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• Idea Lab
  • A Tale of Power & Vision
  • Racial Justice Education Framework
  • MVL Podcast: Andy Stern, SEIU
  • MVL Podcast: Elizabeth Crowe, Chemical Weapons Working Group
  • MVL Podcast: Denise Perry, Power U for Social Change
  • MVL Podcast: Burt Lauderdale, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
  • COLORS Restaurant
  • Other Worlds
  • The Importance of Public Post-Secondary Education
  • Protecting Public Education From Tax Giveaways to Corporations
  • Pre-School for All: Investing in a Productive and Just Society
  • A Paradigm Shift in our Concept of Education
  • Jack and the Giant School
  • My Pedagogic Creed
  • Universal Preschool
  • Captive Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressures On Kids At School
  • The Hobbit Effect: Why Small Works in Public Schools
  • Rethinking Schools Online
  • TURNing Unions Around
  • School Reform, TURN, and Teacher Compensation
  • Organic Education
  • Recreating Schools for All Children
  • Common Cause Election Reform Agenda
  • Progressive Agenda for Election Reform 2006
  • Municipal Right to Vote Action Plan: The Next Step Toward a Fully Protected Right to Vote
  • Proportional Representation
  • Open Ballot Voting - Our (not so) Secret Weapon
  • Reform Options for the Electoral College
  • Breaking Free with Fair Elections: A New Declaration of Independence for Congress
  • Redistricting for Inclusive Democracy
  • Reforms to Enhance Independent Redistricting
  • Instant Runoff Voting
  • Clean Elections
  • Instant Runoff Voting
  • Ownership Matters
  • Get Creative
  • 10 Policies to Fix our Media
  • Looming Shifts in the Landscape: Insights from remarkable people inside and outside the independent media field
  • FreeCulture Manifesto
  • Welcome to the Media Revolution
  • Public Radio's Social Media Experiments
  • Many to Many: Public Media and the Blogosphere
  • Share the Music
  • A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing
  • Community Internet: Broadband as Community Service
  • Broadband Bill of Rights
  • Low Power Radio
  • Rethinking the Discourse on Race: A Symposium on How Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy
  • Justice By Any Name
  • The Media Consortium
  • The Promise of Low Power FM
  • Full Power Step by Step
  • Suggested HRA Actions to Improve the Welfare System
  • Give Bigger Government A Chance: For too long, we've bought the idea that government has failed us
  • The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More For Their Economic Development Dollar
  • Unified Development Budgets
  • A Matter of Trust: How the Revolving Door Undermines Public Confidence in Government - And What to Do About It
  • Municipal Enterprise
  • State Asset Building Initiatives
  • The Case for Wage Insurance
  • Let the People Decide: Transformative Community Development Through Participatory Budgeting in Canada
  • The Citizens of Porto Alegre: In Which Marco Borrows Bus Fare and Enters Politics
  • ParticipatoryBudgeting.org: A Resource and Forum on Participatory Budgeting and Other Forms of Participatory Democracy
  • What We Need To Do About the 'Burbs
  • The Future of Racial Justice
  • Environmental Justice For All Tour '06: Videos & Blog
  • Dismantle Racial Isolation in Public School Education
  • America's Economic Agenda: Women's Voices for Solutions
  • Community Accountability Within the People of Color Progressive Movement
  • Building a 21st Century Transnational Women's Movement: A Collective Statement of Shared Vision
  • The Men's Movement of Choice
  • Alternatives for the Americas: Gender Equity
  • Beyond Same Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families and Relationships
  • Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
  • What is Restorative Justice?
  • Howard Zehr's Changing Lenses
  • Reentry: Helping Former Prisoners Return to Communities
  • Rethinking Prisons and Justice
  • What is "Restorative Justice"? And Why Don't Illinois Offenders Get it?
  • Reducing Criminal Recidivism
  • Community-Centered Policing: A Force for Change
  • Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform
  • A Culture of Caring
  • It's Time to Get Smart on Crime: The Case Against Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences
  • A New Way of Life: Re-entry Project
  • Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Reforming the Juvenile Justice System
  • Transformational Organizing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  • Tuning Up Our Yin-Yang
  • Imagine, Act, Believe: A Framework for Learning and Results in Community Change Initiatives
  • Community Organizing: A Populist Base for Social Equity and Smart Growth
  • Getting Ahead: New Approaches to Generating Jobs and Opportunities for Residents of Low Income Communities
  • Women Organizing Women: How Do We Rock the Boat Without Being Thrown Overboard?
  • Grace Lee Boggs
  • Another World is Necessary; Another World is Possible; Another World Has Already Started
  • Reconnecting People and Politics
  • Marshall Ganz on Civic Participation and Effective Organizing
  • What is Organizing?
  • Organization Development for Social Change: An Integrated Approach to Community Transformation
  • So You Wanna Build a Movement: An Equation for Building Progressive Power
  • Changing the Story: Story Based Strategies for Direct Action Planning
  • Are you Mentoring for Social Justice
  • Organizing Community-wide Dialogue for Action and Change
  • Decent Work; Decent Life
  • Choosing the High Road: Business That Pay a Living Wage and Prosper
  • Living Wage Act
  • The Living Wage Movement
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
  • Cooperatives
  • Cooperativization as Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism
  • What is a Worker Cooperative?
  • Big Box Toolkit: Countering Mega-Retailers - Rebuilding Local Business
  • The Silent War: The Assault on Workers’ Freedom to Choose a Union and Bargain Collectively in the United States
  • Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants
  • Socially Responsible Investment
  • Calvert: An Introduction to Socially Responsible Investing
  • Capitalism 3.0
  • Natural Capitalism
  • Solidarity Economics: Strategies for Building New Economies From the Bottom-up and the Inside-out
  • Vision Statement
  • Alternatives for the Americas
  • Defending our Common Wealth
  • From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half
  • Accountability for Economic Development Subsidies
  • Connecting Families to Jobs
  • Home Is Where the Work Is: Inside New York's Domestic Work Industry
  • Lighting Up the Dark Store: Communities Re-Using the Big Box
  • Solidarity Economics: An Alternative for Development, Equity, Social Justice, and Peace in Colombia
  • Saving the World - from the Wealthy
  • Housing Trust Fund Project
  • Home Sweet Home: Why America Needs a National Housing Trust Fund
  • The Ahwahnee Principles
  • Ahwahnee Principles for Resource-Efficient Communities
  • The Community Land Trust Model
  • Community Land Trusts: Leasing Land for Affordable Housing
  • Community Land Trusts
  • Burlington Community Land Trust: Affordable Homes and Vital Communities in Northwest Vermont
  • First Homes: Rochester Area Foundation
  • Land Trusts as Part of a Threefold Economic Strategy for Regional Integration
  • Community Land Trusts Directory
  • Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing
  • Progressive Agenda for State Housing Policy 2007
  • The Metropolis Principles: A Commitment by Chicago Area Business Leaders to Bring Housing, Transportation, and Jobs Closer Together
  • Building a Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities
  • Shared Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America’s Older Core Cities
  • Equitable Development Toolkit
  • Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable
  • Wal-Mart and the Future of Urban America
  • Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative that Worked. CCRP in the South Bronx.
  • The People's Plan for Jobs, Housing, and Community
  • Social Housing, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Community Economic Development
  • Share the Wealth
  • The Jobs Are Back in Town: Urban Smart Growth & Construction Employment
  • Race, Equity, and Smart Growth: Why People of Color Must Speak for Themselves
  • World Charter on the Right to the City
  • Right to the City
  • Right to the City: Take Back the City!
  • Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Transit
  • Making the Connection: Transit-Oriented Development and Jobs
  • No Fares!
  • Building a Great Transit System for the Chicago Region
  • Freeing the Grid: How Effective State Metering Laws Can Revolutionize U.S. Energy Policy
  • By the People, For the People: Toward a Community-owned, Decentralized Biofuel Future
  • Sustainable Biomass Land Reserves for a Sustainable Future
  • Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook
  • Climate: A Crisis Averted
  • Sustainable Table: Serving Up Healthy Food Choices
  • The Meatrix
  • Store Wars
  • A Fair Farm Bill for Public Health
  • Ownership Matters: Three Steps to Ensure a Biofuels Industry That Truly Benefits America
  • The Once and Future Carbohydrate Economy
  • Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade in the Era of Climate Change, Dumping, and Rural Poverty
  • 10 Ways to Get Healthy Local Foods into Low-income Neighborhoods: A Minneapolis Resource Guide
  • Climate Neutral Bonding: Building Global Warming Solutions at the State and Local Level
  • Global Warning: Women Matter!
  • IATP Sustainable Biomass Production: Principles and Practices
  • Slow Food USA: About Us
  • Carpe Diem
  • Green Guide for Health Care
  • Carbon Neutral City
  • Grass House
  • On the Benefits of Small Farms
  • Marketing Sustainable Agriculture: Case Studies and Analysis From Europe
  • Sustainable Agriculture: Making Money, Making Sense
  • Addressing Climate Change and Providing New Opportunities for Farmers
  • Building Healthy Communities From the Ground Up: Environmental Justice in California
  • Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Objectives
  • NativeEnergy: Bringing New Renewables to Market
  • Broken Limbs: Searching for the New American Farmer
  • Habitat in Agricultural Landscapes: 10 Ways You Can Protect and Enhance Biodiversity on Your Farm
  • Beyond Eco-Apartheid
  • Our Future Now: Inspiring Communities to Become the Leaders in Ecological Responsibility
  • Green Development for Environmental Justice & Healthy Communities
  • The Oak Point Eco-Industrial Park: A Sustainable Economic Development Proposal for the South Bronx
  • Growing Power: Milwaukee, Chicago, …Or Your Own Community
  • Added Value
  • Toward Tomorrow: A Common Agenda for Health & Environment
  • UN Reform for the Rest of Us: An Agenda for Grassroots Accountability
  • Developing International Democracy for a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations: A Strategy Paper of the Committee for a Democratic UN
  • A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility
  • Beyond Borders: American Foreign Policy Must Look Beyond the Nation State and Toward Human Security
  • Declaration: Addressing the Global Economic Crisis
  • The World Trade Organisation - An Australian Guide
  • Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade
  • UNCTAD XI: Challenging the Commodity Crisis
  • Trade, Agriculture, and Climate Change: How Agricultural Trade Policies Fuel Climate Change
  • A World Without the WTO
  • Thinking Outside the Box About Trade, Development, and Poverty Reduction
  • Ten Ways to Democratize the Global Economy
  • Fair Trade For Our Future Resolution
  • A People's Trade Agreement
  • U.S. Food Aid: Time to Get It Right
  • Breaking Ground: The Community Food Security Movement
  • Anti Poverty or Anti Poor: The Millennium Development Goals and the Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger
  • Just Security: An Alternative Foreign Policy Framework
  • Debt Relief Works
  • Poverty Has No Borders
  • For All The Ways They Say They Are, No One Is Illegal
  • Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law
  • Principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
  • Making the Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Resource Guide
  • Comprehensive Reform of our Immigration Laws
  • Attracting the Best and the Brightest: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Skill-based Immigration Policy
  • Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter
  • Achieving Security and Prosperity: Migration and North American Economic Integration
  • More Than a "Temporary" Fix: The Role of Permanent Immigration in Comprehensive Reform
  • Drugs, Thugs, and Trade: Border Control in an Era of Hemispheric Economic Integration
  • Workers Control Not Immigration Controls
  • Immigration and Open Borders
  • Affordable Health Care for All: What Does Affordable Really Mean?
  • It's Our Healthcare!
  • Responding to the Crisis: Full Health Coverage for Washington's Children
  • Federal Medicaid Reform: Working Paper
  • Medicaid: Good Medicine For State Economies
  • SCHIP and Children's Health Coverage: Leveling the Playing Field for Minority Children
  • Medicare: A National Treasure for Forty Years
  • Closing the Gap: Solutions to Race-Based Health Disparities
  • Access to Medicines
  • Proposal for a global ‘'Right to Health and Health Care Campaign" to be Launched by the People's Health Movement
  • Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities
  • Fixing Our Broken Food System
  • Re: Strengthening the Farm Bill to Reduce Childhood Obesity, and Improve our Environment and Nation’s Health
  • The Safety Net on the Edge
  • Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term
  • Eastside Community Cultural Center: Project Summary
  • Digital Futures: A Need-to-know Guide for Independent Filmmakers
  • Building Community
  • The Revolution Will Be Digitized: ITVS Looks Ahead
  • Touring Strategy: Musicians Strengthening the Movement
  • Green Touring
  • Arts & Economic Prosperity: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts Organizations and Their Audiences
  • Burners Without Borders: Building Community Through Art and Action
  • Is There Liberation After Hip Hop?
  • Hip Hop as a Political Tool
  • Ground Rules and Tips for Challenging the Right
  • Intentional Community
  • MVL Podcast: Kate Rhee, Prison Moratorium Project
  • MVL Podcast with Gabe Gonzalez, Center for Community Change
  • Fair Trade: The Story
  • MVL Podcast: Bill Vandenberg, Colorado Progressive Coalition
  • MVL Podcast: Eddie Canales
  • Wall Street and the Making of the Subprime Disaster
  • What Democracy Looks Like - Where Neighborhood Voices Lead to Better Solutions
  • What Democracy Looks Like - When A Community Pulls Together to Face Growth
  • What Democracy Looks Like - Where Conversations About Race Create Ripples of Community
  • Where A Diverse Community Comes Together to Make Schools Better for All
  • What Democracy Looks Like - Where Deep Rooted Democratic Traditions Open the Way for Study Circles
  • Wall Street Investors Donate Holiday Bonuses to Foreclosure Victims
  • Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2007 Edition
  • Saving Our Middle Class: A Survey of New York's Leaders By the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
  • Lessons From The Marketplace: Four Proven Progressive Policies from DMI’s Marketplace of Ideas
  • A Theory Toward Building Socially Sustainable Communities
  • Leadership Handbook: Theory and Approach for Building Socially Sustainable Communities
  • African American and Hispanic Communities in East Palo Alto
  • Cultural Assets for Latino Community Building in East Palo Alto
  • Unequal Taxes on Equal Benefits: The Taxation of Domestic Partner Benefits
  • Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Sourcing: Abolishing Unfair Labor Practices and Addressing Their Root Causes
  • MVL Idea Lab Feed
  • Election ’08: A Pro-Civil Justice Presidential Platform
  • Homeless
  • Immigration Song
  • DMI on the 2008 State of the Union
  • What are Community Values?
  • Racial Justice Report Card
  • High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color
  • 2008 Taproots Fellowship Application
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  • We Need to Hear Candidates Debate Community Values
  • A New Economic Vision: From The Inside, Out
  • MVL Podcast with Burt Lauderdale, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
  • MVL Podcast with Denise Perry, Power U Center for Social Change
  • MVL Podcast with Andy Stern, SEIU
  • Theme of the Week: Re-thinking the Corporation
  • Progressive Self-Censorship: What Do We REALLY Want?
  • When The Corporate Race To The Bottom Hits Bottom
  • Welcome to the Movement Vision Lab: What Is An Idea?
  • In Search Of Democracy?
  • In the News: The Justice that Jena Demands