Resisting Extractivism and Creating a New Commons
The ruling class is striving to take everything from us – including our future.
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How Standing Rock Changed Us All
Ten years ago this spring, an Indigenous-led movement against an oil pipeline transformed the consciousness of the country.
Planting the Seeds for a Youth-Driven Antimilitarism Movement
We need to build an antiwar movement more enduring, localized, and concrete to bring genocidal attacks to a halt.
What We Do Together Holds Us Together
What can hold us together when capitalism, empire, and fascism are ruthlessly committed to tearing us apart?
Building a Future When Empire Is Obsolete
A future without successive catastrophes requires solutions that put a culture of care at the heart of relationships.
Rebellions Work — and They Represent a Long Tradition
Immigration enforcement is now facing renewed resistance across the country as Trump’s agents continue to harm, terrorize, and kill with impunity.
We All Have a Responsibility to End War
The testimonies of combat veterans speak to the moral catastrophe of war and the necessity of mass resistance to military conflict.
Hungry for Democracy
What if we approached solutions to the worsening food crisis as a struggle for democracy?
At What Risk Will We Resist?
With each day carrying the risk of further repression from the state, the pressure to defend our democratic rights is mounting.
A Repository of Hope Amid an Authoritarian Moment
The past is replete with examples of committed groups of people outside the majority that have changed the world.
A People’s Prosperity
Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Grappling With Growth
If the idea of growth itself is neutral, what can we build from the ashes of our individual lives and losses that strengthens the whole?
Terra Affirma: Life Finds A Way—If We Let It
Wolves helped make many beloved places in the West lush.
Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food
Brazil’s MST has organized the largest social movement in Latin America.
Free Your Mind(set)
To reject the growth mindset, we must divorce ourselves from careerism.
Keeping Kids With Kin
Kinship care saves children from state intervention that may alter their future outcomes.
The Growing Pains of a Changing Nation
Our country is multiracial but our democracy isn’t—yet.
Holding Fast to Kelp
This humble seaweed nourishes and teaches us to move with life’s currents.
Surviving Birth
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
Stop Planting Trees
Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.
Black Growing Traditions
Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
Meatless Abundance: The Joy of Plant-Based Eating
Alicia Kennedy’s new book invites readers to see the ecological and culinary possibilities of removing meat from the center of their plates.
The Risky Rise of AI
Who controls the reins of artificial intelligence will determine whether it serves us all or the wealthy few.
The Heavy Weight of Body Image
From a young age, boys are expected to bulk up at the expense of their emotional and mental health.
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