How to Get Banks Not to Fund Oil Pipelines? Aim High and Keep Showing Up
A few months after temporarily shutting down 13 Chase branches, Seattle climate activists were at it again with a tar sands petition.
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Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a 鈥渏ust transition,鈥� anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
What a Revived Poor People鈥檚 Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.
Austin Police Try to Get Beyond Trans Misgendering and 鈥淒eadnaming鈥�
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it鈥檚 just the first step.
Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It鈥檚 terribly, terrifyingly normal.
Clues From History: Why Trump鈥檚 Presidency Is Over
Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity鈥攁nd crumbled.
Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People
We鈥檝e been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Locals and Tribes March Together to Oppose Construction of Natural Gas Plant
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Robert Reich鈥檚 Summer Survival Guide for the Trump Era
10 ways to get your mind off this White House.
Charlottesville Was Not a 鈥淧rotest Turned Violent.鈥� It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn鈥檛 it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
Fight Fascism With a Dance Party
Where fascism aims to instill fear, joy is the perfect resistance.
Why Police Violence Against Women of Color Stays Hidden
Data show more Black men are killed at higher rates than women, but police-misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie says that doesn鈥檛 tell the whole story.
It鈥檚 Time to Restore and Strengthen the Voting Rights Act
On the 52nd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, 31 states with histories of racial discrimination no longer have federal oversight of their voting process.
Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do
An online platform might be just the thing to spread around our grassroots genius.
A Former EPA Adviser on How to Push for Environmental Justice Under Trump
鈥淚n our country there are two things that move policy. One is money. The other is the power of people.鈥�
The More Education, the Wider the Gender Pay Gap鈥擶ait, What?
Seattle women make less than men, but especially those with advanced degrees.
Family Life Without Fossil Fuels鈥擲low and Satisfying
A visit to the Possibility Alliance reminded me also that the one constant of life is change.
A Manual for the New Era of Activist
Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.
Outdoors Lovers Vote With Their Wallets, Move $45 Million Trade Show Out of Utah
The outdoor-recreation industry delivered a big blow to Utah鈥檚 economy because of the state鈥檚 attempts to remove protections for public lands.
Standing Rock Lawsuit Started a Year Ago. Here鈥檚 Where We Are Now
A recent victory has sent the Army Corps of Engineers back to analyze the environmental justice effects of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Why We Shouldn鈥檛 Think of Climate Change as Only a 鈥淕lobal鈥� Issue
While it is true that climate change is a global problem, we have power when we act locally.
6 Badass Acts of Resistance Erased From History
There are entire generations of social justice activists and environmental protectors that we don鈥檛 learn about in school.
Will Democrats Finally Go Bold or Go Home?
The party鈥檚 new agenda promises to be on 鈥渢he side of working people,鈥� so why aren鈥檛 more Americans excited about it?
Medicaid Survived the Health Care Battle鈥擭ow Let鈥檚 Give It to Everyone
We should ditch employer-provided insurance. Administrative costs for Medicaid are nearly half of the cost of private sector plans. Yes, half.
What鈥檚 Next for Health Care? Confused Congress Should Look to Indian Country
Indian Health Service is a great example of health care run and managed by the government. Let鈥檚 use it to figure out what works and what doesn鈥檛.
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