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No Money, No Cry

Grassroots Fundraising Journal featured Ruckus’s story of success in the face of financial insecurity

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KPFA interview about economy

Ruckus E.D. Adrienne Maree Brown appeared on KPFA‘s radio show Full Circle March 27, 2009, to talk about how Ruckus is weathering the economic storm

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In The News

In addition to turning out powerful leaders and building skills across communities and issues, our unique and creative actions and camps gain much needed media

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Single-Payer Healthcare – Two Visions of Healthcare

There are two visions to consider in any discussion of American healthcare. One is a vision of a world in which there are enough resources to cover healthcare for everyone, but millions of people are turned away. They are turned away because healthcare has fallen into the hands of insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. In this vision, the corporations can’t help themselves, they exist to grow profits. This growth mentality results in a population of need. A large majority of the people cannot afford the healthcare they need.

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What is Environmental Justice?!

What is Environmental Justice?! Many of us are fairly familiar with the term “environmentalism” (think endangered species, deforestation, and pollution) as well as “social justice,”(think civil rights, labour unions and poverty) but have you ever thought about how these two movements fit together?

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