Wen Stephenson
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Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood on Their New Initative, Third Act
They spoke to The Nation about their generation—and how to get their peers back in the streets. → Read More
Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau
“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?” → Read More
Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power. → Read More
What’s Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism.
A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. → Read More
How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine
State Senator Chloe Maxmin, a progressive activist who unseated the GOP minority leader in November, talks about social-movement organizing. → Read More
The Hardest Thing About the Green New Deal
Three new books raise the question: What does global solidarity look like at this late hour? → Read More
Voices From the Front Lines of a Climate Direct Action Campaign
“We are removing our consent from this system, and we are not asking for anyone’s permission.” → Read More
‘This Is an Emergency,’ the Caller Said. ‘You Need to Stop the Train.’
Climate justice protesters blockaded train tracks in Massachusetts this week. Despite an emergency call and other warnings, the train kept coming. → Read More
Divining Comedy
A conversation with Amitav Ghosh, author of “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” and now a new darkly comedic novel, “Gun Island.” → Read More
Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement on Climate Justice, the Green New Deal, and Revolution
“We didn’t ask to have the responsibility of protecting human civilization on our shoulders. But we’re stepping up to the plate.” → Read More
What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe
Bill McKibben has shown us what it means to live within the truth of our struggle for human survival. Will a new generation find the courage to do the same? → Read More
This Landmark Trial of Climate Activists Puts the Political System Itself on Trial
In a Minnesota courtroom, the Valve Turners are using the “necessity defense” in their shutdown of the tar-sands pipeline. → Read More
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal—And I’m Willing to Go to Jail to Say So
A big part of what makes nonviolent civil disobedience powerful is the willingness of those engaging in it to suffer the consequences. → Read More
Houston’s Human Catastrophe Started Long Before the Storm
Decades of neglect, inequality, and disenfranchisement mean that all Houstonians, but especially the poorest and most vulnerable, have been left utterly undefended. → Read More
Bob Massie Is Putting Climate and Democracy at the Center of the Massachusetts Governor’s Race
If this racial-justice and climate activist wins the nomination, he’ll be on the ballot along with Senator Elizabeth Warren. → Read More
Climate Disobedience in the Time of Trump
Ken Ward and Emily Johnston are willing to spend decades in prison for shutting down tar-sands oil pipelines. They want you to understand why. → Read More
Normalizing Denial: Trump, Tillerson, and Climate Reality
A political culture that can accommodate Exxon’s climate denial is a political culture ripe for Trump. → Read More
Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them
This week, the global climate-justice movement launches #BreakFree2016, a wave of mass direct action aimed at some of the most dangerous fossil-fuel infrastructure projects on the planet. → Read More
Trumping the COP
The rise of Donald Trump adds urgency to the fight for climate justice—and reminds us what that fight is really about. → Read More
What Will It Take To Force a Real Conversation About Climate Change?
Earlier this month, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein released their new documentary film about the global struggle for climate justice, This Changes Everything, based largely on Klein’s 2014 book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism v. the Climate. → Read More