Rallying Hip Hop Culture For A More Inclusive Climate Fight
For the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., hip hop culture may be the key to bringing together the movements for social and environmental justice.
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Heart and Soul: Meet the UK Groups Changing Activism
Building movements that are truly liberating takes heart and soul.
Hope, Power, and Delusion
Jeremy Corbyn has won the race for leadership of the Labour party. But Greek and Spanish activists advise against placing too much faith in political parties.
Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling Following ‘Disappointing’ Results
After finding little oil and natural gas, Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday it would end its controversial Arctic drilling operations in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s coast “for the foreseeable future.”
Reversing the Tide: Cities and Countries are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, and Winning
Private companies have been working to make a profit from water since the 1600s, when the first water companies were established in England and Wales.
The Movement Lives On: Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices impact institutions of power all over the world.
Another World is Inevitable
As the neoliberal consensus shatters and the failure of its policies becomes impossible to ignore any longer, another world is not merely possible, it’s inevitable.
How Do We Integrate Activism and Governance?
For the first time, one of the European Parliament’s 28 Intergroups – groups made up of members from different political groupings, and that focus on certain issues – is devoted to discussing and defending the commons.
The Modern Green Movement and How to Change the World
How did the green movement start and where is it headed?
Transition in Australia: an open letter to Transitioners
The outcomes of our work are uncertain, but the way we approach Transition in each moment will contribute to the quality and nature of the outcomes.
Why the climate movement needs to move beyond the ‘big tent’
Unfortunately, a lot of the time the big tent feels a little too much like it’s just throwing a big sheet over already existing divisions and inequality across and within movements.
“You Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life”
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.