Kids on Chicago’s West Side Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Restorative Circles
“How can we create an environment that doesn’t just respond effectively to harm once it happens but also actively creates safety on our communities’ own terms?”
social movements
Review: “Corporations are not People”
The title says it all: Corporations Are Not People.
Divestment from Fossil Fuels: A Critical Appraisal
Divestment is strictly the selling up of all fossil fuel share holdings. However it is currently difficult to decide which fossil should have priority for this though gas is widely, though probably inaccurately, considered to be of less priority than the other fossil fuels, or even exempt from divestment*.
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
The attraction of profit in the short-term overwhelms longer-term considerations, even for the most “enlightened” of businesspeople.
Breaking: Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State
In a victory for environmental, health and community activists, fracking has been banned in New York state.
A Framework for New Economy Organizing
When I first got involved in the co-op movement I didn’t do it because I thought the co-operative model was an end in itself.
Right to Land and Seed
“Food sovereignty” is the main political demand of the landless and peasant movement in Bangladesh in times of climate change and intensifying land conflicts.
Kinder Morgan Leaves Burnaby Mountain in Win for Pipeline Protesters
On the morning of November 28, after weeks of sustained protest, energy infrastructure company Kinder Morgan packed up the equipment it had planned to use in the construction of a new pipeline on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia, and left without finishing the job.
Revolucíon
"Marx said the opium of the masses was religion. For the USA, it’s Netflix and Wal-Mart."
Do We Live on a One-Party Planet?
At /The Rules, we think its time for a new marker; one that grows very much from the 1%-99% meme, and, hopefully, adds something important. And it’s that we now all live on a One Party Planet.
Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
We are all striving to create communities that create more life, rather than destroy it.
Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, We Need Radical Change to Prevent Catastrophic Warming
House lawmakers passed legislation Friday to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would bring carbon-intensive tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast.