Activism

Mark Van Steenwyk 9-28-2009

My 1.5 year old son Jonas broke his first law last month.

Lisa Sharon Harper 9-25-2009
The following is a message delivered at the "Stand for Freedom in Iran" rally that took place yesterday at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, across from the United Nations.

In the nuclear security business, it's a good day when nothing goes wrong. It's a great day when something goes right.
Allison Johnson 9-25-2009
A recent Center for American Progress report, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/09/loving_thy_neighbor.html" href="https://sojo.net/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/09/loving_thy_nei">http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/09/loving_thy_nei
Justin Fung 9-25-2009
Two hundred years after slavery was declared illegal in Great Britain, and 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, an estimated 27 million people remain enslaved around
Ben White 9-24-2009

Earlier this year, I was shown around Jayyous by Mohammad Othman, Youth Coordinator of the Stop the Wall campaign, a nonviolent grassroots movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Lisa Haugaard 9-24-2009
On September 21st, President Manuel Zelaya returned clandestinely to Honduras and
Becky Garrison 9-23-2009
To commemorate the International Day of Peace (September 21st), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the documentary Pray the Devil Bac
Sheldon Good 9-23-2009

090923-new-york-post-were-screwedOn Monday, millions of people received a "special edition" of The New York Post that told the truth: "We're Screwed." I guess only fake newspapers can print real news.

More than 2,000 volunteers of The Yes Men, a "culture jamming" group, distributed a fake edition of The Post in New York City....

Brian McLaren 9-23-2009
What could be more joyful than rediscovering our God-given role as caretakers, stewards, and lovers of creation?
Paul Kordis 9-21-2009

Sojourners received this letter in response to our action alert last week calling for your letters and prayers to challenge Glenn Beck's view of the health-care debate:

Jim Wallis 9-18-2009

Glenn Beck has received a lot of attention for his inflammatory rhetoric lately. Recently, he shared a personal story about his daughter who has cerebral palsy, which gets to the heart of his fears about health-care reform:

I love my fellow citizens who have taken to the street against President Obama and his plans for health-care reform.
Members of Sojourners' action alert list have received the first three messages of a week-long campaign on truth-telling in the health-care debate.
Julie Clawson 9-11-2009

So a friend of mine, Shelton Green, has started an organization to help fight human trafficking -- What's Your Response.

Beverly Pratt 9-08-2009

I am a Latina sociologist and an activist-in-training who has spent substantial time with scholars and activists studying U.S. Latina/o communities from both professional and personal viewpoints.

Jeffrey Buchanan 9-02-2009

This will be the first year congressional leaders and President Obama won't travel to the Gulf Coast to honor the anniversary of our nation's largest disaster.

Ruth Hawley-Lowry 8-28-2009

Forty-six years ago, on Aug. 28, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech [full video below]. And even this sentence reveals one of the fundamental struggles that continues in our nation.

Shane Claiborne 8-28-2009
As we remember the eighth anniversary of the Sept.