Americans get their pick of backbreaking farm jobs.
The United Farm Workers, the organization famous for their successful grape boycotts and union drives in the 60's, '70's and 80's, have launched a campaign to set the record straight about migrant farm workers and their role in the US economy.Read more
On Thursday, April 22nd, Jethro Heiko, Strategic Organizing Director for the Action Mill spoke at the Academy of Natural Sciences on planning and development issues facing the Delaware Riverfront. Jethro spoke about the value of resident participation, community organizing and planning in the successful efforts to save Fenway Park and related these experiences to the ongoing efforts to defeat casinos proposed for Philadelphia's waterfront while advancing a sustainable, public waterfront for Philadelphia.Read more
The Fundred Project aims to de-lead New Orleans by changing the exchange rate.
The Fundred Dollar Bill Project was started by artist Mel Chin when he visited New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Mel realized that the hurricane was only the latest disaster to hit the city, and he started talking with people about the grossly elevated levels of lead in the soil – levels that are doing serious damage to children every day. Read more
Ministers of the Maldive Islands will hold a cabinet meeting under water on October 17th to demonstrate the threat that rising sea levels pose to their country. The cabinet is taking scuba lessons in preparation for the meeting, and will communicate with whiteboards and hand signals.Read more
Creating a public park takes years of planning and work. Or, you could use a quarter.
Rebar, A San Francisco art collective, started converting parking spaces into temporary public parks back in 2005. They discovered a loophole in the San Francisco County legal code that leaves open the possibility of occupying a metered space with something other than a car.Read more
Instead of a ticket, a hug and a helmet from Danish police.
Most of the time, when you see the words YouTube, police and bicyclists in the same sentence, it does not end well. Now imagine if that cop had hugged the guy. Absurd, I know, except the Danes are doing it. How better to encourage bicyclists to protect their heads than to give them a hug and a free helmet?Read more
Pieing is the act of pulling the king down to the jester's level, but it has gone stale.
Throwing a pie at a public figure nudges up against the outer edges of what we consider non-violent action (we believe in non-violence both for tactical and moral reasons) but we're fans of working on the edges, so when someone throws a pie, we generally give them the benefit of the doubt. Pieing was originally a staple of slapstick comedy, popularized by the Keystone Cops and Laurel & Hardy almost a century ago.Read more
(Bring Your Own Bike lane) Wishing for a bike lane for your commute? Make your own.
(Bring Your Own Bike lane)
It's still in the concept phase, but the concept behind the LightLane is pure Action is the Message. Critical Mass is one of our favorite examples of how people can create the world they want to live in, and the LightLane, if it ever goes into production, would be like its little sister, but made out of freakin' lasers.
Acorn is rolling out a campaign to connect local volunteers with people facing foreclosure.
This is what the internet is for:
The community organizing group Acorn unveiled the campaign with a spirited rally on Friday at a Brooklyn church and will roll it out in at least 22 other cities in the coming weeks. Through phone trees, Web pages and text-messaging networks, the effort will connect families facing eviction with volunteers who will stand at their side as officers arrive, even if it means risking arrest.Read more
Billboards are filled with altered people. Street artists in Berlin reminded people by altering billboards.
We're confronted every day with images of people who don't exist — magazine covers, billboards, advertisements; if someone's trying to sell you something, they've more than likely been photoshopped with a vengeance But that can be easy to forget, so how do you remind people that the billboard they're looking at has been digitally altered? Put Photoshop right back into the image, like street artists Epoxy, Mr Talion, Baveux & Kone did in Berlin.Read more
The Fundred Dollar Bill Project was started by artist Mel Chin when he visited New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Mel realized that the hurricane was only the latest disaster to hit the city, and he started talking with people about the grossly elevated levels of lead in the soil – levels that are doing serious damage to children every day. 
Ministers of the Maldive Islands will hold a cabinet meeting under water on October 17th to demonstrate the threat that rising sea levels pose to their country. The cabinet is taking scuba lessons in preparation for the meeting, and will communicate with whiteboards and hand signals.
Most of the time, when you see the words YouTube, police and bicyclists in the same sentence, it 
Throwing a pie at a public figure nudges up against the outer edges of what we consider non-violent action (we believe in non-violence both for tactical and moral reasons) but we're fans of working on the edges, so when someone throws a pie, we generally give them the benefit of the doubt. Pieing was originally a staple of slapstick comedy, popularized by the Keystone Cops and Laurel & Hardy almost a century ago.
