As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
The progressive movement is seeing a resurgence of younger organizers thanks, in part, to the “Obama effect” of the 2008 campaign, and a…
Leadership means taking on the responsibility of creating conditions that enable others to achieve a shared purpose in the face of…
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find…
“Thinking in Indian: A John Mohawk Reader presents the Native perception of philosopher-thinker-activist John Mohawk (Sotsisowah). An elder…
“‘They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.’ So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a…
“Elizabeth Martinez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored…