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VIDEO: What If Trump Wins Again? (An Action Plan)

Choose Democracy recently launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help us prepare emotionally and strategically for whatever might happen this November and after. The tools invite participants to explore their reactions and options, to plot their own route through uncharted territory.

By Convergence

/ 20 Aug 2024

VIDEO: What If Trump Wins Again? (An Action Plan)

PODCAST: Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate Action with Kara Jordan

What do building relationships of trust and care between neighbors have to do with climate justice? Everything, according to local organizer Kara Jordan, an herbalist, regenerative agriculture specialist, and mother whose work highlights the interdependence of all beings.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 19 Aug 2024

PODCAST: Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate Action with Kara Jordan

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This month opened with a banger of a presentation at Galeria E.V.A. when the Beehive Collective, the renowned arts and storytelling project now touring the world arrived in San Antonio. They unfurled massive hand-illustrated banners telling big stories. Like how about the essential story of coal in

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Aug 2024

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

Though officially begun in 1992, the routes run by the Peace and Dignity Journeys trace an unbroken ancestral history of migration and ceremony across Abya Yala that continues more than 500 year later. A report back from the prayer run as it moved its way south through San Pedro Park in San Antonio.

By Danielle López

/ 11 Aug 2024

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Environmental justice advocates and community members are celebrating this week after a D.C. Circuit Court finds federal review of two LNG projects failed their environmental analyses.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Aug 2024

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

Indigenous runners threading the Americas as part of the Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 prayer run speak of their personal prayers for their cultures and communities—but also the gift that their efforts are offering to the world.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Aug 2024

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking

Sure, political violence is wrong; but also: it doesn’t work. Even the conspiratorial obsessing over Trump’s behavior under fire is time lost countering actual campaign threats and the vision of Project 2025.

By Greg Harman

/ 1 Aug 2024

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking

How Land is a ‘Fellow Victim and Hostage’ to Racial Capitalism

‘Rooted’ author Brea Baker talks with The Emancipator about America’s legacy of land theft from Black and Indigenous people

By The Emancipator

/ 1 Aug 2024

How Land is a ‘Fellow Victim and Hostage’ to Racial Capitalism

As Temps Soar, Federal Utility Assistance Funds for Appear to Shortchange Hottest States

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) covers less than 8 percent of low-income residents’ heating and cooling costs in Texas. That’s compared to nearly 23 percent in northern states.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jul 2024

As Temps Soar, Federal Utility Assistance Funds for Appear to Shortchange Hottest States

Community Vision for Corpus Christi Park Challenges Political Failures and Heat Island

Some of the oldest neighborhoods in Corpus Christi are also the city’s hottest, new Deceleration research reveals—but a rising interest in community care could help shift that.

By Gaige Davila

/ 19 Jul 2024

Community Vision for Corpus Christi Park Challenges Political Failures and Heat Island

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

A review of lessons learned about heat since the ‘90s; Plus! A guide to heat-busting efforts happening now in San Antonio, Texas

By Marisol Cortez

/ 18 Jul 2024

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

This Secret Club of Super-Rich Christians Are Ready to Rule Over You Now

Owners of popular retailers like Hobby Lobby, Uline, and Jockey apparel are funding the rise of Christian nationalism.

By ProPublica

/ 16 Jul 2024

This Secret Club of Super-Rich Christians Are Ready to Rule Over You Now