Interview with Bertha Lewis By B. Jesse Clarke Bertha Lewis is president and founder of the New York-based action think tank, Black Institute and former president and chief organizer for the community organizing group, ACORN. A veteran organizer and powerful public speaker, Bertha has been organizing since the 1980s. The following is an excerpt from...

Interview by Irene Florez Transcript Irene Florez: Making Home Affordable is a key part of the Obama Administration’s effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. If you are struggling with your monthly mortgage payments or if you have already missed a payment, now is the time to take action and apply for HAMP the Home Affordable...

Interview with Katie Joaquin By Christine Joy Ferrer MAKIBAKA! Imagine the life of a domestic worker—a caregiver, nanny, or housekeeper, serving in a private home. Now, imagine not being able to sleep for more than three hours a night, having to wake every few hours to change a patient’s diapers. Or only being allowed sponge...

Your audience are the people of America who can have a different society, a different set of electoral prerogatives but cannot do it through the election system. (9:00) We need direct civil resistance in America as never before. Never before. It must happen. James Lawason Erin Aubry Kaplan: Great, so this is I guess the...

A Conversation with Movement Generation Interview by Ellen Choy The transformation of the Occupy moment into power for movements that can actually challenge entrenched economic interests will be a complex process. Movement Generation activists recently gathered to reflect on what it will take to make this happen.   Ellen Choy: Why  are you committed to...

A panel discussion with Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein Moderated by Scott Kurashige Scott Kurashige: We’re going to start with our panelists giving us their sense of how they see the world today and the core concepts we need—to make sense of the challenges we confront. Grace Lee Boggs: I had the great privilege...

By Frank Lopez and Joe Feria-Galicia Frank Lopez: How are the plaintiffs going to ensure that the criteria chosen to evaluate the alternatives are going to be more equitable? Alegria De La Cruz: Part of what is exciting to us about being able to open this [up], is that there’s a lot more information available...

Interview by Christine Joy Ferrer In the summer of 2003 RP&E published Where Do We Go From Here? A Look at the Long Road to Environmental Justice. The young activists of 2003 voiced their aspirations for the EJ movement in “The Next Generation, Youth Voices in Environmental Justice.” Today, the young and the fearless continue...