Tena Thau: Unsanitize the genocide
In 1967, Martin Luther King was moved to break his silence over the Vietnam War (at a time when the war was still very popular among the American public), after seeing images in Ramparts magazine of Vietnamese children with napalm burns.
Abriel Louise Young: Calling on Friends Across the Veil to Help Us Change History
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Have you succeeded in changing yourself to wine? If so, please report back.
Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”
Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano
We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.
Michael Simms: Banned!
Vox Populi is not alone in experiencing censorship from Facebook which has often been accused of blocking messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine.
Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught
In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”
Helen Hunt Jackson: Poppies on the Wheat
Along Ancona’s hills the shimmering heat,
A tropic tide of air with ebb and flow
Bathes all the fields of wheat until they glow
Like flashing seas of green
Dane Cervine: This Burning
I drove silently in the night
into the heaving hills of Los Angeles afire, so close now,
not knowing if there would be a way through
Jeff Cohen: Fired by MSNBC for Giving Voice to Iraq War Opposition, Phil Donahue (1935-2024) Was Courage Personified
The TV show host, who died Sunday at the age of 88, made his mark on our society. He fought for the underdog with style and grace and a sense of humor.
Michael Simms: How to Canvass Door-to-Door
Speaking with voters face-to-face is one of the best ways to educate, persuade, and mobilize them to vote for a candidate or cause, making door-to-door canvassing an essential part of any political campaign.
David Hartsough: Finding joy in resistance and prison
As she begins a 229-day prison sentence in Germany, Catholic Worker Susan Crane, age 80, talks about why she has devoted her life to resisting nuclear weapons.
Michael Simms: Politics as a Spiritual Practice
Those of us who wish to follow a spiritual path cannot ignore the malevolent policies of our government.
Frida Berrigan: The Art of the Submarine
Each of those future billion-dollar behemoths could menace the world with the equivalent of 5,824 Hiroshimas.
KAMAU FRANKLIN: PROTEST AND SERVE
Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.
