On November 21, 2019, Colombia became the latest country in Latin America to take to the streets. Following protests in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador,
Category: Activism
A Tale of Two Jameses
John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book (with much help from speechwriter Ted Sorensen) , Profiles in Courage, focused on eight white men (yes,
What do we do about the tweeter-in-chief?
What are we living? Drama, comedy, soap opera, reality show, tragedy, nightmare? With hindsight, history will tell us clearly. History will frame this decade
I pledge allegiance to…Indivisible
With its call for the twenty-one (and counting) currently declared Democratic presidential candidates to sign onto the We Are Indivisible 2020 Candidate Pledge, once
16-year-old climate change activist says: “Time to panic”
In an emotional address to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on April 16, 2019, sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a
Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time
Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time. The story
What I learned by sending school supplies to Tonga
Where’s Tonga? That’s a question I had never before asked, until a young woman I know joined the Peace Corps, was assigned to the
15-year-old Swedish student sparks international Fridays for Future movement
Sometimes it takes just one person to spark a movement. Swedish student Greta Thunberg is one such person. In August 2018 the then fifteen-year-old
Schiff to Republicans: Speak out, already!
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff [D-CA] has published an open letter to his Republican colleagues, urging them to, at long last, break their
Ballot initiatives: Downside of uptick in voter turnout
If you are frustrated with gridlock and/or intransigence in your state legislature, as many voters are, one way to get your issue considered is