On June 20th the Dalai Lama came to the London School of Economics to give a talk titled ‘Resisting Intolerance: an ethical and global challenge‘….
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My son Nelson has been studying at the Univerisdad Complutense, the largest public university in Spain with 75,000 students. He has been in Madrid since…
In December of 2011, for the fifth time in its history, the pro football team the Green Bay Packers sold stock in the team. They…
While Chicago hosts the NATO summit, where military leaders and their like-minded political counterparts turned conference rooms into war rooms and exhibit halls into transatlantic…
I am too far from Tucson now, thousands of miles away, but this place where I grew up is so deeply in my heart I…
What makes people powerful? Is it the level of resources they wield? The amount of knowledge they possess? Or, perhaps, is it their ability to...
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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…
Last Saturday, some 3,000 thousand people gathered around Saint Paul’s cathedral in London to “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” (or LSX). Two days later, the…
We have been fighting to get something started in Britain, we’ve been looking to the Arabs (in a remarkable and much appreciated change in point…
Recently I did a presentation to the staff of the Western Center on Law and Poverty about the search for the narrative. The idea being…
Guest blogger Tony Roshan Samara is associate professor of sociology at George Mason University and a resource ally with the Right to the City alliance….
Below are three very different dipatches from friends in London about what’s going on in the streets and in the media: DEPTFORD UNITED, a Lewisham…
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”…
Over the past few years, there has been an incredible rise in popularity of the far-right in several European countries, including Belgium, Austria, Denmark and…
Winston Churchill once said that history is written by the victors. For centuries, the histories of Africa and Latin America were told via the pens…
Marie Kennedy is a transformative community planner who often draws upon participatory action research (PAR) methods to advance her work. In this interview, she shares…