A more accurate title for the book would have been “This Is Why I Think You Should Blow Up a Pipeline,” but it wouldn’t have sold nearly as many copies.
Tag: activism
People’s Earth Week: Just Add Wheatpaste
What better way to reclaim the radical roots of Earth Day than by simultaneously making the world a more beautiful place?
After police kill forest defender, movement to stop Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ calls for support
Atlanta activists are calling for an independent investigation and solidarity, after police killed an Indigenous land defender in a heavily-armed raid. Zane McNeill | Waging Nonviolence At least 19 Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City activists occupying Weelaunee People’s Park in Atlanta, Georgia were arrested during a police […]
‘Unruly Planet’ Examines Communities at the ‘Edge of Promise and Peril’
Author Madeline Ostrander avoids contrived conclusions in her examination of several U.S. communities organizing within our dangerously destabilized climate. That means no final victories—and no ultimate defeats—in this continuing project, reviewer Osha Gray Davidson writes.
Activists: 1. Don’t Despair, 2. Escalate!
Reproductive rights. Climate meltdown. Attacks on trans youth. Considering what’s at stake, it’s OK to skip some rungs on the usual ‘ladder of engagement,’ Akin Olla writes. Akin Olla Between the lack of action around police brutality, the threats to Roe v. Wade, increasing mass shootings, and the ever looming […]
We Must Turn Solidarity with Ukraine into a New Standard For All Refugees
Rather than argue over how differently some of us are supporting people based on where they come from, we should argue over the strategies needed to move from “Ukrainian refugees welcome” to “all refugees welcome” and “freedom of movement.”
Four Climate Influencers Who Are Inspiring Hope—and Action
It turns out that doomsday-ism isn’t a winning strategy. These lessons from four climate influencers point to a better way.
How to Support the Peace Movement in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
Now is the time to build bridges of solidarity between pro-democracy activists fighting for democratic rights and freedoms.