The unprecedented level of economic inequality in America is undeniable. In an extended essay, Bill shares examples of the striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country, including a video report on California's Silicon Valley. There, Facebook, Google, and Apple are minting millionaires, while the area's homeless -- who've grown 20 percent in the last two years -- are living in tent cities at their virtual doorsteps.

Social equality illustration by Brandon Cripps.

Published on Apr 11, 2013

Acclaimed historian Gary May is interviewed by Bill Moyers. He puts the recent Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act into historical perspective, noting it's just one moment in a long, ongoing struggle to ensure voting rights for every American. A specialist in American political, diplomatic and social history, May's latest book is Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.

You may order book from Amazon by clikcing on image or visit your local bookstore. Thank you. Published on Jul 12, 2013

Bill Moyers has followed the stories of two Milwaukee families since 1991. Like thousands of others, they were caught in the powerful undertow of a merciless economy and a changing city, constantly faced with devastating challenges and difficult choices. Bill revisits his reports on these families, and also explores the human price of inequality with journalists Barbara Miner and Barbara Garson.

Published on Jul 4, 2013

Interview with Carmen Perez, Senior Research Analyst, Global Valuation at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) at the 2013 VolunteerMatch Client Summit in New York City, May 2013. Carmen talks about the role of volunteering in CECP's partnerships with businesses around the world on the most important societal issues. She discusses the growth of volunteering as a priority for large corporations globally, and how it's becoming a strategic focus on both social and business levels.

Aaron Hurst, Taproot Foundation - Imperative and CECP: The CEO Force for Good are teaming up with a small group of leading employers on a new initiative to redefine corporate service and volunteering through the science of purpose.

Aaron Hurst, Imperative's CEO, founded the Taproot Foundation and led the skills-based volunteering and pro-bono revolution. He then catalyzed Billion + Change and discovered the Service Enterprise. CECP, since its founding by Paul Newman, John Whitehead and others, brings together CEOs of the world’s largest corporations -- and their trusted delegates -- to advance new perspectives and pioneer more effective collaborations and innovations as they work to create a better world through business.

In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness. There is an excellent presentation on Prezi that should also be viewed and shared here.

Bryan is founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.

Published on Mar 5, 2012

Adrian Dix (born 26 April 1964⁾ is a Canadian politician, serving as the MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia and as leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.  He's rising up to stop violence against women and references the missing and murdered women report issues in December 2012 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Three more resources include: Missing Women Blog, Wikipedia entry, and missing indigenous women Website, missing justice.

Isabel Sebastian, Business Development Manager at Bhutan Luminous, talks about happiness and well-being as a measure of sustainability progress at BSR Conference 2012: Fast Forward.

She addresses the importance of happiness to development and sustainability; most business models will require significant changes to have a positive effect; and how adapting business models to account for happiness can provide business with unexplored opportunities to help people contribute to society, learn the “skill” of happiness, and transform their lives.

Greater sustainability impacts depend on personal and collective human happiness and well-being.

Barbara Marx Hubbard talks about awakening to the feminine self after the age of 50.  We are shifting from procreation to co-creation.

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called “the voice for conscious evolution of our time” by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s new book “The Mother of Invention.” A prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, she is co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution,

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