Yearly Archives: 2016
20 photos: My seven months of living at Standing Rock
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.
Donald Trump’s new nuclear instability
Donald Trump's finger on the nuclear trigger is a terrifying prospect.
Get ready for an all-out assault on social security by Washington in 2017
It is a critical time for this organizing to begin because the attack on Social Security promises to be rapid and brutal.
The Sharing Economy
Peer-to-peer transactions are leaving workers out of the equation.
President Obama created two new national monuments and Republicans are furious
Republicans vow to undo President Obama's new designations, but do they have the power to do so?
Merry Christmas: Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Rationality doesn't seem to be included in the liturgy of right-wingers' political church.
No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes
The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.
Hundreds of peace activists are marching from Berlin to Aleppo
"For us, we took it as our sign, which symbolizes for us the struggle for peace, democracy and freedom. A community … united against the killing.”
It wasn’t all bad: 5 signs of positive change in 2016
The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
My wishes for Obama’s parting shots
In the waning days of his administration, I’d recommend Obama take the following last stands.