After the People’s Climate March, It Is Time To Demand More

Precious time will tell what lasting impacts the demonstrations will have – but already the climate protests that shook New York and much of the world left their mark upon upper echelon spheres of power.

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Greenwashing and the Bloombergification of the World's Cities

Are you an unpopular mayor who terrorized minorities and mistreated your employees? Try giving lip service to climate change, like Michael Bloomberg has.

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Crashing the Party at Davos: It's Time to Seize Power on the Mountaintop

Humanity does have a chance at survival: it just lies at much lower altitudes in the social hierarchy than the crowd now patting themselves on the back at the World Economic Form in Davos.

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Learning to Live in the Anthropocene

There's no conspiracy underway to destroy Earth. UN delegates inside the Warsaw climate conference, shirking their obligations to us and future generations, are simply following the logic of a system contingent on endless growth in the interest of profit.

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"Fight for 15" Strikes Demand Higher Pay

Nationwide "Fight for 15" strikes calling for higher pay have spurred a debate over what constitutes a living wage and helped shift the labor movement toward direct action.

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Coalitions March in 200 U.S. Cities to "Draw the Line" Against Keystone Pipeline

400 demonstrators marched through Manhattan's Financial District and surrounded the Keystone pipeline's largest financiers with a blue line to show where the waters of the Hudson and East River will soon lap.

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On the Eve of Possible Strikes on Syria, Forces of Peace Gather in New York

Polls show a vast majority of Americans oppose military intervention in Syria, as rallies against U.S. air strikes were held in over 50 U.S. cities during Labor Day weekend.

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Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing

JPMorgan Chase's criminal, "systemic cover-up" in its manipulation of energy markets reveals a sea change, as banks have gone from simply financing the dirty energy sector to becoming producers and distributors in those markets.

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Battle for LICH Brooklyn Hospital Escalates

As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, moves to close a 155-year-old hospital in downtown Brooklyn — and potentially sell it to a for-profit entity or a developer — could have national implications.

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Storing Data, Burning Carbon: The Ecology of a National Security State

The indiscriminate and warrantless collection of personal data from millions of people not only violates the U.S. Constitution — the data farms are also an extreme waste of water and electricity.

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