the 1 percent have set for our planet is going to take more than a march. It’s going to take a struggle.
Sep 24, 2014 / Wen Stephenson
‘We Need to Convert That Energy’: Keith Ellison on What Comes After the People’s Climate March ‘We Need to Convert That Energy’: Keith Ellison on What Comes After the People’s Climate March
A Q&A with the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Sep 24, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining Out of El Salvador The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining Out of El Salvador
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold-mining firm’s shakedown of one of Central America’s poorest countries.
Sep 23, 2014 / Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde and Foreign Policy In Focus
Voices of the People’s Climate March Voices of the People’s Climate March
Hear from some of the activists who made up the massive crowd at the largest environmental justice demonstration in history.
Sep 22, 2014 / Agnes Radomski
American Education Is Leaving Our Youth With a Debt Sentence American Education Is Leaving Our Youth With a Debt Sentence
How for-profit colleges are allowing Wall Street investors to cash in, at students’ expense.
Sep 22, 2014 / Astra Taylor and Hannah Appel
The People’s Climate March Was Huge, but Will It Change Everything? The People’s Climate March Was Huge, but Will It Change Everything?
Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of New York and cities around the world on Sunday, but the fight for climate justice is only beginning.
Sep 21, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
The People’s Climate Weekend: A Guide The People’s Climate Weekend: A Guide
A roster of events and happenings leading up to the People’s Climate March mobilization in New York City.
Sep 19, 2014 / Peter Rothberg
Why We Still Need Wilderness in the Era of Climate Change Why We Still Need Wilderness in the Era of Climate Change
Thoreau was right: “in Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
Sep 19, 2014 / Jason Mark