I’m always down for disrupting the system and creating a spectacle, but I’m unclear how this most recent wave of tactics in the UK is going to move the needle on climate action. Watching Climate Twitter discuss this, I’m probably in the minority with my opinion. But, the hurling of…

“The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin A nuclear era, but I have no fear ’Cause London is drowning, I live by the river” — London’s Calling, The Clash Front man of The Clash, Joe Strummer, would have been 70…

“Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.” -David Brower Last week, climate organizers in Washington D.C. called for a disruption of the 87th annual congressional baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. …

he·​ge·​mo·​ny | 1.) preponderant influence or authority over others; 2.) the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group Recently, it was the 85th anniversary of Italian Marxist philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci’s death in fascist Italy. Starting from humble beginnings on Sardinia, Gramsci went from student…

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” -William Gibson Hiding out in the Good Friday press dump, the Biden administration announced it was opening up more public land to oil and gas drilling. The New York…

“The long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we’re going, but where we want to go.” -Utah Phillips (1935–2008) Politics…

This past Monday, five courageous people occupied the roof of a Raytheon facility in Cambridge, MA in protest of the company’s war profiteering in Ukraine, the Middle East and other parts of the world. The group, Resist and Abolish the Military Industrial Complex, set off smoke devices and locked to…

This week is the 22nd anniversary of the direct action shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. In late 1999, while trade ministers, corporate lobbyists and a certain Arkansas born president were meeting to create a new era for the global corporate economy. Outside the meetings, tens…

“There is new crop of forest defense climate activists feeling a new sense of urgency that the traditional environmental advocacy isn’t doing it…” — Daniel with Cascadia Forest Defenders The Pacific Northwest has a long history of organizing and direct action around logging and timber industries. From the Wobblies trying…