People Power

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Breaking Out of the Domination Trance

Journal Article

I have been asked to tell you about the findings from my research identifying the core components of a safer, more equitable, and caring world—especially one where women and children are finally safe—a goal that is very close to my heart.

Published in Winter 2018 By Riane Eisler

A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin

Journal Article

Alanis Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canada's foremost activist documentary filmmakers. Obomsawin began her artistic life as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, as indigenous artists from across North America were rallying in new assertions of cultural identity, consciousness, and political rights, calling for reckonings with oppressive colonial history.

Published in Spring 2019 By Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

The Community Awaiting Us

Journal Article

To help us meet the challenge of climate chaos, the biggest challenge humans have ever faced, we have the science now, the telecommunications, and vast amounts of information. What we need more than anything is our natural strength and legacy of being in community.

Published in Spring 2019 By Joanna Macy

Documenting Land Trauma

Journal Article

Since the mid-1990s, when I first learned about it, a fervent desire of mine has been for this type of coal mining to be halted and forever banned. If my photos have helped build a movement calling for the abolition of mountain-top removal, then I have accomplished something in my life.

Published in Summer 2019 By Vivian Stockman

The Gift of Tears

Journal Article

These writers do not tell us that receiving the gift of tears means we remain in a state of mourning. If we can, we need to keep walking. If we haven’t already done so, we need to articulate what is dear to us, what it is in the natural world that we truly love.

Published in Summer 2019 By Margaret Miller

Selfcare Freedom

Journal Article

The Diaspora Coalition’s medicinal herb production project interconnects communities which grow their own plant medicine at the hyper-local level.

Published in Summer 2019 By Pamela Boyce Simms

Rhino Conservation

Journal Article

There has been lots of press around big cats and elephants. Not as many people know about the plight of the rhinos and, in fact, I did not. I said, "Fantastic. If the rhinos need help, then we are here to help the rhinos."

Published in Summer 2019 By Heather Smith

Restoring the Housatonic River Walk

Journal Article

The ongoing creation of River Walk also speaks to the human element. It marks the confluence of ecological renewal, environmental and social justice, the underpinnings of the industrial revolution, and the vitality of a downtown.

Published in Fall 2019 By Suzanne Fowle

Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance

Journal Article

Conscious organizing addresses the most fundamental need we have as humans to belong to a community.

Published in Fall 2019 By Lisa Fithian

Re-Imagining America

Journal Article

We are individually and collectively in the same boat; how do we become more caring, loving human beings while creating a society which fosters equality, relationship, opportunity, freedom and love?

Published in Winter 2019 By Christopher Schaefer