Activism
In North Dakota, 27 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Monday’s action to peacefully occupy a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. The arrests at the hands of militarized police came less than a day after a federal court of appeals ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux’s request for an emergency injunction against the controversial pipeline project.
What if one single word could “flip the paradigm,” unleashing the power to create enough for ourselves, enough for our communities and enough for the planet? And what if it wasn’t a trick or a gimmick, but a universal truth written into the very design of the cosmos?
The running theme of this poem is that of justice and in the western media we have a systematic dehumanizing of groups that are different from ourselves. Media will affiliate groups with other groups that do not share the same ideology, but many will believe them to have the affiliation.
Small, deliberate changes can impact huge, widespread change. This is the case for recent decisions to end for-profit prisons in the US.
The reason given for why the DEA declined to downgrade the federal classification of cannabis was that “science doesn’t support” the notion cannabis may be used for medical purposes. That’s total rubbish. Here’s why…
Let’s count every single win, big and small, that our focus and hard work have achieved in addressing the grip of money in politics. As we work to remove that democracy-destroying power, we build confidence and avenues for shaping new rules governing our society so that America works for all of us.
It’s the answer to the question that you have been waiting for God herself to deliver unto you. What is the best political stance to take? Should I be a conservative? Or a liberal? Which is the more “spiritual” ideology? Which is the more righteous, the more holy, or in the parlance of the new […]
According to the organizer, New York photographer Spencer Tunick, “the work is for my daughters, for their future, for them not to grow up in a society with hate, for them to grow up in a world with less violence toward women and more opportunities for them.”
While the name, Black Lives Matter, could be perceived as an exclusive club where others aren’t welcome, nothing could be further from the truth. BLM, as the movement is often abbreviated, only wants to level the playing field, and welcomes supporters from any race, creed, religion, gender — anyone — who acknowledges systemic disparities present in the U.S.
Here’s the first one: Hania Guiagoussou is changing the world through apps. Using her coding skills, she has developed projects with social impact; one of which is WaterSaver, a system that adapts to changes in weather and soil conditions, and gives users the ability to monitor and control water sources from anywhere.
Does the media kill your vibe? Here are a few traps of modern society that often inspire lower vibrational feelings like anger and insecurity.
Everyone and everything in the world makes sound, even if it’s so soft that it can’t be heard. While many people are quick to assume that those who are hearing impaired don’t notice sound, that’s not the case. Sound functions as a form of social currency in society but should it really be put on a proverbial pedestal?
Marc Ching is relentless in his quest to put an end to the barbaric Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Sometimes he sneaks into slaughterhouses pretending to be a buyer, and other times he’s successful in persuading owners of the establishments to stop their cruel activities.
Woody Harrelson tells us how we can utilize our power to support and promote the type of world we want to live in, right now, at this moment.
Akon is gifting Africans solar power and providing them jobs in the process. So far, he has helped to provide electricity for 600 households.
