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Funders are expressing confusion over how their foundations should be responding to our rapidly dismantling democracy, rising fascism, and the exponential increase in suffering that communities are facing. Here’s a blueprint for them. Funders, here’s the blueprint for saving democracy https://nonprofitaf.com/2025/04/funders-heres-the-blueprint-for-saving-democracy/ Related Reading
New research reveals that unpopular climate protests work even if they are disruptive, such as blocking traffic, or just odd, like throwing tomato soup at the glass in front of a Vincent van Gogh painting. Whatever the protests are, and however unpopular they may be, they sway media coverage and public awareness toward the climate…
Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people was such a roaring a win-win for everybody that planning is underway to do it again. Cook County leaders are touting the success of their guaranteed income pilot program https://www.wbez.org/cook-county/2025/04/08/cook-county-leaders-are-touting-the-success-of-their-guaranteed-income-pilot-program Related Reading
Here’s a look at Donald Trump’s attempt to whitewash Black history with his anti-DEI orders, and what is being done to stop him. The Quiet Deletion of Black History Within Federal Agencies — and the Fight to Stop It https://capitalbnews.org/trump-smithsonian-tubman-dei-order-erases-black-history/ Related Reading
Conservative voices completely dominate the podcast domain — nine of the 10 most-followed current events shows lean right. But the right isn’t just winning the media war. If the left doesn’t develop its own ideological infrastructure and catch up, it will allow the right to define political reality itself. Liberal Philanthropy’s Misguided Quest for “Joe…
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President Trump is doing everything he can to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S., especially at our southern border. But within five to ten years, experts say, we’ll be competing for immigrants to come here. When Will the U.S. Start Competing for Immigrants? Sooner Than You Think https://barnraisingmedia.com/trump-immigration-rural-economies-workforce/ Related Reading
Sioux Falls, S.D., has plenty of affordable housing available for its poorest citizens, but the application process is so complex that houses sometimes sit vacant for six months or more. To solve that problem, the city is building an online portal that it hopes will be cheap, simple and effective in connecting people with homes….
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The people who used sit-ins to overcome racial segregation in the 1960s are seeing a national government taking shape that is reminiscent of the white supremacy they faced then, and they’re teaching today’s young people how to overcome it. 65 years ago, sit-ins were born. Has their time come again? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0224/black-history-month-sit-ins-courtland-cox Related Reading
350.org is calling on us all to become activists in the climate movement. The time for action is now: “We believe in the collective power of ordinary people taking action for climate justice. Through online campaigns, grassroots organizing and mass public actions, our movement is rising up all over the world. Join us!” Related Reading
Check out the recent release from The Guardian DOCUMENTARIES … “They are the children of the Black Panther party – the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination, they have lived in the shadows of a promised land that was never attained. We join them as they continue…