Europe’s climate movement is fractured and stuck — here is a way forward
The iterations of the climate movement of previous years are not the movements that will win the struggle today.
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Community Radio and Social Power
As small-scale stations whose airwaves spread over short distances, community radio stations deal with local issues and problems, while at the same time they examine the multiple threads that exist between nature and culture.
Unite to Win: A groundbreaking coalition of groups to join ‘The Big One’
It is possible to change society in a way that is just and fair, to put care for people and nature at the forefront. It is possible to rediscover our collective power and change the course of history together. To make this a reality, this moment calls for a mass movement to stand together and become impossible to ignore.
In the Face of Cascading Crises, What Can I Do?
If you have the capacity, I encourage you to revisit your values, review your past actions, and commit to doing something more this year. Any action, no matter how small, that’s congruent with solid values will make a difference.
Property ≠ Life
If property is part of our essential identity, then destroying property looks a lot like destroying life; and we do use the same word: ‘violence’, to describe destruction of either thing.
Vigils for Tortuguita: Land Defenders Erupt in Solidarity
In Tortuguita’s honor, we will keep creating poetry and art, participating in mutual aid, fighting for abolition, mending, knocking down borders, transitioning, putting our bodies in between the state and its victims, and building radical models of care and community.
Betsy Taylor: “Finding Hope in Nature-Based Solutions”
In this episode, Nate is joined by environmental and social activist Betsy Taylor. She and Nate have a wide ranging conversation about climate, consumption, culture, nuclear war, agriculture and the future.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
Poison for the people — How an exiled activist is countering Russia’s propaganda machine
Because if you stop buying oil, gas and coal from Putin’s Russia it will help you to stop war on Ukraine on the one hand and it will help you to save the climate on the other.
The Uncertain Activist: more thoughts on uncertainty
I have taken to heart the insight that possibly, the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis; that we see this thing we call ‘the climate’ through a window whose frame is itself the product of our toxic culture.
Guatemalan Water Defenders Celebrate 10 Years of Resistance
With national and international laws designed to privilege such harmful activities in the name of so-called development and progress, it is vital to celebrate the milestones of people fighting against all odds to protect their lives and lands from such threats.
Some thoughts on strategy, and climate change, and feeling like you’re not trying your hardest…
“What can I do?”, “How hard should I try?”, “Why aren’t we all on the streets, night after night, fighting for change?”… Perhaps, all we can say at the end of it all is that asking these questions is an important part of the process. A sign that you’re still fighting, still human. You have not given up.