Contemporary Issues
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
- 2014
- Article
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
bell hooks suggests that feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexist oppression because the very foundation of women's liberation has, until now, not accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience.
- 2000
- Book
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Including leading voices involved in the struggle against the tar sands, A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance.
- 2014
- Book
Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy
Why do many U.S. residents and Catholics, too often fall short of adequately challenging the use of violence in U.S. policy? The author draws on Jesus, Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, and King to offer a virtue-based approach to nonviolent peacemaking with a corresponding set of core practices.
- 2012
- Book
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
VCNV has long-standing roots in active nonviolent resistance to U.S. war-making. Voices draws from the experiences of those who challenged the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against the Iraqi people between 1990 and 2003.
- 2005
- Organization
Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
- 1971
- Nonprofit
Waging Nonviolence
Waging Nonviolence is a source for original news and analysis about struggles for justice and peace around the globe.
- 2009
- News Source
#Charlestonsyllabus
A list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the horrendous events that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015.
- 2015
- Resources