Social Justice

Immigrant Activists Regroup

Immigrant Activists Regroup Immigrant Activists Regroup

Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national deba...

Dec 2, 2010 / Feature / Daniel Altschuler

Grinnell College Announces $300,000 Annual Social Justice Prize Program Grinnell College Announces $300,000 Annual Social Justice Prize Program

Up to three $100,000 prizes will honor young innovators, organizations advancing positive social change

Nov 30, 2010 / StudentNation / Joanna Chiu

Readers Speak: Eleven More Progressives Who Deserve Our Recognition Readers Speak: Eleven More Progressives Who Deserve Our Recognition

Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the...

Nov 11, 2010 / Peter Dreier

Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy

This is the final chapter in the long and winding right-wing witch hunt against an organization that stood strong for poor and working people.

Nov 2, 2010 / Greg Kaufmann

Slacker Friday Surprise: The Return of LTC Bob Slacker Friday Surprise: The Return of LTC Bob

The J Street conflict, the life of a career professional military officer and the mail.

Oct 29, 2010 / Eric Alterman

Just Say Yes to Common Sense on Pot Policy Just Say Yes to Common Sense on Pot Policy

California voters should pass Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana for adults.

Oct 27, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Dobbs and Pony Show: Snapshots of America’s Immigration Hypocrisy The Dobbs and Pony Show: Snapshots of America’s Immigration Hypocrisy

On Huffington Post, Isabel Macdonald asks whether the spectacle of Lou Dobbs's undocumented worker hypocrisy will force Obama to face this country's own immigration injustices?

Oct 18, 2010 / Press Room

The Wall Comes Tumbling Down The Wall Comes Tumbling Down

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers signed a historic agreement between farmworkers and a major grower.

Oct 18, 2010 / Greg Kaufmann

Are Lou Dobbs’s Workers Undocumented? Isabel Macdonald Explains on Democracy Now! Are Lou Dobbs’s Workers Undocumented? Isabel Macdonald Explains on Democracy Now!

Investigative journalist Isabel Macdonald explains how she uncovered Lou Dobbs's immigration hypocrisy for her explosive article in this issue of The Nation.

Oct 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Democracy Now!

Briefing: Bill Fletcher Jr. and Richard Kim on the One Nation March Briefing: Bill Fletcher Jr. and Richard Kim on the One Nation March

The One Nation march should not not simply be a nice day out for progressives, says Bill Fletcher Jr.—it needs to be a turning of the tide, a change of course away from ang...

Oct 4, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

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