Van Jones, president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, discusses the U.S. economy, foreclosures, student loans, Obama, Occupy, and what it means to build the movement. Rebuild the Dream describes their organization as: A platform for bottom-up, people-powered organizing, teach-ins, online...

Kim McGill, an organizer with the Youth Justice Coalition of Los Angeles, discusses recruiting and training young organizers around the issues of the juvenile injustice system, police and prison funding, the school to prison pipeline, what it means to build a...

Carla is a community rights activist and co-founder and leader of the Summer Youth Organizing Academy (SYOA). Carla has been doing amazing work recruiting and training young high school age organizers for many years now from many of LA's...

The Strategy Center organizer and policy analyst Crystal McMillan, tells us about the Federal Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill that was just passed by the U.S. Congress and is waiting for Obama's signature. This is a huge bill worth $109...

Professor Miguel Tinker Salas, discusses the presidential elections that took place in Mexico on Sunday, July 1st. Now that the elections are over,  A) what can we expect will be the real consequences for the Mexican people and, B) what will...

Lisa Gay Hamilton, well known for her film, TV, and theater career, and for her sharp political mind. You might best know her in the role of attorney Rebecca Washington on the ABC legal drama The Practice, and for her...