A Blueprint for Reparations in the U.S.
A TED talk, featuring a conversation with William “Sandy” Darity, an economist and author of From Here to Equality, who discusses how... Read More
A Creative Approach to Community Climate Action
A TED Talk featuring eco-artist Xavier Cortada, who founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage... Read More
A Global Movement to Solve Global Problems
A TED Talk, featuring activist Colombe Cahen-Salvador, who says that we need to think beyond national borders to solve global problems. Reimagining... Read More
A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA
A TED talk by Ron Finley telling the story of a group that plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in... Read More
A Thousand Times No
A TED talk featuring art historian Bahia Shehab, who began to spray the Arabic script for ‘no’ in the streets, saying ‘no’... Read More
Be Courageous! A Call to Speak Up for What You Believe
A TED Talk, featuring journalist and editor Bari Weiss, who looks at some of the major issues that are widening the political... Read More
Bending the Arc
A documentary that tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas... Read More
Catholic Social Teaching
A resource from Liturgy Training Publications, outlines the social dimension of the church’s mission as found in the Gospel and tradition and... Read More
Countering Online Hate Speech
This 6 minute video from Teaching Tolerance, offers specific suggestions and strategies to interrupt and redirect online harassment. Watch now.
Fight Injustice with Raw Video
Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS — and... Read More
Fighting for a More Perfect Union: Protest and Politics in America
A collection from PBS American Experience, featuring lifts, digital shorts, articles and additional content from their film archive that speak to the... Read More
Fighting with Nonviolence
A TED talk featuring Scilla Elworthy, who maps out the skills needed — as nations and individuals — to fight extreme force... Read More
How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement
A TED Talk featuring Asha Curran, CEO of the global generosity movement GivingTuesday, who says that “we underestimate the power of our... Read More
How I Became an Activist
A TED talk, featuring Ory Okolloh, who tells the story of her life and her family — and how she came to... Read More
How to Be a Professional Trouble Maker
A TED Talk featuring author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, who says that disrupting the status quo can be scary, but sometimes it’s necessary... Read More
How to Fund Real Change in Your Community
A TED Talk, featuring philanthropic advisor Rebecca Darwent, who cites the success of collective giving practices from around the world and suggests... Read More
How to Make Peace — Get Angry
A TED talk featuring Kailash Satyarthi who shares the story of how he helped free over 80,000 children in India from slavery... Read More
John Lewis: Good Trouble
A documentary that explores the ‘good trouble’ instigated by the late civil rights activist John Lewis. Learn more.
One Day of Peace
A TED talk featuring Jeremy Gilley, who tells the story of persuading the world to try living in peace for just one... Read More
Preaching the Just Word
A resource from Liturgy Training Publications, contains a montage of presentations, conversations and interviews that can expand one’s vision of justice and... Read More
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
By Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson. Provides ideas to help one feel safer, more empowered, invested in, and intrinsic... Read More
Summit for Change Conversations
An audio file of a Sojourners gathering in Washington D.C, with a diverse group of faith leaders, activists, artists, scholars, entrepreneurs and... Read More
The Dangers of Willful Blindness
A TED talk, featuring Gayla Benefield, who shares the story of uncovering a secret about her hometown that its mortality rate was... Read More
The Nuns, The Priests and The Bombs
A documentary that follows a community of peace activists, including two Catholic nuns and a Jesuit priest in their eighties, who challenge... Read More
The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance
A TED talk featuring Jamila Raqib, who shares examples of creative strategies that have led to change around the world and a... Read More
The Shocking Movement to Criminalize Nonviolent Protests
A TED talk, featuring investigative journalist, Will Potter, who speaks about his experience of peaceful protest branded as terrorism. Read more.
The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
A TED Talk featuring Erica Chenoweth, who discusses her research on the historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century. She... Read More
Turning Powerful Stats into Art
A TED talk, featuring artist Chris Jordan, who uses supersized images to express huge statistics about society — like the astonishing number... Read More
Using Your Voice is a Political Choice
A TED Talk featuring Amanda Gorman — the youngest inaugural poet in US history. She says that poetry is for everyone, and... Read More
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
A resource that honors the legacy and impact of the men and women who championed racial equity in the United States. The... Read More
Want to Be an Activist? Start with Your Toys
A TED Talk featuring McKenna Pope who discusses her successful effort to get the Hasbro toy company to create and market a... Read More
Want to Change the World? Start by Being Brave Enough to Care
A TED Talk by Cleo Wade, who advocates for love and acceptance between stories of people at the beginning and end of... Read More
What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen of the World?
A TED Talk with Hugh Evans discussing a movement that mobilizes “global citizens,” people who self-identify first and foremost not as members... Read More
What It Takes to Create Social Change Against All Odds
A TED Talk, featuring political activist, Ralph Nader, who traces his time advocating for change and how he helped catalyze social progress... Read More
Why the World Needs More Builders — And Less “Us vs. Them”
A TED Talk, featuring Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Snacks, who talks about how we’re programmed to think every issue is... Read More
With This Light
A documentary that tells the story of Sister María Rosa Leggol, a Franciscan nun who helped more than 80,000 Honduran children escape... Read More
Witness at Tornillo
A documentary about Josh Rubin’s vigil to close a child internment center in Tornillo, Texas and the Homestead child camp in Florida.... Read More
Writing Letters to the Editor
In this brief video from a Network training session, press secretary Lee Morrow shows how and why writing letters to editors can... Read More