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...

Aris Anagnos  discusses the on-going world economic crisis, particularly in Greece, and the impact it has on the work of building left social movements. Aris Anagnos was born in  Athens, Greece in 1923. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of Grece,...

Evelyn Servin, Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, and Ingrid Chapman tell us about the intense struggle that's been happening in the state of Alabama against some of the most vicious anti-immigration state laws in the country. Evelyn Servin is a leader within...