This week, the JOURNAL profiled Massachusetts community organizer Steve Meacham, who recruits activists and works to stop evictions of people living in foreclosed homes. Meacham described the process ...

It is now a commonly held belief that funding organizing work is the most effective way to bring about real, effective social change. But what is the history behind that belief? How have full-time ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. When we think of democracy, we often picture elections, debates and the legislative process. But some ...

About five years ago, after a friend told me about a flyer he had seen taped to a tree near my block, I got involved in a “neighbors committee” in the gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood I was ...

SAN ANTONIO (RNS) — Starting with flooding, COPS/Metro, a grassroots advocacy organization consisting largely of San Antonio religious groups, took on the issues that San Antonio leaders were ...

In an essay for The New York Times last November, Pope Francis exhorted us to “dare to create something new.” With the coronavirus pandemic reaching new heights, he challenged us to reject a strain of ...