After the election, I initially thought the best way to show my solidarity and stay safe was to huddle with my own. But refuge can be found in many places.
And five other creative ways Americans are stepping up to build strong local economies.
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
By permanently protecting an area rich in indigenous cultural history, Obama has shown that some things are worth more than money.
Alternative art spaces are critical to establishing connections for queer people, but especially for those living in rural areas, where community is smaller and less supported than in cities.
To deal with a Trump administration, the tribal nation might now want to use that 200-year-old treaty right.
In Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, city planners are responding to demands for better neighborhood mobility and bicycling infrastructure.
After 10 years without an independent grocery store, the residents of Iola, Kansas, found a way to bring one back.
Whom to call, what to donate, and where to show up.
The year’s most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books on empathy, kindness, and moving the conversation forward.
I fear losing the stillness I gained. But I take comfort in knowing that the abbey is there, that the monks are singing the hours, and that there is silence in between.
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In the years to come, community bills of rights are one strategy to shelter vulnerable populations.
The community we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.
The Great Growth Con promises that economic growth—measured by gross domestic product—will benefit everyone, rich and poor alike.
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The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
Three creative ways to strengthen local food economies.
Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration.
Nearly one in six properties across the city faced tax foreclosure in 2015. Land trusts are one way to keep buildings affordable.
The Thai Community Development Center has played a part in some of the most notorious human-trafficking cases in the United States. But unlike other groups, it also helps workers post-liberation.
Public and consumer pressure on banks to quit financing the Dakota Access pipeline companies is producing results.
Time is running out for Obama to say no to Big Oil and permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and the people who depend on it.
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
We can’t count on Republicans or Democrats to save us. Instead, we are the ones to build the world we want, starting in our communities.
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