Why Rest in Urgent Times?

By Laura Johnson, Resilience.org

 What if pausing – slowing down – feeling – could re-embed this truth in our bodies and in the world? What if we could soften into this spaciousness?

The Authoritarian Fetish

By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium

This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.

Why climate activists need to celebrate — even if we’re not feeling like it

By Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence

So, after all this, I am going to organize a little party to teach what we won, honor what’s good that we like and commit to continue on the struggle. I hope you’ll join me with your own form of celebrating, too.

Degrowth & Strategy is released!

By Degrowth & Strategy editorial team, Degrowth.de

We think Degrowth & Strategy provides a good first reflection on the need, the meaning of and various approaches to strategizing for degrowth. We hope that it sparks further engagement on the topic, both amongst academics and practitioners.

The People vs. Petrocracy

By Stan Cox, City Lights Books

Whether it’s carried out by a local movement such as the L.A. Bus Riders Union or continent-spanning drives like the Native campaigns against Big Oil and Gas, no single effort can snuff out fossil fuel extraction and consumption on its own. The mulitplication of such efforts is therefore essential.

Just… Stop…

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.

Ingredients for a decolonial politics – cooking up a future to delight in

By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy

As we work together to re-discover and build new empowering political systems of collective decision making, and life-giving economic systems that can meet our real needs, how do we ensure that they stay true to the intentions we’re setting out with? How do we surface, heal  and create alternatives to our internalized and cultural habits of domination?

Talking Radical Imagination with Max Haiven

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network

The radical imagination is something that emerges when, as I was mentioning, people come together to struggle against the reality that they’ve been forced into.

How one organization is keeping the spirit of Occupy Wall Street alive

By Akin Olla, Waging Nonviolence

While many see Occupy as a failure or victory for the left, Momentum understands it as a lesson that needs to be dissected and understood.

Everyone has a role to play in stopping the Line 3 pipeline

By Eileen Flanagan, Waging Nonviolence

When sociologist Bill Moyer studied successful social change movements, he found that four roles showed up over and over again: helpers, advocates, organizers and rebels...

Resisting the everyday violence of colonial extractivism

By Michael Wilson Becerril, ROAR Magazine

In the face of environmental collapse, deepening inequalities and capitalism in crisis, resisting violence effectively requires rethinking its meanings and challenging its hegemonic constructions.

A horizonal look at social entropy

By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org

Competition is failing us: a horizonal index of entropy indicates how. We must transform social relations toward cooperation. The symptoms of organizational stress alone would justify this, as an ethical route to ecological health and peaceful lives.