Holy crap, the news has been a doozy again this week! How have you been holding up? Are you suffering from news overwhelm? How many times this week have you winced before opening the news or your …
Why I’m Ditching Self-Care for Self-Love
Have you gotten sick of all the self-care talk? I have. It's so in-your-face and well, useless. How many times have you seen a product being marketed and snorted to yourself, thinking …
When organizing is like screaming–and that’s a good thing, really
When I was young activist, I'd jump on the soapbox in a heartbeat. As I've aged as a grassroots organizer I've learned to not speak unless I've really got something worthwhile to share. On the other …
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44 of the Most Creative Protest Signs from The March for Our Lives
I love me a good protest sign, don't you? There's just something about that moment--that chance for a second to combine wit, art, and politics all in one zinger. If you can nail it, it feels so good. …
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8 Signs You Might Be Playing Burnout Musical Chairs
What is "burnout"? It's a term that gets thrown around a lot, but usually when it comes down to making life changes people often forget it's a factor. What do I mean? You've seen it. I know you …
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Courage on a Crumpled Piece of Paper
Lately lots of folks have been sharing this video of this amazing young woman Emma Gonzalez confronting NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch. As an experienced organizer, I want to draw your attention to two …
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Slow Pedal
photo by Wayne Bishop I wasn't an athletic kid. In my grade school rampant with bullies (that's what we know to call them now, when I was little it was "just kids being kids") organized sports just …
Jeanette LeBlanc – When a Woman Tells You She’s Been Violated
This stunning poem was published at The Elephant Journal. It should be passed from person to person forever unto eternity. May it help you heal, may it help us support those around us, may it help us …
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Double WOW – Titus Kaphar: Can art amend history? | TED Talk | TED.com
Art isn't always accessible. And it is always a reflection of our society, where we are, where we were, where we aspire to be. So it is not surprising that our views of race have, ahem, colored our …
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“We Need All of Us” by Isabel Faith Abbott
There are days that I want to do something for this world so much that it hurts. Problem is, lately there are days that I have no idea how I'm supposed to do that, exactly. There's this feeling deep …