Due to the onset of winter and police crackdowns on encampments, Occupy movements in many cities have retreated from their initial tactics of long term public occupations. In this time of recalculating and rebuilding for the movement, a recent Occupier reflects back on ...
In 1995, 12-year-old Craig Kielburger was flipping through the Toronto Star looking for comics when he came across an article about the murder of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani child labor activist who was also 12. Upset by this story, Kielburger gathered a small ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by — or disconnected from — public schools. Over the next few weeks we'll be presenting a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in the field. ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by or disconnected from -- public schools. Starting today, and over the newt few weeks, we'll be featuring a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in ...
A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...
How would you go about creating a world where people live in peace? Rather than dismiss the question as hopelessly naive, think of it as a practical challenge. Where would you begin? Eric D. Dawson, the founder of Peace First, says the logical ...
Shortly after Gerald Chertavian landed a banking job on Wall Street in the late 1980s, he became a Big Brother to David Heredia, a ten-year old who lived in a low-income housing project in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Chertavian was moved by David’s ...
We thought our readers might enjoy a recent talk given by our founder, David Bornstein, at the Good Experience Live (Gel) conference in New York. It sheds light on our motivations for launching Dowser. In the first two minutes, David speaks about storytelling ...
Break out the champagne and mortarboards—it’s graduation time! A century and a half ago, abolitionist Robert Purvis said, “A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key ...
Adam Green believes in teaching 21st century job and life skills through old fashioned wooden boat building. The idea first infected him as a Vassar College student in 1996, when he spent a “semester abroad” volunteering at a middle school in East Harlem—one ...