Reality Is Not What It Seems. And That Might Just Save the Climate
Quantum social activism invites us to think differently about familiar dilemmas, and see what new possibilities may open as a result.
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Can Transformative Change Come to America?
Perhaps sooner than most think, major legislative action regulating greenhouse gas emissions will finally be possible. But that moment will not arrive without deep struggle, organizing, and collective persistence.
“The possible has been tried and failed: now I want to try the impossible”: What Sun Ra can teach the climate movement
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
Getting to the source: A climate activist’s reflections on MLK’s teaching
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.
“Don’t Look Up” (part 2) – What I learned
The climate movie Don’t Look Up has a lot to teach activists, in fact anyone concerned about our future.
The UK’s policing bill will make climate activism almost illegal – just when it’s most needed
The proposed legislation represents a dangerous threat to essential democratic and civil liberties such as the right to protest.
The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism
In many ways, the results of the upcoming elections will reflect the ways youth activists and older activists are able come to a common understanding of what climate justice means and what they want the future world to look like.
‘If We Don’t Fight Against the System, People will Continue to Die’
I go to work kilometres away from my house, to organise people, to give them updates and reassure them that I am with them for real. I do it because people need someone they can lean on, someone they can trust their stories with, someone they feel could help them.
Open Letter to Fridays For Future. It’s Time for Action, but, what Action?
Dear Fridays For Future activists:
I am writing to you as a member of a research group from a Spanish University that has been working on issues of sustainability, energy and climate change for more than ten years. I am doing this because I think that, as you say, it is time for action in the face of the climatic emergency, but I also think that it is necessary to be very clear about what kind of action is necessary.
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook: Review
This Is Not A Drill has been written to clarify, inform, inspire and equip the people who are undecided yet interested in moving deeper into the climate action zeitgeist XR has ingeniously catalysed.
Of warnings and their ripple effects
The problem with this warning, and perhaps also why it is shedding supporters, is that it says all the right things but feels like it is speaking to an empty room. It has all been said before. I confess I have the same issue with street protests. At some point, you have to put down the placard and actually do something about the situation.
Greta and Tokata at the Front Lines
On a world tour for climate justice, Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg visited Native America Oct. 6-8, attracting a gymnasium full of enthusiasts at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, leading a march on Rapid City Hall alongside youth climate leader Tokata Iron Eyes, and speeding off to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
