NEWS
Damming Mekong: What It Means for Fishing Communities?
Editor's Note: Development projects have always destroyed local ways of living and nonhuman communities. Numerous examples attest to that. The government of Cambodia need not look very far. The Lower Sesan 2 dam it built despite resistance has collectively been...
Fallen 200: Land Defenders Murdered in 2021
Editor's note: Land defenders, especially indigenous land defenders, are at risk across the world, more so in some places than others. In their fight to protect their communities and their land, they directly confront structures of power, challenging the powerful's...
Ecosaboteur Ruby Montoya Sentenced to 6 Years in Federal Prison
Editor’s note: After months of aboveground organizing against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek conducted a campaign of underground sabotage to stop the pipeline in 2017. When their action received no media attention, they decided to...
ACTION
How to Build a Coalition
Editor's note: The ability to work with others who we may disagree is fundamental to organizing in a socially fractured, multi-polar world. But doing so is difficult, distasteful, and increasingly rare in our filter-bubble modern experience, where people we disagree...
To the Activists of the World: Thank You
By Max Wilbert We are living in an ecological catastrophe. Our world is being killed before our eyes. This hurts. And so for many people, their response is either apathy, complete emotional shutdown, or a nihilistic embrace of powerlessness. There is another option....
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too.
Editor's note: Luddism is often dismissed as "backwardness," but it is actually a more advanced, considered, and wise position on technology. To be a Luddite is to stand with workers and the natural world against the death march of technology. This essay is a general...
ANALYSIS
Renewable Energy Isn’t Replacing Fossil Fuel Energy
Editor's note: It is true that wind and heat from the sun are renewable but the devices used to capture that energy are not. Creating such devices only adds on to a non-existing carbon budget. Richard Heinberg, the author of the following article, is an advocate for...
Social Movements in Defense of Our Territories Are Our Hope
Editor's Note: The mainstream environmental movement has been co-opted not only into believing that renewables can save the planet, but also in the tactics used to accomplish that. A lot of the movement uses advocacy as the one and only strategy against systems of...
Declaring Climate Emergency – What Does It Really Mean?
Editor's note: Mainstream environmentalists have been demanding that countries across the world declare a "climate emergency." But what does a climate emergency mean? What will the consequences be? Is there a possibility that it will be more detrimental to the...
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