Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai achieved global fame in 2012 when she was shot in the face by the Taliban for speaking publicly on behalf of girls’ education. When she recovered, she continued her activism, writing a memoir, I am Malala, which was published in 2013 and spent more than 52 weeks on the New York Times’ bestsellers list. In 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize […]
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Serving Life takes viewers inside Louisiana’s maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. With such long sentences, 85% of inmates will never return to their communities or live in the outside world. They will grow old and die in Angola. To deal with that reality, warden Burl Cain in 1997 created an extraordinary hospice program to care for dying inmates. The program is […]
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The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism and State Socialism In this videotaped lecture, historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz explains how “the next American revolution” is already under way in thousands of communities across the U.S. in the form of co-ops and community land trusts and municipal, state, and federal initiatives that promote entrepreneurship and sustainability. Alperovitz draws upon years of research to show how bottom-up strategies can work […]
Indigenous Leadership
Return of the River tells the inspirational story of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s unshakeable advocacy on behalf of their ancestral home, the Elwha River. It took 100 years and the help of environmentalists, conservationists, the Olympia National Park, and ultimately, common citizens whose minds were changed, to bring down two dams and restore the river—and its legendary salmon runs—to freedom. As one reviewer wrote, “At a time when most […]
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