Why We Fight
By Chris Hedges I park my car in the lot in front of the rectory of Sacred Heart in Camden, N.J., and walk through a gray drizzle to Emerald Street. My friend Lolly Davis, whose blood pressure...
View ArticleWhile Colorado Burns, Washington Fiddles
By Bill McKibben In the political world, this was the week of the healthcare ruling: reporters hovered around the supreme court, pundits pundited, politicians "braced" for the ruling, "reeled" in its...
View ArticleA Homeless Polar Bear In London
A collaboration of consciousness, good intention, and celebrity strategy between Radiohead, Greenpeace, and Jude Law. Protect the Arctic. Save the polar bears. Seriously.
View ArticleDeclaration Of Internet Freedom
We're totally endorsing this. So is Amnesty International, Upworthy, ACLU, Credo, Reddit, Cheezburger, Rhizome, 350, Boing Boing, Techdirt, Motherjones, The Nation, Daily Kos and hundreds of others....
View ArticleThe Art Of Artivism: Moving A Turbine Into An Art Museum
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View ArticleGrowing Beyond Growth For True Democracy
By J.A. Myerson [YES] "Growth” is, once again, the buzzword of the moment among Europe’s politicians, thanks to Francoise Hollande, the milquetoast Socialist recently elected to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy...
View ArticleThe Selling Of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm
By Robert Reich Who’s buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn. And they’re doing much of it in secret. It’s a perfect...
View ArticleWe Live In The Biggest Company Town On Earth
By Chris Hedges Joe Sacco and I, one afternoon when we were working in southern West Virginia on our book "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," parked our car on the side of a road. We walked with...
View ArticleSave The Arctic: A Vicious Circle
The Arctic ice we all depend on is disappearing. Fast. In the last 30 years, we’ve lost as much as three-quarters of the floating ice cap at the top of the world. The volume of that sea ice measured...
View ArticleA Long Hot Summer
By Bill McKibben It's turning into a hot climate summer in two ways, only one of which you can measure with a thermometer. Amidst the deepening drought, the summer's fourth heat wave, and the...
View ArticleIn The Land Of Never Was
By Phil Rockstroh Often, the world…forever unfolding, recombining, morphing, dying and transforming…changes before the mind can grasp the implications of the ongoing alterations. This is the basis of...
View ArticleThe Punk Patriot: The Species Of Activism
By Asher Platts The following is a lecture I gave at the annual "Peace of Mind" conference on behalf of New Hampshire Peace Action in the spring of 2010.With my online persona, I blog, I make videos,...
View ArticleSelf-Evident Truths
By Derrick Jensen There isn't a chance in hell that something like the original Wilderness Act could be passed today. Environmentalists today are too much on the defensive. Sure, there have been green...
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