Life around Lugu Lake—high up in the Himalayas, straddling China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces—has been changing rapidly. Until relatively recently, the Mosuo, a Chinese ethnic minority of about 40,000 people,
We can begin by embracing mythologies aimed at exalting environmental sustainability and social equality.
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There’s a better way with platform cooperatives.
No matter who wins the election, the results were not the repudiation of Trump's racism, authoritarianism, and corruption that America needed.
Watching hopes for a strong repudiation of Trumpism fade on election night forced me to take a long, hard look at this adopted country of mine.
Seasoned community journalists have some words of wisdom before you decide to livestream your next protest.
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
Never underestimate the power of direct action.
Three groups using mutual aid as a tool for natural disaster response.
Number of Senate votes needed to remove an impeached justice from the Supreme Court: 671 Number of times an impeached Supreme Court justice has been successfully removed: 02 Number of
Moving away from grass lawns demands the extensive transformation of our relationship not only with our cities but also with nature.
Since 2016, organizers have identified campaigns sowing falsehoods about the pandemic and the presidential election and have worked to counteract them.
To make these after times different from the ones Baldwin lived through, White people need to reimagine their Whiteness and their wokeness and how they perform both.
New research reveals how to make social change.
It was a bitter reality to witness residents in this country having to fend for themselves against the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions have lost their jobs and homes. Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives.
The pandemic has brought home some undeniable truths about the way our country is run, and specifically, how it stacks up against the rest of the world.
Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as “be like Scandinavia.”
A visual exploration of the lasting harm of Canada’s residential schools on the Indigenous population.
Can Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation efforts help the U.S. with its own reckoning?
The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making.
Even nations with long histories of inequality and violence carry lessons for how to move toward what might be called a more perfect union.
Both Western and traditional medicine agree, cranberries are more than just tart and tasty.
We need to build on past achievements, expand our ideas of the possible, and move toward a shared vision of the future—with disabled people at the forefront of the push toward justice.
Mark P. Fancher is a human rights attorney, writer, and activist. Over the course of his 36-year career he has fought: police misconduct, over-incarceration, employment discrimination, racially discriminatory school discipline,
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