Whether Trump or Clinton Wins the US Election, What Follows Is Up To Us
By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian
‘A politician is not a given. Each one is in part what we make them, by pushing, blocking, pressuring, encouraging, fighting, reframing, emphasizing, organizing.’
Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
As it happens, the planet’s changing climate now demands that we summon up the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe with it some portion of the Age of Capitalism as well).
Anywhere But Here: Casino Capitalism in Las Vegas
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
After the crash in 2008, southern Nevada became the foreclosure and unemployment capital of the nation.
The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
I say: rock that boat. It’s a lifeboat; maybe the people in it will wake up and start rowing.
By the way, your home is on fire
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
The moral of this story: people in power and bureaucrats seem exceptionally obtuse when it comes to recognizing that the world has changed and the old rules no longer apply.
The Arc of Justice and the Long Run Hope, History, and Unpredictability
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Whenever I look around me, I wonder what old things are about to bear fruit, what seemingly solid institutions might soon rupture, and what seeds we might now be planting whose harvest will come at some unpredictable moment in the future.
Bigger than that: (The difficulty of) looking at climate change
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.
Occupy at Two
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
In the new space that appears, however briefly, the old rules no longer apply.