Social change

Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov has been visiting Independence Square nearly every day since protests began. And despite recent violence, he remains optimistic about the future.

Iona Rozeal Brown’s art fuses two distinctly different cultures into paintings that jar the audience with their atypical styles. Brown, an African American, grew up with an appreciation for Japanese culture. That appreciation and her own roots come together in her art.

In Memphis, an online discussion between the two largest protest movements going right now, the Tea Party activists and the Occupy Wall Street protesters, led to an in-person discussion where the two sides tried to better understand each other and find common ground.

Two University of California Davis protesters are on administrative leave, Chancellor Linda Katehi is under fire and many are outraged after an incident where a row of peaceful protesters, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, were doused with pepper spray on the university’s campus.

Author Paul Hawken talks about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.