Video: Happiness Family Farm
Rosata, her husband, Prosper, and son, Japhety, work year-round on their small farm to harvest fresh fruits and vegetables for the Portland community.
George Monbiot: Level Down
The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.
Erin Eberle, Anna Lappe: Eating in the Age of Climate Crisis
A recent analysis on land use estimated that livestock production uses 83 percent of the world’s farmland, yet provides only 18 percent of the world’s total calories.
Chuck Collins: Helping the Rich Let Go
A new generation of wealth advisers helps wealthy people give away their money instead of hoarding it.
Video: No Crying at the Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.
Yifat Susskind: Three Lessons to Chart a Path Forward in Solidarity With Afghan Women
This time we can stand with Afghan women on their own terms, by asking them what they want and working hand-in-hand with them to support their leadership and meet their communities’ needs.
Robert Gibb: Frances Perkins at the Homestead Post Office
Minimum wage, overtime, social security . . .
A storm of progress to the angel of history,
The debris of paradise scattered about
The aggrieved, beseeching crowds.
Barbara E. Young: Cousin Jill
I like a woman who can fall
Jack said to Jill.
Marco North: the falling boy (too bitter a fruit)
He was one of many trying to escape, grabbing onto the plane thinking they would let him in.
Abby Zimet: Truth Is Truth: Fuck These Guys
The bad news is that the crazed orange guy is still out there, raving and lying.
Video: The Seeker
A lyrical portrait of an excommunicated Amish woodworker struggling with spirituality, poverty, and life as an outcast from his strict, insular community.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Beyond Cancel Culture | How to Hold Each Other Accountable—With Love
‘We can’t go around punishing people in the present for the trauma that was inflicted on us in the past.’
Edison Jennings: The Cats of Rome
The cats of Rome sleep, feed, and breed
among the tumbled travertine, and slip,
tails high, across the flag draped avenues.
Thomas W. Fraser: Overcoming Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘three evils of society’
We can still bend the arc of history through a ceaseless pursuit of beloved community.
