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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.