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• July 21, 2017

Posts Tagged ‘ Rebecca Solnit ’

Protest and Persist: Why Giving Up Hope is Not an Option

March 16, 2017

REBECCA SOLNIT - I began talking about hope in 2003, in the bleak days after the war in Iraq was launched. Fourteen years later, I use the term hope because it navigates a way forward between the false certainties of optimism and of pessimism, and the complacency or passivity that goes with both. Optimism...

Tags: Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Gandhi, James Baldwin, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Michel Foucault, Occupy Wall Street, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Kennedy, Standing Rock, Women’s March
Posted in March 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence

April 19, 2014

REBECCA SOLNIT - If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any...

Tags: Arab Spring, climate change, El Nino, Hurricane Sandy, Occupy Wall Street, Rebecca Solnit
Posted in Analysis, April 2014 | No Comments »

Occupy Everything – Lessons Not Too Late for the Learning

September 30, 2013

DAVID SWANSON - When the Occupy Movement lost its presence on television and therefore in real spaces that are never quite as real as television, it left a positive lasting impact, difficult as yet to measure fully, but observable in many areas.

Tags: David Swanson, Nathan Schneider, occupy movement, Rebecca Solnit
Posted in Analysis, September 2013 | No Comments »