At our last Dr. Pop retreat, we decided that we wanted to experiment with important content in a story-telling way, and decided to create a…
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All of us are eternally grateful to all of you who provided us with love and support for our first-ever graphic novel project, BIG WATER,…
Thanks to everyone who came out last week for the Blocks and Lots launch party at the Mercado. It was so much fun to see…
In 1990, I organized a grassroots coalition against redlining and for community reinvestment. It was led mostly by women of color and a few very exceptional…
Gene Sharp’s slim volume, From Dictatorship to Democracy, outlines why and how non-violent struggle is the warfare of the 21st century, and builds a template for…
The following video consists of a 2011 online presentation by Miriam Torres of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, which helps local groups build a…
Today is the premier of the movie The Help, which places African American domestic workers at the center of a major motion picture – a…
I’m walking down Calle Carabobo (translation: silly-face street) in Medellin. It’s a place where volume matters. It matters to the street vendors –– the “llamada”…
Albert Einstein once said that “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But at this…
Hisham El Rouby is the founder and CEO of Youth and Development Consultancy Institute (YDCI), which helps young Egyptians develop technical and leadership skills and…
Whenever I despair about our diminishing public sector, I reflect on The Library as a sacrosanct bastion of democracy. But now, even that is prey…
The year is 1984 and I am on a bus riding through the green pastoral landscape of Northern Spain’s Basque country with about 30 other…
Last year I read The City and the City a sci-fi detective story by China Mieville, which takes place in two cities that are in…
A few months ago we invited all of you to participate in our first ever survey-contest about what you would like to see simply explained…
On Sunday, October 24, all of the Dr. Pop core blogger crew (except for Ryan, who is celebrating his post-nuptials) assembled at Hanbury Hall in…
Last week, I visited the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo Los Angeles. Two tiny elderly women were standing next to a reconstructed portion…
When Rebecca “Commie Girl” Schoenkopf saw the blurb for the Dr. Pop July event in Chicago where we showed the documentary Bogotá Change, she immediately facebooked…
Great librarians, pushing comics, graphic novels, and more. I eased into Comicon’s hugeness with a panel on Comics in the Library, and just as I…
Dr. Pop was one of the lucky many, many thousands who attended Comic Con in San Diego, the mother of all comic book conventions, now…