This victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe represents hope for Indigenous and environmental movements around the world.
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YES! Magazine, City Lights, and The Land Institute present “How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly”, an exploration the fundamental changes that our society will have to go through in order to adapt to strict ecological boundaries.
“What if we placed freedom from racist violence at the crux of what it means to be free and equal in the United States?”
“This clearly isn’t about individual officers,” Oliver said. “It’s about a structure built on systemic racism that this country created intentionally, and now needs to be dismantled intentionally.”
All living and dead things are connected, my healing and being able to live well honors not just my ancestors, but also the future generations.
In West Virginia’s Kanawha County, school bus drivers are leaving meals on porches and meeting families at bus stops.
“In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible.”
The novelist’s new essay examines what the coronavirus means for the world.
The Kashia’s success might be the first time that a tribe in the U.S. has held a private deed—as well as management rights—to their ancestral lands.
We know how the oldest people in the world live. Why not create communities that offer that to everyone?
Taxpayer money provides the research for Big Pharma’s drugs, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford them?
Post-fascist Europe tells us exactly how to defend our democracy. From Timothy Snyder's bestselling book: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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