In the evolving global economy, migrants facing virtual indentured servitude abroad—and coming home to debt and social isolation—feels like the new normal.
Brought on by the sound of a screaming child, I reflect on my past, my community, and how we can become our true selves without fleeing our roots.
From people who are still literally marching to campaigns to sue the government for failing to take action on climate change, these projects make it clear that the People’s Climate March was just the beginning.
“We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level—to the level of human rights.”
In this interview, the founder of the Bioneers conference talks about what he’s learned in 25 years of bringing thinkers together.
Naomi Klein’s powerful new book explains why not only can the climate movement win—but it’s our best chance at overturning some of history’s greatest injustices.
Our experience strengthened our resolve to fight for housing as a human right.
New scientific research increasingly shows how “agroecology” offers environmentally sustainable methods that can meet the rapidly growing demand for food.
There was more to #FloodWallStreet than a guy in a polar bear suit getting arrested. Here’s a gallery of lesser-known moments from the day’s events.
The farmers working to build West Virginia’s local meat economy know that their fate relies on the success of the entire local meat ecosystem.
A sustained one-percentage-point decline in the unemployment rate is associated with a 9.4 percent rise in the wages of workers in the bottom quintile of the wage distribution.
These projects show how everyday people can address violence in our own communities by breaking through the silence to interrupt abuse.
For the new worker-owners of the Island Employee Cooperative, the transformation into a co-op will create profound changes in their lives.
The leading strategies in the climate justice movement already resemble the Cold War policies of containment, roll-back, and isolation. But can they wear down the political power of the fossil fuel industry?
“Divest from fossil fuels and invest in a clean energy future. Move your money out of the problem and into solutions.”
It's not hard to bring a little more equality into each others' lives.
The nurses’ unions focus on health gives them a unique perspective on climate change among organized labor.
“It makes me feel happy and inspired that we have people of all generations who are thinking that more drastic, extraordinary actions are necessary.”
If there is one key to making it in a family farm—or in any business that thwarts the trend toward relentless greed and destruction of the planet—it is the ability to believe.
The enormous event will provide support to world leaders who will be asking for climate action at this week’s United Nations summit.
Across the country, readers—including those on death row—gather to share the Davis family's story and the hope of putting an end to the killing.
Kicking the polluters out of the negotiations may sound like wishful thinking. But there is a precedent: the global effort to regulate the tobacco industry.
A sit-in planned for the day after the People’s Climate March will call out the role of Wall Street in climate change.
Fictional Dystopias Teach Kids to Stand Up to Inequality—Don’t Dismiss Them As Capitalist Propaganda
Young Adult future fantasies like The Hunger Games and Divergent have been condemned as promoting free-market ideology. But these stories of revolution engage young people in deep conversations about identity and injustice.
The movement to persuade schools to divest from fossil fuels has taken off around the country. Meet a few people who helped get Stanford’s money out of coal.
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