Positive ActivismThis summer’s activist in focus is Emily Giles an art therapist focused on using the creative process to help strengthen individuals and communities.
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Refugee Realities Post-Paris
It is unreasonable to deny these individuals help because we are afraid of what might happen if we give them their lives back. That is not how humanity works.
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Pearson’s Department of State: Should Corporations be Allowed to Decide Who Serves in Government?
Pearson, the education publishing giant is the gatekeeper for those wishing to serve at the department of state. Should corporations be allowed to control who becomes public servants and who doesn’t?
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Activist Watch List: The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self is a British documentary written, produced, and narrated by Adam Curtis, originally airing in 2002 on BBC 4. The series identifies the multitude of ways in which powerful interests, both public and private, have used psychoanalysis to control populations
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Opinion: Bernie Sanders, the Sheepdog Socialist
Will Sanders’s campaign usher in change for the Democratic Party, or will it serve to Shepard young liberals into Hilary’s camp? One socialist weighs in on Bernie’s legitimacy as a candidate and as a progressive.
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Activist Watch List: Noam Chomsky and the Manufacturing of Consent
AWL is a series in which we take a look at documentaries or otherwise important video content that illuminates the issues and conflicts at the heart of the activist community. This episode features “Manufacturing Consent” which highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.
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Recent Articles
In Defense of Bernie Sanders
In August this author questioned Bernie’s motives, now he’s urging us to vote for the Vermont Senator in the primaries.
Refugee Realities Post-Paris
It is unreasonable to deny these individuals help because we are afraid of what might happen if we give them their lives back. That is not how humanity works.
Summer 2016 Activist Spotlight – Emily Giles
This summer’s activist in focus is Emily Giles an art therapist focused on using the creative process to help strengthen individuals and communities.
Paris in the Days After
The people of Paris did not die at the hands of the Islamic State so we could surrender our ideals to fanatics.
Activist Watch List: Noam Chomsky and the Manufacturing of Consent
AWL is a series in which we take a look at documentaries or otherwise important video content that illuminates the issues and conflicts at the heart of the activist community. This episode features “Manufacturing Consent” which highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.
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