Inspiring activists.

• Author: Conniff, Ruth
• Position: Editor's Note

In this issue of the magazine, we are delighted to have Peter Dreier's interview with the great Bill Moyers.

It was a relief to Moyers's many fans when he reconsidered his retirement as host of his weekly television show, Moyers & Company.

In the interview, you'll see why he is hopeful that citizens can overthrow "the pirates and predators of Wall Street [who have] seized the ship of state."

Also in this issue, Abby Scher brings us the voices of young women around the country who are not "Ready for Hillary." These feminist activists, who hoped to draft Elizabeth Warren, continue to hold out for something better than another corporate Democrat.

In our On The Line section, we cover some exciting campaigns that are successfully moving our country in a more progressive direction.

For instance, Pentagon workers' demands for a higher minimum wage helped propel President Obama's executive order to up federal contract workers' pay to $10.10 an hour.

And the tenacious activists who crammed Congressional hearing rooms, passed local ordinances, and got out in the streets to try to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership already have derailed fast track and thrown sand in the gears of the pro-corporate, anti-democratic trade machine in Washington. (More on this in Comment.)

We lost an old friend when Pete Seeger passed away in January at the age of ninety-four.

Senior editor Matt Rothschild wrote a lovely tribute to Seeger, which you can read on our website at www.progressive.org.

The songs Pete sang--"We Shall Overcome," "Which Side Are You On," "This Land Is Your Land"--sustained strikers, protesters, and marchers for civil rights, peace, and social justice for generations, including those who...