"Violence is not simply shooting people. Violence is also poverty. It's also incarceration—putting people in prison is incredibly violent."
Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.
We came to Occupy because of America’s dangerous gap between rich and poor. But equally distressing was how many of us suffered from diseases created by a food system that makes healthy food inaccessible to the poor.
Native people are crafting some seriously creative and progressive ways of life, from same-sex marriages in states that don't allow it to the revitalization of indigenous languages.
Negotiators from Latin American and Asian countries said they were "doing their best" to stand up to the U.S. Trade Representative.
Lian Pin Koh shows us how drones can be used for animal conservation, and keep an eye on poachers in the process.
At the Ponca Trail of Tears Spiritual Camp, tribal members and their ranchers are learning to understand each other as never before.
Junk food may have captured the American palate, but a few simple ingredients and techniques can win it back.
If Harry Potter were a real person, he’d fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry's fans have taken his values from the page to the real world.
The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.
What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice—in real life.
It's possible to find hope for action in the new generation's determination and clarity—even after 19 years of stalled negotiations.
"I used to ask the question, 'Am I an activist or a writer?' I don't ask that anymore. I am simply a human being engaged."
Live coverage of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw from Democracy Now!
(and 24 other facts you should probably know).
Beyond the Affordable Care Act, the film explores how to make a healthier America.
It's time to reclaim the well-being and exuberance that is part of healthy food culture.
If governments fail to listen to mounting protests demanding clean energy, people's movements will put their futures in question.
KarmaTube music video on kindness.
In a season that's become dominated by consumerism, we're celebrating the power of grassroots philanthropy.
"Anarchists are certain I'm an anarchist because I cut up a favorite tool of the oppressor," artist Mark Wagner says. "Capitalists think I'm a capitalist because I revel in it."
‘‘A seed sown in the soil makes us one with the Earth. It makes us realize that we are the Earth.”
After a major leak from the agreement's secret text, people are talking about the TPP. What will it mean for the secretive trade deal's future?
Two years ago today, when Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park, many wondered what was next for the movement. Two years later, we profile five projects that got their starts in the encampments and are still making change today.
Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin is not the only NFL player to challenge the league's bigotry and misogyny. These five men stand for a new kind of masculinity.
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