Activism

Conversation: Roberta Gratz and John Mollenkopf on Cities in Decline Conversation: Roberta Gratz and John Mollenkopf on Cities in Decline

With budget crunches slamming cities and urban industry continuing to decline, what can be done to rebuild American cities so that they are strong and work for everyone?

Sep 22, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

Parents Occupy Chicago Elementary School Building

Parents Occupy Chicago Elementary School Building Parents Occupy Chicago Elementary School Building

On one level, it's a conflict to keep their field house. On another, it's about the future of our nation's schools.

Sep 22, 2010 / StudentNation / Laurie Rojas

One Nation Working Together One Nation Working Together

The sobering new data on poverty has given renewed impetus to the One Nation Working Together march on October 2 to demand jobs, justice and education

Sep 21, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

Let Us Be The Peacemakers Let Us Be The Peacemakers

The most striking American tragedy of these last nine years—far worse than the tragedy of 9/11 itself—is just how weak we have been in the wake of war.

Sep 20, 2010 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 2

Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 2 Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century, Part 2

This is the second of three slide shows detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Here, read Peter Dreier's introduction to the series. Here are the first and third slide shows. Click here to nominate the American progressives you think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.

Sep 17, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier

The State of the Student Left The State of the Student Left

Highlights from a panel from the US Social Forum on the politics of the contemporary American student Left.

Sep 17, 2010 / StudentNation / Laurie Rojas

DREAM Act Comes to the Senate Next Week

DREAM Act Comes to the Senate Next Week DREAM Act Comes to the Senate Next Week

Senators decide next week if hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people will get a path to citizenship. Student activists are mobilizing to convince them to say yes.

Sep 16, 2010 / StudentNation / Braden Goyette

Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

Go here to read Peter Dreier's introduction to this series detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Go here to see the eleven reader-selected American progressives who Nation readers think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.

Sep 16, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier

Food Not Bombs Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs has been making a visible difference for thirty years.

Sep 16, 2010 / Jennifer O’Mahony

The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...

Sep 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier

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