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The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism "Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of ...
The Green Belt Movement, and the Story of Wangari Maathai Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Peace Prize brings trees, women, democracy, and the continent of Africa into the center of global discussions of peace ...
Would You Put a Tiny House for a Homeless Person in Your Backyard? Because two Seattle homeowners were willing to make space, a 75-year-old man who’s been homeless for years now has a house and a ...
The long-term solution to the plastics problem is stopping the flow at its source. But even if we were to magically achieve that today, the world would still be awash in nearly a century’s worth of ...
What a Public Bank Can Do for Real People North Dakota has the only state-owned bank in the nation. Advocates say it’s a model for getting state tax money invested in communities.
The writer and activist Robert Jensen does a close reading of Ijeoma Oluo’s latest book, and considers what we need to dismantle for our mutual survival.
Joel Salatin is no simple farmer. When he speaks, he at times takes on the air of a Southern preacher, philosopher, heretic, businessman, activist, or ecological engineer. Since Michael Pollan’s book ...
“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.
How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world.
Healing Generational Trauma For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach.