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We’re Making Progress in Preventing Gender-Based Violence
By Lisa Wheildon On Friday, as around 5,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne for the Walk Against Family Violence, which every year kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...
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Voices From the Rental Crisis
By Daniel Ross I think it is about time that our City Council and our Provincial Government did something about all these evictions that are going on, and all these terrible rent increases… I think...
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Let’s Get Loud!
I could start this article with alarming facts on the climate crisis. Yet I don’t. As you decided to read this, I bet you know all of them and feel sick of it. Welcome to the club! For 2024, I want...
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Why 2024 Is Shaping Up to Be a Total Shitstorm
We started out 2023 with a war raging in Ukraine, rising fascism and far-right politics in many nations, the pandemic waning, and Donald Trump still very popular and making headlines. We’re starting...
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Actually, Body Positivism Is Empowering Women to Live
By Liz Allen ‘Get out of the way, you fat fuck’. These are the words a young bloke yelled at me from his moving car as I walked across a carpark in suburban Canberra. He swerved his car toward me, I...
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An Illusion None of Us Can Afford, an Opportunity All of Us Can Embrace
We humans have many biases, but one that often asserts itself is the negativity bias, or a propensity to select, or attend to negative instead of positive information. We often expect the worst. We...
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Hope in the Dark and the Sociological Imagination, Part One
This morning I read an article about an attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops. I also read about a homeless encampment in California–a cave built underneath a roadway–that illuminates the...
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‘Hope Is the Last to Die’: Q&A With Indigenous Leader Jose Parava on Land Rights
By Michael Esquer Jose Antônio Parava Ramos is a young leader of the Chiquitano people from the Portal do Encantado Indigenous land, in Mato Grosso state, west-central Brazil, bordering Bolívia. The...
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Every Climate Activist Needs an Elevator Speech
As with most people, public speaking does not come naturally to me. As a teacher, I was able to put on my ‘teacher voice’ and knowing the topic, motivate students to learn. But distilling the climate...
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The Demonization of Environmental Activists Through the ‘Dark Triad’ Myth
Because the environmental crisis is so grave, and so many people either deny that the crisis exists or drag their feet in addressing the situation, some environmental activists have felt compelled to...
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Q&A: ‘Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action’
By Michaela Herrmann on Desmog What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Professor Dana R. Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving...
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God’s Details Are the Devil’s Handiwork
The God of the Bible rested on the seventh day and was meticulously detail-oriented, even allowing freedom of the will for human beings. Apparently, this is the problem. The Devil tempted Adam and...
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From Throwing Soup To Suing Governments, There’s Strategy to Climate...
By Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Climate activism has been on a wild ride lately, from the shock tactics of young activists throwing soup on famous paintings to a...
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Mixed Feelings About Taking My Baby to a Climate Demonstration
A few dozen parents and children were gathered in a circle outside the local library, holding placards and singing. “Mothers gonna rise like the water, gonna face this crisis now. Hear the voices of...
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How Money Laundering Rules Could Be Used to Tackle Deforestation
By Isabella Kaminski on DeSmog A version of this article was originally published on The Wave, a newsletter on climate litigation I spent the last month binging on money laundering TV to research...
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I Didn’t Feel the Earth Move
On Friday morning, 4/5/2024, I was playing with my nearly 2-year-old granddaughter as is typical for my weekday mornings. Two days a week, time spent singing, dancing, cuddling, reading, playing dress...
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I Have to Remind Myself That Anti-Segregation Civil Rights Activists Were...
Four hours after an article was published in the Seattle Times about our blockade of Amazon headquarters there are 99 comments about the article. (As I’m halfway done writing, there are 115.) They...
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‘Planting Water, Eating Caatinga & Irrigating With the Sun’: Interview With...
by Xavier Bartaburu In an interview with Mongabay, Brazilian agroecologist Tião Alves tells how he has been teaching thousands of rural workers to survive in the Caatinga biome, severely afflicted by...
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How Learning to Transmute Anger Into Passion Changed My Life
Quick question: What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and Rosa Parks have in common? I ask people this question every so often, and there are three responses I get more...
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Climate Comedy Works − Here’s Why, and How It Can Help Lighten Up a...
By Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder and Beth Osnes, University of Colorado Boulder In a catchy YouTube video, British comedian Jo Brand translates a scientist’s long-winded description...
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