I came out as someone brought up working class in a statewide Freeze convention in the early 1980s. As a gay man,…

George Lakey
George Lakey has campaigned and written about non-violent social change since the 1960s. He co-founded Movement for a New Society in the 1970s, which…
The hardest job I ever had in a half century of social change work was coordinating a multi-class coalition. It didn’t simplify…
The Black Panther Party was an African-American radical organization founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Originally it was called the Black Panther…
In the discussion within the Occupy movement on whether violence is necessary for making change in the United States, the debate has…
The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer told us last week that, on the other side of the country, a brick hit a police officer…
How can we organize against the multiple wars of the U.S. and at the same time plant the seeds for the future…
Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher’s jingoism too much to swallow. “These attacks are…