As the world prepares to join the youth-led Global Climate Strike during the week of September 20 – September 27, smaller preparatory Fridays for Future strikes are already generating energy around
In the emerging field of resistance studies, Stellan Vinthagen draws on the knowledge and experiences of “professors of the street.”
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Waging Nonviolence
Stellan Vinthagen is no ordinary professor.
Extinction Rebellion mass die-in, Melbourne, Australia, April 27, 2019. Image: Julian Meehan
“When it’s a fight for your life, you’re willing to throw down.”
Jeremy Deaton
Nexus Media
Outrage Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Bill That Would Hit Pipeline Protestors With Up to 10 Years in Prison
Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
Sparking outcry from indigenous tribes and environmental groups, the Texas
Proposed legislation being carried by Granbury-based Republican Brian Birdwell would increase the risk of protesting in ways that, intentionally or otherwise, impede traffic outside so-called “critical infrastructure.”
About 10 years ago, when I was fresh and young and newly 30, I was working for the first time as a full-time organizer on a campaign against the expansion of a South Texas nuclear power plant. When COP 15 hit in December 2009, I got it in my head somehow that the best way to connect the dots between
Indigenous communities carry work of slain environmental activist Berta Cacéres’ forward by defending nature and health care in Honduras.
Jeff Abbott
On March 2, hundreds gathered in Honduras to commemorate
Two job opportunities for climate justice organizers (or would-be organizers) in San Antonio, Texas.
Public Citizen is looking for a full-time climate justice organizer (PDF below):
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Moms Clean
The pace of dramatic and extremely damaging policy actions rolling out from the Trump Administration can be overwhelming and lead one to despair and withdrawal. We know; we feel it
Editor’s Note: I interviewed and photographed Pedro Rabago Gutierrez several times over the last few months in relation to his opposition to Energy Transfer Partners’ Trans-Pecos Pipeline. I knew
Kazu Haga/Waging Nonviolence
I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was
Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia provides grants to nonprofit organizations engaged in environmental work.
The company’s environmental grant program supports small, grassroots activist organizations that have provocative direct-action
