‘Inequality Matters’, June 3, 2004
It is important from time to time to remember that some things are worth getting mad about.Here’s one: On March 10 of this year, on page B8, with a headline that stretched across all six columns, the...
View ArticleSocial Activist Grace Lee Boggs
“The struggle we’re dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the ’60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?” — Grace Lee BoggsAbout Grace Lee BoggsAt 91, Grace Lee Boggs has...
View ArticleHoward Zinn on the Power of People
Howard Zinn died at the age of 87 on January 27, 2010.“They’re willing to let people think about mild reforms and little changes, and incremental changes, but they don’t want people to think that we...
View ArticleHow Can Ordinary People Fight Citizens United?
Question From: lwkaiserExpand [+]Full TranscriptPrint TranscriptBILL MOYERS: Many of you have asked what you can do to fight back. Here are some thoughts. First, take yourself seriously as an agent of...
View ArticleWhy Age and Race Matter in Activism
After Bill’s conversation with community organizer George Goehl, Goehl mentioned he had five things he wished he’d had a chance to say in the interview, including points about overcoming low economic...
View ArticleCarne Ross: Nine Principles for Action
Former British diplomat and international relations specialist Carne Ross lays out nine principles for empowering ourselves and effecting change in the issues that concern us.UPDATE: April 5, 2012 —...
View ArticleTen Documentaries On Champions of Social Justice
Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters. The 10 powerful films below are not a complete list of films about social...
View ArticleCarne Ross on Being an Agent of Change
If you’re disillusioned about government, know that you aren’t entirely powerless to create change. So says Bill’s guest Carne Ross. Once the rising star of British diplomacy and now a global activist,...
View ArticleFrancine Wheeler and Peter Yarrow on Music’s Power in Social Movements
Francine Wheeler, whose youngest son was killed in the December 14th attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, joins folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame to discuss the...
View ArticleFrancine and David Wheeler on Turning Tragedy into Transformation
Francine and David Wheeler’s youngest son Ben was one of the 20 children killed in the December 14th attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Their grief has led them to Sandy...
View ArticleMoyers Moment (1994): Pete Seeger on What it Takes to Change the World
During the Great Depression, Pete Seeger and his friend Woody Guthrie traveled together from town to town, Seeger with his banjo and Guthrie with his guitar, playing music in exchange for meals. Later,...
View ArticlePeter Yarrow, Dar Williams and Victims’ Parents Perform in Newtown
In February, David and Francine Wheeler, the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy, joined notable musicians including Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary and the folk singer Dar...
View ArticleMoyers Moment (1990): Johnny Cash on Our Personal Prisons
In the 1990 documentary Amazing Grace, Bill Moyers looks at how one song has changed people’s lives across America, from church choirs to opera singers to prison inmates. In this clip, Johnny Cash...
View ArticleSinging for Solidarity and Social Change
One of music’s most powerful attributes is its ability to bring people together around a cause, a theme Bill has explored many times with a variety of artists. Below, we’ve excerpted four of those...
View ArticleFull Show: The Sandy Hook Promise
Francine and David Wheeler’s youngest son Ben was one of the 20 children killed in the December 14th attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Their grief has led them to Sandy...
View ArticleMoyers Moment (1991): Bernice Johnson Reagon on ‘This Little Light of Mine’
Bernice Johnson Reagon — a singer, song leader, civil rights activist and scholar — was an integral part of the African American struggle for civil rights. In the ’60s she helped found the Student...
View ArticleMarshall Ganz on the Myth of the Free Market
In a conversation with Bill, professor, organizer and activist Marshall Ganz challenges the notion of the ‘free market’ as an effective way to address our economic, political, and moral issues....
View ArticlePreview: How People Power Generates Change
With our democracy threatened by plutocrats and the politicians in their pockets more than ever, the antidote to organized money is organized people. It takes time and effort, but across the country,...
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How to Tell Your ‘Story of Self’
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz is is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Stephan...
View ArticleFull Show: How People Power Generates Change
With our democracy threatened by plutocrats and the politicians in their pockets more than ever, the antidote to organized money is organized people. It takes time and effort, but across the country,...
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