Don’t Always Trust Your Perceptions
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Breathing in, I see myself as still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are.
Near the mountain, there is a lake with clear, still water reflecting the mountain and the sky with...
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
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That winter of 2003—you remember it, and so do I—the world assembled, arms linked, to protest the prospect of war in Iraq. What times those were, and how the passions swelled. The fervor of the...
Becoming Midwives for The Great Transition
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Culture Designer Joe Brewer on the need for midwives on a planetary scale to help humanity make the transition to its new story.
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
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At the same moment neo-Nazis with torches were marching on Charlottesville earlier this month, some of the most prominent activists and organizers in the progressive movement were gathered in...
How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
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As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan...
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
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A presidential candidate wins election after denigrating Muslims, Latinos, women and people with disabilities. A young white man opens fire and kills nine African Americans who welcomed him into...
The Miseducation of Dylann Roof
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How did Dylann Roof go from being someone who was not raised in a racist home to someone so steeped in white supremacist propaganda that he murdered nine African Americans during a Bible...
With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism
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Over the course of the last several decades, anti-oppression politics have risen to a position of immense influence on activist discourse in North America. Anti-oppression workshops and reading...
A Critique of Ally Politics
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Dear Beloved Ones in Struggle,
This essay is a love letter to you because I believe in our tremendous power together. I have felt the powers over us, the authorities who would be, tremble, when...
In ’Open Effort to Escalate Racial Tensions’ Trump to Fully Militarize Police
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In what critics are characterizing as a “dangerous” move in the direction of a fully militarized police force, the Trump administration is reportedly gearing up to reverse
In ’Open Effort to Escalate Racial Tensions’ Trump to Fully Militarize Police
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In what critics are characterizing as a “dangerous” move in the direction of a fully militarized police force, the Trump administration is reportedly gearing up to reverse
Top 5 Ways Man-Made Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey Much Worse
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The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at Informed Comment wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality.
Extreme weather events are associated with...
Scent of Geranium - The Story of an Uprooted Iranian in America
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Immigration is a new chapter in one’s life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one’s life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the...
Scent of Geranium - An Iranian Uprooted to America Grows New Roots
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Immigration is a new chapter in one’s life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one’s life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the...
Democracy At Stake - The Sad State of the US Political System
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In this four-part series filmmaker Matthew Cooke joins Patricia Arquette to explore the state of democracy in the United States.
Part 1: Gerrymandering (4mins) - FIght gerrymandering with Vote...
Democracy At Stake - The Sad State of the US Political System
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/democracy-at-stake-the-sad-state-of-the-us-political-system
In this four-part series filmmaker Matthew Cooke joins Patricia Arquette to explore the state of democracy in the United States.
Part 1: Gerrymandering (4mins) - FIght gerrymandering with Vote...
Beautiful Powerful Direct Action for a Clean Energy Future
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Taking direct action against the dirty fossil fuel industry and for a clean energy future, Ende Gelände is a mass action movement focused around Germany’s massive lignite mines and associated...
This Stunning Home, Built of Mud, Connects the Inside with the Outside
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’Kids play with mud. They build sandcastles. It’s like building your own little fortress. It’s not rocket science.’ Ross and Kathryn decided that they were not going to get into debt buying a big...
Prince Ea: Will This Be Humanity’s Fate?
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We all can agree that if Earth dies, we die. So why do so many people keep denying climate change and our impact on this planet? Why do we take our time here for granted? Whether it’s the food we...
How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History
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After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counter...