How to Become a Citizen Eater: A Trip Behind the Labels of Your Ethical Cup of Coffee
The movement for ethically sourced goods goes much deeper than simply buying certain brands.
Social justice
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
Owning our own land, growing our own food, educating our own youth, participating in our own healthcare and justice systems—this is the source of real power and dignity.
Where Do the Transition Environmental Movement and The Social Justice Movement Intersect?
Resource depletion and climate change effects various demographic groups in vastly different ways.
Journalist launches online archive to document diversity of rural India
Although Sainath is known for his forceful critiques of people in power and the inequality built into contemporary economics and politics, just as often his newspaper work focused on the dignity of ordinary people in the face of injustice.
Kids on Chicago’s West Side Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Restorative Circles
“How can we create an environment that doesn’t just respond effectively to harm once it happens but also actively creates safety on our communities’ own terms?”
Responding to the Prison Industrial Complex with Permaculture and Resilience
People are also the environment, we are our own ecological system integrated into the larger systems.
Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice
One way to make the apathy of privileged whites irrelevant is to build institutions that guarantee material economic justice.
Spokes on the anti-austerity wheel: moving beyond reform
If we want to envision an anti-austerity movement that can genuinely empower people, we will have to create one that moves beyond austerity altogether.
Shades of Green: A Movement in Search of a Narrative
Unity is found in diversity, or so the popular saying goes.
Solidarity Economy Organizing in the Wake of Mike Brown
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots organization that has taken the lead in organizing the community around the Mike Brown case, systemic racism and building a solidarity economy in St. Louis through a new project called Solidarity Economy St. Louis.
Why we need a farmer-led food movement
Long Island seaweed and shellfish farmer Bren Smith warned parents in a recent New York Times Sunday Review not to let their children go into farming.
Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson
It was not hard for me to make the connection between the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, and the catalyst for my work to stop the climate crisis.