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.

How to Bring About Catastrophic Success in the Face of Climate Change

By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine

The collective project of remaking the world needs to be approached with care for—and active consent from—everyone, because everyone is working together on a project that will be better than anything that currently exists.

Internationalism or Extinction

By Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Open Democracy

In his new book Internationalism or Extinction, Noam Chomsky traces the duality of existential threats from nuclear weapons and climate change. He argues for the urgency of international climate and arms agreements, and shows how global popular movements are mobilizing to force governments to meet this unprecedented challenge to civilization’s survival.

The Flawed Social Science Behind Extinction Rebellion’s Change Strategy

By Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence

Given that XR’s recent Autumn action did not produce the same level of success and change as the previous actions, we now have fairly clear empirical evidence that XR’s present strategy may be reaching its ‘peak’. If it is to continue to scale as a movement, this needs to be confronted head-on. XR now has the opportunity to review and enhance its strategy, and I offer this critical appraisal in that spirit as a humble contribution to augment such efforts.