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What Else You Can Do
What Else You Can Do You’ve been radically misled to believe that the only thing, or the most important thing, or one of the super important things you can do is vote. Voting in a functioning democracy would be a fairly important thing to do, but wouldn’t somehow eliminate the thousands of important things that […]
UK scientists risk prison to urge action
UK scientists risk prison to urge action Orangutans are among the most endangered ape species. Image by Erik-Jan Leusink on Unsplash A group of British scientists and their supporters is willing to risk a prison term to press governments to tackle climate change and environmental crisis. LONDON, 31 October, 2018 − A growing number of […]
Fighting Back Against Globalism Requires An Honest Movement To Decentralize
Fighting Back Against Globalism Requires An Honest Movement To Decentralize Over a decade ago, critics of the liberty movement would often argue that it was not enough to simply point out all the problems plaguing our economy — we needed to also offer solutions. Of course, a common Alinsky tactic is to demand your opponents […]
Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base: An Interview with Ana Felicien
Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base: An Interview with Ana Felicien A Venezuelan food sovereignty activist explains the need to combat agrobusiness’ complex web of domination in this interview with Venezuelanalysis. Campesino holds bean seeds. (Archive) In the course of Venezuela’s economic crisis, we have seen changes in people’s consumption patterns. People are eating more […]
Rebel
Rebel Bert: You know, begging you pardon, but the one who my heart goes out for is your father. There he is in that cold, heartless bank day after day, hemmed in by mounds of cold, heartless money. I don’t like to see any living thing caged up. Jane: Father? In a cage? Bert: They makes cages in […]
The 1.5 Generation
Grist / Amelia Bates The 1.5 Generation My generation is radically remaking climate activism. Will it be enough? My generation, the millennials, will never know a time when climate change wasn’t a grave threat. Back in 1988, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the 350 parts per million level when I was still watching Sesame […]
Community Development and the Commons
Community Development and the Commons The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. Last August, 200 people from across Oakland, California came together to envision and design a development plan for a small parcel of public land. For months leading up to […]
Only Radical Environmental Activism Can Bring About Whole-System Change
Only Radical Environmental Activism Can Bring About Whole-System Change To come to terms with the many dimensions of our ecological crisis we need to co-create conscious, connected communities, and act together Adapted from A New Republic of the Heart; An Ethos for Revolutionaries A healthy future for humanity requires a healthy living planet. And our […]
“Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
Still: Steve Liptay “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM” OR NECESSARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY? PIPELINE SHUTDOWN TRIALS PIT ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE OIL INDUSTRY AN ACTIVIST IN Montana was sentenced on Tuesday in a case that has become both a touchstone for industry-friendly legislators pushing to increase penalties for pipeline protest and a measure of the U.S. legal system’s […]
Justice Department Helped Washington State Prosecutor Target Facebook Records of Anti-Pipeline Activists
Photo: Ty Campbell via The Red Line Salish Sea JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELPED WASHINGTON STATE PROSECUTOR TARGET FACEBOOK RECORDS OF ANTI-PIPELINE ACTIVISTS NINE MONTHS AFTER pipeline opponents in Washington state staged a protest that blocked freeway traffic, Facebook ended a protracted legal standoff with a county prosecutor, turning over detailed records on the indigenous-led group behind […]
Giving War Too Many Chances
Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. I joined them and a small group of local […]
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Environmentalists
Photo: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE COMPANY PAID MERCENARIES TO BUILD CONSPIRACY LAWSUIT AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALISTS Oil and Water The private security firm TigerSwan worked to build a RICO suit accusing Greenpeace, Earth First, and BankTrack of inciting protests to increase donations. VIEW MORE FROM THIS TIMELINE STORY THE PRIVATE SECURITY firm TigerSwan, hired […]
Review: No Is Not Enough
Review: No Is Not Enough Samir Dathi reviews No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics, by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein’s new books always provoke plenty of excitement on the left. For starters, they always seem to augur new waves of popular struggle. The Canadian journalist’s debut No Logo, an exposé of corporate super-branding, went […]
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges On October 23, 84 Congressional representatives made a splash when they published a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking if those engaged in activism disrupting or damaging pipeline operations should face criminal prosecution as an act of terrorism under the USA PATRIOT ACT. Spearheaded […]
There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy
There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy Jason Hickel: You can almost feel the planet writhing. This summer brought some of the biggest, most destructive storms in recorded history: Harvey laid waste to huge swathes of Texas; Irma left Barbuda virtually uninhabitable; Maria ravaged Dominica and plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. The […]
