If you agree with us, please click here to sign onto our letter. As a nation we face three converging crises: the COVID19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession; the climate emergency; and extreme inequality. Unemployment is rising at the...
Daniel Denver of The Dig interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. The Dig podcast goes deep into politics everywhere, from labor...
“This is what arts and resistance looks like in San Francisco!” declared one of the many groups involved in the collective action. “Shutting down 2 blocks of SF’s financial district to disrupt climate profiteers!” “Yesterday...
Land and Water Defender Beginnings In 2011, as a 20 year old activist new to the environmental movement I joined up with other like-minded people for a retreat in rural Wisconsin to plan and strategize our next steps. As a Black woman, it was...
On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia Debates about the Green New Deal—Ocasio-Cortez’s version and occasionally radical varieties such as that of the US Green Party—have incited much discussion about paths to utopia. Central to...
On Tuesday, June 4, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, three judges of the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments by the Trump Administration seeking to stop the Juliana v. United States lawsuit brought by a group of young people claiming a constitutional right to...
THE GREEN NEW Deal resolution introduced into Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey is a manifesto that has changed the terms of the debate over the country’s future. Cutting through the Trump administration’s...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s landmark October 2018 report declared that preventing runaway global warming will require “far-reaching transitions in energy, land … and industrial systems” for which there is “no documented...
This pieces is a response to “We Can’t Beat Climate Change Under Capitalism. Socialism Is the Only Way.” Ashley is correct that addressing the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of the economic system, including more state-led...
This piece is a response to “We Don’t Have Time to End Capitalism—But Growth Can Still Be Green.” While the question of whether we should address capitalism first or climate change first is often posed in sequential terms, it is a false...