There is a groundswell out there – people all over the world are emerging from the shadows to call for civility, compassion, and courage in the face of violence and exclusion. And thousands are doing it in the name of faith and morality.

In the U.S., many of us are demanding dignity for immigrants, calling for an end to religious bigotry, fighting for climate justice – but we’re acting on our own.

A rising generation is hungry for a movement that’s not about a single issue or a political party, but a shared moral vision for a better world.

Groundswell echoes and amplifies that call for justice welling up among the secular, the seeking, and people of faith. We provide avenues for an emerging movement to take strategic social action around justice issues of the hour -- including combating anti-Muslim rhetoric, ending sex trafficking, fighting the oppression of LGBT peoples, and protecting the dignity of immigrants.

But we’re not doing it the old way.

The way we make change matters as much as the change we make.  Our campaigns adhere to these core principles:

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1.  We transcend the polarization that divides our country – right versus left, the religious versus the secular, us versus them. Instead, we galvanize people of all walks of life around shared moral imperatives to build a community where every person flourishes.

2.  We recognize that the greatest social challenges of our time are interconnected.  We cannot realize racial equality in the U.S. without addressing religious bigotry, securing dignity for immigrants, and ending violence against women and girls, for example.  We create tools and resources to build solidarity so that we stand up for one another’s causes as our own.

3.  We are not organizers of the movement. The movement is too big for that. To achieve meaningful change in a networked society, we generate open-source social action campaigns that you make your own. The movement is yours. Starting now.