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Donald Trump Can’t Hide From the Resistance
The USS Intrepid is huge. It’s a 27,000-ton, 820-foot, 2,600-person-capacity giant of an aircraft carrier permanently anchored in the Hudson River. But even the Intrepid couldn’t shield Donald Trump from…
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Hungary, Democracy, and the Freedom I Stand For
In the winter of 2017, I received a call from a colleague about a small community in the Hungarian countryside, far from the busy streets of Budapest, that needed help.…
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Powering the Resistance, One Bold Action at a Time
There is no better time to act for our climate and communities than right now. Our democracy is under attack. In the coming hours, days, months, and years, we will…
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My Time at Standing Rock
By Harmony Lambert (Chumash Nation) Three weeks ago, I returned from a three-week stint at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in Standing Rock. While there, I represented Greenpeace in the most…
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Lessons for My U.S. Allies in Trump’s America, From a Brexit Survivor
After Brexit, the U.K. Left had a food fight. When the last egg had been thrown in their civil war, the combatants looked up and saw they’d lost their mandate…
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Porter Ranch Residents to Fossil Fuel Industry: Shut It ALL Down
This past Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the worst natural gas blowout in American history, the Porter Ranch gas leak. When I learned last year of the leak…
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‘These Are Our Prayers in Action’ — A Look at Life in the #NoDAPL Resistance Camps
As I turn off the two-lane highway that courses through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation into Oceti Sakowin Camp (technically an overflow camp from the original Camp of the Sacred…
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How Your Generosity Is Helping #NoDAPL Camps Keep Up the Resistance
Right now, the eyes of the nation are trained squarely on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native-led, peaceful resistance to its construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry…
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Mountain West Rising: Two Days of Protest in Colorado Show the Courage of a Growing Movement
Last week, I was part of something incredible. Twice, I stood with hundreds of fellow Coloradans to demand our lawmakers stop giving away our communities and public lands to the…
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The Sound of Democracy Awakening
As I watched the action unfold during the climax of Democracy Awakening last Monday — when hundreds of activists risked arrest sitting in at the steps of the Capitol building…