News & Activism

We often focus on what patriarchy is doing to us. We don’t focus on what we are doing to patriarchy.

We all need to be involved
in building communities, not focused solely on developing things. — Winona LaDuke

We have an upside-down narrative that seems to allow a few people and institutions to profit from the public spaces we care for.

What communities are capable of doing in a time of democratic crisis and economic rebuilding.

Education about climate change has been largely nonexistent in K–12 schools until recently.

Grant Township in Pennsylvania, a town of 600, was sued three times by an energy company and the state’s department

People emerged from their homes with shocked, confused stares, like deer emerging from forest wildfire.

adapted from onthecommons.org

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A summary of the viewpoints of the seven candidates running for Hennepin County attorney general.

It is really important to see invisible work that is done by women to hold societies together, to hold communities together. It is embarrassing to live in the United States and still have poor representation in Congress, poor representation in our business community.

My view of the media business I love is that we tend to be reactive, writing for a passive audience. But our most engaged readers are NOT passive, and want to get in front of the stories, to change outcomes.