Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.
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.
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.
How the Wiyot people and local organizers are using an “honor tax” system to advance Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
MLK teaches us that this kind of systemic change will not come without struggle and personal sacrifice. He asks us each to consider the role we will play.
