House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) gives a keynote address at the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial conference in December 2011. He describes Palestinian culture as “infused with resentment and hatred” and calls this the “root” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some conference More

Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights leader, at the Democratic National Convention, August 1964 Wikimedia Commons More

Jack Weinberg, a UC Berkeley student leader of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, sits in a police car after having been arrested for recruiting students to participate in civil rights demonstrations. “Never trust anyone over thirty” is said to have been coined by him after university officials More

Aug. 28, 1963. President Kennedy with leaders of the March on Washington including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and Rabbi Joachim Prinz. More

Ypsilanti Historical Society The leaders of the black social gospel movement, including AME Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom, often faced opposition from their own congregations. Here, an AME congregation is assembled at Brown Chapel AME Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan. More

Radically horizontal structures put a check on leaders’ authority—but at what cost? Here, protesters at Occupy Sydney in 2011 take part in a consensus-building exercise. Creative Commons/Kate Ausburn More

Cassandra Conlin Conservative lawmakers and business leaders continue to exalt Atlas Shrugged as a kind of right-wing Bible. Why does this book excite so many? Might progressives have something to learn from its call to uncage our creative desire? More

Spirit in Action Members of Standing in Our Power, an intergenerational network of women of color leaders associated with Spirit in Action, work to integrate spirit and a sense of interconnection more fully into their social transformation work. More

Tim B. Gilman ( timmyroland.com ) Tony Campolo talks with Archbishop Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Christian leader. The Palestinian church, he writes, has the potential to help heal the deep psychological wounds of Israelis and Palestinians through empathetic listening. More

Farm crews prepare weekly Health Care Shares of fresh produce for distribution to food-insecure Vermonters. Farm Crew Leader Jeremy Schleining (left), with crew members Sumitra Acharya (middle) and Olivia Camp-Allen (right). Caelan Keenan More

Lutherans and others within the anti-Semitic Deutsche Christen movement worked to align German Protestantism with Nazi goals. Here, Nazis inaugurate Deutsche Christen leader Ludwig Müller as Reich Bishop in 1934 at the Berliner Dom. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Deutsches Bundesarchiv. More

Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath—a leader of Reform Judaism—join forces for the March for Peace on February 6, 1968. The Reform movement helped mobilize support for civil rights and condemned the U.S. government’s prejudiced policies. It has not shown More

of Cleveland, Ohio, and student leaders to conduct interviews about racial fairness in the justice system. More

Tuvalu, a low-lying island in the Pacific Ocean, is already suffering the effects of rising seas due to climate change. Pleading with world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Tuvalu climate negotiator Ian Fry said, “The fate of my country rests in your hands.” Photo More

The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) provides employment, leadership training, and mentoring to at-risk youth. Farm Crew Leader Jeremy Schleining (left, foreground), with summer farm crew members (left to right) Olivia Camp-Allen, Sumitra Acharya, Joe Preston, Ethan Spier, Tracy Streeter More