Taking on the rich is possible. Our Illinois coalition won a tax on tech giants
Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.
Activism
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York’s statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
Introducing PLAN, the tool that finds every public lands fight open for comment right now
The Public Lands Action Network is a free tool that finds every public lands decision open for comment and helps you write the one comment the law makes them answer.
The ripple effects of organizing against data centers
One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.
‘Resistance is only half the equation’: Why movements must build, not just resist
This moment demands more than opposition. What is needed is not just resistance against corrupt centralized systems, but to create new, local systems that restructure power so it is dispersed throughout society. Because the problem is not only that those in power abuse it. The problem is that power is concentrated in the first place.
Forest service to remove your voice from public lands decisions
A new proposal would shrink the public’s right to comment on the rulebooks that govern grazing, logging, and permits across the national forests. You can have your say right now.
Making ‘Land Back’ a reality through an Indigenous community land trust
How the Wiyot people and local organizers are using an “honor tax” system to advance Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
Why climate movements struggle to talk about class
Environmental movements often frame injustice through race and gender while overlooking the ways class shapes power, exclusion, and whose voices are heard. The result is a climate politics that can alienate the very working-class communities needed to build effective movements.
Thinking as a movement: Why the co-op movement needs open debate to thrive
Open, transparent debate is essential for the cooperative movement. Yet in many co-ops, criticism stays private, and praise goes public, leaving members in the dark, weakening collective decision-making, and enabling bad ideas and bad actors to proliferate.
Real economic change requires more than reform, we must build a solidarity economy
Elections and protest movements may shift public attention, but systemic change depends on building resilient economies capable of replacing the structures now driving inequality and social fragmentation. The solidarity economy, an evolving network of post-capitalist worker-driven coalitions, is what we need.
How to stay sane in a burning world: The four neural states of the polycrisis
From climate collapse to permanent war, our nervous systems are stuck between numbness and panic. A climate scientist argues that surviving the polycrisis means learning to move deliberately between neural states and building smaller, more grounded movements that protect our ability to care without breaking.
What is good activism?
I had a letter from a young reader last week, asking what I thought about concrete steps that we might be taking in place of what passes for activism in our present culture.
