Shining Bright: The Promise of the Sunrise Movement

Composed of activists from high school age to their mid-20s, the Sunrise Movement formed to challenge power by targeting Congresspeople and tackling the climate crisis in a loud, uniquely jubilant voice.

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Climate Necessity and the Future of Environmental Dissent

"Social progress requires working outside of established channels. Climate necessity activists have pushed their cause away from wonky, inside-baseball environmentalism and toward grassroots, social justice insurgency.”

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Quebec City Mosque Killings Were Fuelled By Trump's and Le Pen's Racist Rhetoric

Alexandre Bissonette was a recent convert to rightwing nationalist ideology following Marine Le Pen's visit to Quebec City in March, and became known online for defending Trump’s nativist, anti-immigrant positions.

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Fighting the Black Snake At Two Rivers: How Standing Rock-Style Protest Came to West Texas

The 142-mile-long Trans-Pecos Pipeline would bring fracked gas to the small border city of Presidio, where it would continue on into northern Mexico – in the process crossing under the Rio Grande, threatening fragile water supplies.

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"They are Millionaires, We are Millions!" - Nuit Debout Looks Ahead As Occupation Winds Down

Nuit Debout is, like Occupy, a manifestation of people who want to do things differently.

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Victorious in Maine, Nestlé is on a Quest to Take Over the World's Water

The Swiss corporation Nestlé has a penchant for gobbling up huge areas of freshwater across the planet and bottling it for profit – even as judges, courts, cities and entire regions try to stand in their way.

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Breaking Free: 12 Days of Protest Open a Summer of Environmental Discontent

Global international actions this month aimed at halting fossil fuel extraction have ranged from North America to Nigeria to New Zealand and the message throughout is clear: we must act urgently to end humanity’s reliance on coal, oil and gas.

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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging

What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.

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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race

The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.

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As Climate Crisis Deepens, Environment Remains Off the Mainstream Radar

It seems little consolation that some day, not far in the future, activists will be able to say “I told you so” to all those who downplayed or denied the existence of global warming – none of whom will be immune to the consequences.

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