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From the Current Issue
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it’s just the first step.
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger
Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus food items to anyone who wants them—no questions asked.
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Programs provide easier access to fresh, healthful foods to low-income neighbors.
10 ways to get your mind off this White House.
Black Neighbors Band Together to Bring in Healthy Food, Co-op-Style
And the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network is creating other ways for Black people to circulate healthy food—and wealth.
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s trying to kill us.
Where fascism aims to instill fear, joy is the perfect resistance.
From the Current Issue
An online platform might be just the thing to spread around our grassroots genius.
Comic: We Sent Our Illustrator to Activist Summer Camp. Here’s What Happened
Meet Jen, who went to sleep-away camp a newbie activist and came back ready to fight for social change.
Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.
A chef and journalist started “The Racist Sandwich Podcast” to address inequity in the restaurant industry. Today, it’s winning award nominations and fans worldwide.