People Creating Change

This is a year filled with as much possibility as peril for our nation.

However, what needs to be remembered is that the presidential election in November will not change anything by itself.

We had a chance recently to talk to author and democracy activist Frances Moore Lappé, who is busy these days spreading the word that, as she puts it, "hope is a verb."

That means that if you want to renew civic and democratic values, rein in corporate excess and governmental abuse and create a world that's peaceful, healthy and humane, get ready to do some work.