Author: Alexandria Shaner
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Resisting Empire and Injustice Through Fiction
Empire and injustice are not abstract concepts – they shape our daily lives. Awareness alone won’t change that. We can read the news, digest the facts, but change requires more … Keep reading »
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Expanding the Possible: A Climate Change Strategy from Below?
The Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, but it is thriving in communities, cities, and states. Jeremy Brecher’s new book is both an urgent call to action and proof of concept. Keep reading »
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Oil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
Despite increasing repression, an unprecedented alliance of civil resistance groups is targeting airports on three continents to demand a binding treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030. Keep reading »
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From Argentina with Love, and Rage
Anti-extractivist struggle, the carbon credit scam, weaving solidarity, and organizing under an extreme right wing government with Clarisa Neztor, a young activist from Misiones. Keep reading »
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Break the Silence, Free Congo
As violent militias rampage across the country, activists in the DRC are urgently calling for an end to Rwanda’s
aggression and for a green transition that puts justice first, dismantling colonial exploitation once and for all. François Kamate, a young Congolese activist, shares his experience and offers pathways to solidarity. Keep reading » -
Ecuador is Not For Sale
A coalition of eco-activist, civil society, and indigenous groups are facing increased repression and violence in the struggle to halt extractivism and to hold the Noboa administration accountable to Ecuador’s laws enshrining the rights of nature. Keep reading »
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Ten Years of Citizens’ Assemblies in Slovenia
Interview with IMZ (Iniciativa mestni zbor) in Slovenia about the citizens’ assemblies movement, vision, and strategy. Keep reading »
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Economic Vision for Everyone: How to Organize a Green Economy of Solidarity, Equity, and Self-Determination
An economy is a system of production and consumption activities connected via allocation mechanisms. Simply, it is how people produce items and services that other people later consume. Economies are … Keep reading »
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The Activist’s Antidote: A Conversation about Depression, Hopelessness, and Burnout
We are social creatures – we like to be heard. Yet, an enduring tragedy of modern society remains that there are things more often left unsaid, on the rare occasion … Keep reading »
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Participatory Economics: What, Why, How
There may be one thing in the world that most of humanity agrees on. When considering the state of present-day institutions of economy, polity, community, and kinship relations, people broadly … Keep reading »