Topics: Community Organizing

This podcast features one group of community activists headed from the Northwest Bronx in New York to Chicago for the "Showdown in Chicago," as well as the perspective of National People’s Action Executive Director George Goehl. The group, long frustrated with the bank's propensity to ignore low-income communities like the Northwest Bronx, are protesting the American Bankers Association convention and demanding that Congress create oversight, accountability and common-sense financial reform that helps the people.

This is a short digital story (8 mins)  about a social action project called Arte Consciente in a favela called

My father worked too much in a terrible job. It made him a sad person.

This is the story of a "dynamic duo" from Tucson.

This is a story of how Willie Blake grew up on a small farm with family responsibilities and made a good life for himself and his community.

A meeting between her two granduncles teaches a young Vietnamese American about war and the bonds of family. She gains a more nuanced understanding of history which isn't often presented in either mainstream or Vietnamese-language media.

What is the value of Adult Education?  Why is it important to our communities, state, and country? In 2003, faced with a budget deficit, the Arizona State Legislature recommended complete elimination of state funding for adult education and family literacy.  The crisis marked the begining of a remarkable learning process about government and civic participation. 

Lucia made this story for a series of workshops on education sponsored by the Boston YWCA. She uses the piece frequently in her work as a community organizer to stimulate dialogue among parents about participation in the school system.

Julia reveals how she used her own personal experience with domestic violence to encourage other women in her neighborhood to seek help. This story is used as an organizing tool around family violence in the North End of Springfield, Massachusetts.

The storyteller talks about his community Roxbury, MA and how something needs to be done about the continual violence.