Coast Salish water warriors in canoes delayed a U.S. military ship believed to be carrying weapons from the Port of Tacoma to Israel.
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A newly formed organization called Climate Defiance is challenging the Biden administration to live up to its climate change promises.
The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.
Punishing ourselves through the deprivation of rest and pleasure won’t get us free.
Native activists are using comedy to fight cultural invisibility and structural oppression.
Three ways to practice community care for movement organizers, unionizers, and other folks on the ground keeping good trouble going.
The late poet and activist’s legacy lives on decades after her untimely death—in the purposeful lives of her former students.
Whether you’re ready, weary, or wise, you can take your movement engagement to the next level.
Favianna Rodriguez says the cultural successes at COP27 overshadow the political failures.
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, protests remind the Left how political change happens.
A new documentary interviews “Greenham Common Women”—tough, dedicated protesters in the struggle against nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better.
Witnesses, whether by accident or vocation, help to shape how societies understand social upheaval and respond to social change.
Prison reformists—many of whom are serving long sentences—have united to change the cruel and arbitrary carceral system.
“We can’t afford to let our education systems get in sustainability’s way.”
From anti-communist witch-hunts to independence movements to wages for housework and rights for sex workers, 91-year-old Selma James has been in the struggle for a lifetime.
In North Carolina, progressive activists reach out to rural voters as an overlooked segment of the electorate.
A conversation with the Ugandan activist about her new book and how it helped her see climate change differently.
People are taking to the streets to resist repression, from the U.S. to Japan.
She says the pandemic has shown how quickly we can develop a vaccine once we really put our resources behind it; it's time to do the same for climate solutions.
The author and activist talks to YES! about how to take care of ourselves and our communities, and what that means for movement sustainability.
How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space.
A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.
As you spend time at the end of this year reflecting and setting goals for 2021, here’s one to consider.
A three-part reported series identifying the infrastructure, challenges, and successes of Portland's sustained protests in defense of Black lives.
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