People’s Power Defends Detroit Homeowners
The battle to keep residents in Gratiot-McDougall homes is the most recent of dozens of housing-related struggles that Detroit Eviction Defense (DED) has taken on over the last three years.
social movements
A New Face at the Helm of The Oldest U.S. Green Group
The Sierra Club made history last month when it elected the first African-American board president in the organization’s 123-year history.
Towards a New Municipal Agenda in Spain?
A new film explains why Spain’s right-wing press reflections on the elections are wrong: they fail to understand where the new leaders really come from.
How the ‘Paddle in Seattle’ Plans to Beat Shell
Seattle has become a hub of anti-extraction activism.
We Tried So Hard to Be Good
We tried so hard to be good, but it didn’t work. Nothing was enough for you. You had to take it all. We’re here to take it back.
“Make, be, dance, pedal, shape the future”.
I suppose that’s what my creative practice is: I do something with the objective of trying to raise awareness and people trying to get a message across, it’s designed around that.
The Cherán Indigenous Community’s Remarkable Road to Self-rule in Mexico
The people themselves decide what can and cannot be done in the community. Political parties don’t do that, they were the ones who determined what to do or not to do.
WANTED. Planet in Crisis Seeks Leaders Up to the Job
Why is it that slow food, slow money and slow travel are so appealing, but that there’s nothing quite as dull as a slow catastrophe?
The Transformative Power of Climate Truth
Climate truth is not easy news to receive or deliver, and it takes fortitude to spread it. However, it is a message that people are increasingly ready to hear.
Growing Calls for Sharing and Justice
The STWR report ‘Sharing as our common cause’ explains how a call for sharing is consistently at the heart of civil society demands for a better world, even though this mutual concern is generally understood and couched in tacit terms.
It’s Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems
It is time to begin a real conversation — locally, nationally and at all levels — about what a genuine alternative beyond corporate capitalism and state socialism would look like, and how we would build it.
The Rise of the Insurrectionary Imagination
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination….is a collective which…"aims at opening spaces…and bringing artists and activists together to…co-create more creative forms of …civil disobedience".