Black Lives and the (Broken) Promise of Public Space
The promise of our public spaces is the assurance that we can live well together, creating places that we can all enjoy and call our own.
Social justice
Female Migrant Farmworkers Push Back Against Machismo and Abuse in California’s Wine Country
Viticulture, or la uva, “the grape,” as Sofia and other Latino farmworkers refer to the sector, also draws undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Journeying to the United States to work is the dream held and died for by hundreds of thousands, but the reality is hard work, long hours, and meager pay.
At the Nexus of Gentrification and Environmentalism
Optimism is alive in a new generation of environmentally aware and astute African American young people who “get it.”
Energy and Justice
The ability to harness energy creates wealth and confers social power.
Is Sustainability only for the Privileged?
Those proposing just sustainability argue that if sustainability only includes or is only for the benefit of privileged people, then logically we don’t have any hope of actually achieving it.
The Art of Working Together
You must have a clear vision, you must know where you are going.
Decolonizing Permaculture
In this article we will seek to answer the following questions: of What is decolonization? Why should permaculture designers care?
People Are Not Disposable: ‘Zero Waste’ and Ecological Justice
Join Mateo Nube from Movement Generation, as he lays out a Just Transition Framework for Action.
Freedom Technologists and the Future of Global Justice
But what role have internet freedom activists – or ‘freedom technologists’ – played in ongoing struggles for progressive political change around the world and how can the pursuit of liberty be combined with the struggle for social justice?
Minimum Wage or Commoning?
In such a context, the minimum wage – which is supposed to create a minimum level of equality in formal terms – can never create a feeling of social justice.
How to Stop Competing and Start Building Community
If we want to address the entrenched injustices and suffering in the world, then, put simply, activists will need to work together.
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
The documentary Weather Gone Wild reports on inventive ways officials and ordinary people are adapting to the predictable unpredictability of the more extreme weather we are experiencing—and will continue to experience, more intensely—due to climate change.
