As the “HSBC 9” eco-protesters are acquitted of criminality, an eloquent open letter explains their actions
ACTION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneExtinction Rebellion, activism, climate activism, green protest, protest
Alternative Editorial: Four Perspectives On One Reality
"The next big thing in climate action will be many smaller things". The Climate Majority Project brings Lords and Swampies together
COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LEARNING, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, activism, creative activism, Extinction Rebellion, Rupert read
Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest
ACTION, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, MANIFESTOS, COMMUNITY, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanexr, Extinction Rebellion, strategy, climate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, activism
Mothers’ Rebellion takes the spirit of XR and puts it in the hands of mums, placing the fate of children front and centre
The Climate Majority Project, says Rupert Read, will build citizens' confidence to act for the planet, where they are
"What if we imagine the abundance of doing right the things we’ve done wrong?" An interview with Rebecca Solnit
XR said recently "We Quit". They’re still activists. But they are trying to get out of the "emotacycle"—peak activity, then burnout
Throwing soup on the glass: some arguments for the Van Gogh protests (with a protestor speaking)
ACTION, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, YOUTH, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOURpat kanecreative activism, activism, protest, just stop oil
An online school for social justice - with video courses that teach you how to persist, insist and resist
Alternative Editorial: COP Reveals A Power Vacuum
Alternative Editorial: Let the Conference of the Parties (COP) Begin.
Alternative Editorial: Anthea Lawson on how activism is vital - so we should understand better why we do it
The protestors in Hong Kong and Moscow are full of brilliant ideas - and may inspire our own democratic activism
Is activism "a magic inoculation against the gravitational pull of the sofa"? Or do we underestimate how much it turns others off?
“It is like day and night, an incredible transformation”: how climate activism can solve teenage mental health
How activists (school strikers and XR'ers) have shifted the policies of top-down politicians and officials
Does changing the world start "from within", or "in between"? Some wisdom on activism from the late Alessandra Pigni
A young girl skips school to climate-protest in front of her Parliament - and other stories from Masha Gessen
Alternative Editorial: the Feeling of Rising Up