Kelly VanPelt and Morgan Elzey Rae Abileah (center) takes part in the Gaza Freedom March, a nonviolent mass protest in Gaza in December 2009. A year and a half later, she was injured by AIPAC volunteer lobbyist Stanley Shulster after protesting at Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress. More

Native American Health Center “Native American concepts of difference are informed by the interdependent structure of traditional Native American communities,” the author writes. More

Library of Congress Neoliberalism’s exaltation of market-centered values has created a distorted moral economy that elevates prosperity above all else. To resist this neoliberal turn, we need an analysis of how identity and class politics come together. More

Creative Commons/British Museum/ ancientartpodcast.org Amitabha Buddha sits at the center of this eighth-century Chinese painting, The Paradise of Amitabha Buddha. More

Taylor C. Hall ( tchallmedia.wordpress.com ) Members of Occupy the Judge Rotenberg Center demonstrate outside the FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. More

Anthony Bieniak Ranjini’s newborn baby Paartheepan (Paari) sleeps in a bed at Australia’s Villawood Detention Center, where he was born into incarceration. More

Deepak Lamba-Neives The construction of Boca Canasta’s water tower (left), primary school (center), and cemetery (right) were all made possible through collaborative efforts of migrants and local residents. More

Deepak Lamba-Neives The construction of Boca Canasta’s water tower (left), primary school (center), and cemetery (right) were all made possible through collaborative efforts of migrants and local residents. More

Deepak Lamba-Neives The construction of Boca Canasta’s water tower (left), primary school (center), and cemetery (right) were all made possible through collaborative efforts of migrants and local residents. More

Last October a group of primarily Latina mothers sat in at this Chicago public school to get the school district to build a library and community center instead of selling part of the school property to a neighboring private school. More

Ann Northrup/The Mural Arts Program of the City of Philadelphia © 2003 (Photo by Jack Ramsdale) Images of queer history and culture appear in this mural, Pride and Progress , which Ann Northrup painted on the side of the William Way LGBTQ Community Center in Philadelphia. More

“Telling stories is one way of resisting the widespread transactional quality of interactions in our society,” Raj writes. Here, participants in a Center for Story-Based Strategy training discuss how a story’s frame defines what is seen and what is left out. Scott Braley ( scottbraley.com ) More

Wages are no longer increasing as they did from 1820 through 1970. As unemployment rates soar, Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Here people line up for a hot meal at Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Creative Commons/Jim Stipe. More

LB How might the ability to see analogies between others’ traumas and our own make us more able to see ourselves as part of an interconnected community? Downtown Vancouver emerges from foliage in this photo taken by a participant in the WISH Drop-in Center for survival sex workers. More