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Published in: TransformationCan Facebook damage your mental health?
Studies are starting to reveal how social media are changing our lives—for better and for worse.
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Published in: TransformationRemembering Leslie Feinberg: a queer and trans fighter for justice
Author and activist Leslie Feinberg died this week, just before Transgender Day of Remembrance. As the opposite of a...
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Published in: TransformationThe ordinary, extraordinary life of David Hartsough
Nonviolent action is a seamless part of the rhythm of life. A review of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a...
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Published in: TransformationSeven practical ideas for compassionate communities
It's not hard to bring more equality into each other’s lives. Here are seven concrete ideas and experiments.
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Published in: TransformationThe extinction of quiet
As the world’s silent places disappear, are we forgetting how to listen?
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Published in: TransformationFacing up to the capitalist within
It’s easy to blame the economic system for causing social and environmental problems, but what is that system built...
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Published in: TransformationLea's story: my days as a mad girl
In immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them...
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Published in: TransformationAn unexpected cloud of witnesses: Sister Rice replies
Collective recognition is more important than the raising up of icons: there is no mastermind in the transformation...
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Published in: TransformationWhat I learned about living from dying of cancer
What makes for a good death in a just and sustainable world? A lifelong activist reflects.
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Published in: TransformationThe French art world is on strike - why aren't we?
The fight to defend the artists' wage is raging across France, yet today in the UK we believe the arts should be a...
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Published in: TransformationDorothy Day and Thomas Merton: two journeys to wholeness
Two lives show that a truly integrated existence—a life-long process of personal and political transformation—lies...
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Published in: TransformationThe greatest coping strategy is helping others: a conversation with Liberian activist B. Abel Learwellie
You can’t ambush a virus with a bullet. A former child soldier speaks out on Ebola in Liberia.
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Published in: TransformationLove, faith and economic justice
Transformation doesn’t fit into neat and tidy boxes. Intangible emotions are just as important to social change as...
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Published in: TransformationDale Farm: an eviction anniversary
While at Dale Farm, I consider myself to have witnessed an incidence of ethnic cleansing. Basildon Council argued...
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Published in: TransformationHow did Gandhi win?
What underpins the transformative impact of campaigning? Short term success or failure may be a poor guide to the future.
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Published in: TransformationThe young Roma women who are changing their communities
Eleni wants to go to school. She can read and write already and says emphatically: “I don’t want to be given to get...
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Published in: TransformationSyria's White Helmets: the most dangerous job in the world
A group of tailors, teachers and construction workers have now saved more than 2,500 people from bomb attacks.
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Published in: TransformationSix ways to bring more empathy to the internet
How can web users promote more empathetic interaction online? This is the fifth installment in our series on social...
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Published in: TransformationSocial cleansing not social housing: how councils use poor people against themselves
This week Focus E15 Mothers showed how London councils are prising out tenants, replacing their homes with expensive...
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Published in: TransformationWatch: My name is Lucky. I'm 34, an Aries, and I'm trans
Gender has moved away from a binary understanding of male and female tickboxes, to a more fluid space, a gender...