Helping Neighborhoods Organize Themselves
A community garden. A voter-education campaign. A community center in a low-income apartment complex. These are some of the programs Charhonda Cox supports as [...]
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Organizing Asarco Workers
When he took the job at American Smelting and Refining Company in 1972, Carlos Rodriguez was proud to work at a plant that had [...]
Fighting for Public Health in Lubbock
When the city of Lubbock made a surprise bid to close its health department last July, psychologist Brian Carr made it his personal crusade [...]
Opposing the Border Wall
In 2007, before the Department of Homeland Security could bulldoze the first plot of land to build a wall along the U.S. border with [...]
Helping Victims Escape Domestic Violence
Shailey Gupta-Brietzke first became passionate about aiding survivors of domestic violence 10 years ago, while volunteering at a women’s shelter during college. It was [...]