by Colleen Donovan On Friday, February 22, the Indiana County Center for Community Growth, a grassroots progressive organization, launched its film series with The Economics of Happiness (2011) at the Indiana Theater. […]
Sustainable Art at Pitt
by K. Briar Somerville Look out for the bottle panther! A group of four Pitt students interested in promoting sustainability awareness have teamed up with Plant-to-Plate to erect a new panther sculpture […]
Reginald Roberts Receives Social Work Award
by Jonathan Reyes Reginald “Reggie” Roberts, a member of B-PEP, the Coalition Against Violence, Ceasefire PA and several other non-profit organizations, recently received the David E. Epperson Award, named for the late […]
Don Fisher’s Reflections on Civil Disobedience
by Bette McDevitt Father Don Fisher, a founding member of the Merton Center, had a habit of taking long walks along Braddock Avenue in East Hills to prepare the sermons for his […]
Organizing for Fair Budget Priorities
by Jo Schlesinger Are you concerned about the cuts in essential federal economic and social programs through the sequestration and deep cuts made in the current State budget? We know that people […]
The #NoSweat Campaign: Pitt Students Fight for Workers’ Rights
by Marko Gudic Students at the University of Pittsburgh are taking a stand against sweatshops. The #NoSweat Campaign, spearheaded by the student group Americans for Informed Democracy (AIDPitt) and joined by over […]
Working Across the Generations
by Anne E. Lynch I’ve frequently discussed the concept of intersectionality in my series of columns in The New People about organizing. It’s one of my favorite words and topics. Today, however, […]
Just what are the plans for August 31? Strategize with Codepink
On August 31st, the government will begin a partial withdraw of troops from Iraq, leaving behind 50,000 troops, 75,000 paid contractors, and the memory of the deaths of thousands of US military, […]
