After major cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service, the role of local governments in protecting people from dangerous weather is growing even more important.
Lesley Ramsey and Joyous Windrider Jimenez have made the health and wellbeing of people the root of their community activism. That and smashing stuff up.
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including refusal, resistance, and ridicule.
If we don’t successfully challenge the government’s unconstitutional seizure of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, this behavior will become the model for repressing labor organizers, racial justice advocates, reproductive justice efforts, climate activists, and more, the authors write.
In spite of Trump threatening renewables and Tesla’s Elon Musk driving for global fascism, electric transportation remains part of the solution for working-class communities under assault, as this Deceleration conversation with EV enthusiast Jim Royston shows.
Nonprofits that serve LGBTQ+ Texans are struggling with the limits of the old playbooks, while fighting renewed attacks on transgender and queer rights.
‘People were frozen, I knew that. It wasn’t the stunned shock of 2016; this time around, it was exhaustion. But it also felt like people were thinking. What we’d done before hadn’t worked. What would? No one knew. Yet.’
Fermentation is a living food culture that taps into ancient skills and traditional knowledge. But this knowledge is under attack and slowly dying out.
