Abby Zimet: Man Made Borders On This Earth
Last Wednesday, 31-year-old Alonso Guillén, a Lufkin, Texas Dreamer, construction worker and weekend disc jockey known as DJ Ocho, left work with two friends and a small borrowed boat, driving … Continue reading
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: Climate Breakdown Is Happening Before Our Eyes
Climate breakdown, as George Monbiot calls it, is happening before our eyes at the same time the science on climate change grows stronger and has wider acceptance. Hurricane Harvey, which struck … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Diseases of Despair
The opioid crisis, the frequent mass shootings, the rising rates of suicide, especially among middle-aged white males, the morbid obesity, the obsession with gambling, the investment of our emotional and … Continue reading
Andrew Revkin: Development and Disasters — A Deadly Combination Well Beyond Houston
Scientists warn of more and expanding “bull’s-eyes” as Americans build in parts of the country at ever greater risk because of climate change and severe weather. The consequences of Houston’s … Continue reading
Paul Watson: The Whale Wars Continue
Sea Shepherd has accomplished something absolutely remarkable over the last 12 years. In 2005 we set out to tackle the world’s largest and most destructive whaling fleet. We were told … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: Night’s Flock
Solstice: the summer’s premium darkness. And with it, for the first time in years, The raspy whinnying of screech owls fills my trees. Their fledglings’ post-nest points of … Continue reading
Carolyn Gregory: Watch Out for Hornets
Do not step into a nest of hornets and not expect to be stung by something with pointed ears and shrieking “it’s my nest, my nest”! Much better to … Continue reading
Robert Okaji: Scarecrow Calls Out the Man
These things I cannot name: that finger of night between fear and peace, in which darkness both cloaks and hugs the wide-eyed. A snake, in the open. And that space … Continue reading
Aviva Chomsky: How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors? As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky and Martin Luther King on building a resistance movement
. . As widespread oppression and violence rise up, people of good conscience wonder what we can do to help move the country in the right direction. It is natural … Continue reading
Carolyn Gregory: Gathering the Beasts
I gather all my beasties close, the laughing camel and gold and silver alligator, a little cat contemplating Buddha. Happy to have a blue sting ray sweep through the … Continue reading
Nathan Halverson: Toxic manure lagoons stir battle over Chinese-owned pigs in the US
What do China, its rapidly growing middle class and toxic manure lagoons in North Carolina have in common? Absolutely nothing. And even if they did, don’t mention it. So say … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Accidental Re-Wilding
I stepped out into the sunlight, scarcely able to believe what I had seen or, rather, what I had not. I stared at the hills around me, contrasting them with … Continue reading
Isaiah J. Poole: On the Road From Protest to Power — A Rising Tide
The millions who gathered in Washington and around the country for the historic Women’s March, one day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, made an indisputable statement: Trump may have won the … Continue reading
