Friday, July 11, 2025

Tag: activism

Northwest climate activists fight a new front in the movement to...

Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in the Northwest.

A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less...

Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition.

Court hears appeal in Canadian youth climate lawsuit

The case requests a court order declaring the government’s conduct as unconstitutional and mandating the government implement a science-based climate recovery plan to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions according to its fair share.

There’s no such thing as ‘humane slaughter’ of livestock—federal records prove...

We know that “humane slaughter” is an oxymoron.

Harnessing the enormous untapped power of celebrity to help social movements

Organizers should recognize that many performers come from creative subcultures which are generally progressive and bohemian, or from countercultures that celebrate non-market values.

How books can be used to build up America or to...

The assault on classroom libraries represents one front in DeSantis’s scorched-earth campaign to divide communities and marginalize certain Americans.

Behold, the new GOP culture wars

The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.

What determines the success of movements today?

The importance of timing, external factors and luck certainly leave some open questions.

Google’s stock climbed after it fired 12,000 employees—but what did they...

The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

This is one of the best times in history to be...

“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny.”

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A new far-right American party?

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. What is his next target: democracy?

Melting glaciers could lead to more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions: Study

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid global war crime...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation

Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?