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Frances Madeson

Frances Madeson is a freelance movement journalist who hopes to still be writing about our brilliant daring struggles on the other side of these inhumanely cruel politics.

Frances's Latest Articles

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat

By Frances Madeson ● Reviews ● November 7, 2025

Delaney Nolan’s distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author Delaney Nolan explores.

REVIEW: ‘We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System’ Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed

By Frances Madeson ● Reviews ● September 24, 2025

Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.

Breaking the Grip of Polluting Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley: Researchers Uncover Hard Facts

By Frances Madeson ● Solutions ● February 5, 2025

In spite of federal hostility toward frontline communities under President Trump, new grassroots research into toxic emissions could yet spark locally led reform in Louisiana.

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

By Frances Madeson ● Gulf Coast ● October 22, 2024

Inspired by the climate-driven insurance crisis, congressional candidate Devin Davis signed onto the full PLEDGE campaign, which uses electoral politics to build movement power to reject fossil fuels and resist becoming their ‘extraction colonies.’