Topics: Policy/Advocacy

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.

Six youth from the Kino Neighborhoods of Las Vistas, Western Hills, Pueblo Gardens and South Park were chosen to participate in a basic digital storytelling workshop. This is one of the stories. They share their voice to inspire a greater sense of community, understanding and awareness through a glimpse of their struggles and passions.

This is Elicia's story about her survival through the public healthcare system and her cerebal palsy as well as her journey to become the disability activist she is today.  This story was created through a workshop with the Michigan Disability Rights Coalition and UCP Michigan.

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

Xochitl describes her experience volunteering in Nicaragua.

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.

Primarily an audio story with brief images toward the end.  Piece was created to honor a fallen soldier, Matt Maupin on the morning they announced his body had been found in Iraq.

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. 

Change is never easy, especially when it is imposed upon us. In this story Thelma relates how she was able to adjust and adapt to a whole new life in a new country.

In Whose Hands explores issues of international maternal and child health, development, and research in the context of the producer's experiences in rural India.