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Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
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“Everyone has a reason that moves us to fight for democracy, independence and freedom," says Elisenda, a mother in Barcelona who joined one of her local Committees to Defend the Referendum (CDR) as Catalonia presses for independence.
You would think three months prison without trial for organizing peaceful protests is something that happens in an authoritarian state, but this reality now faces two Catalan men who were jailed in Spain for sedition last fall while calling for public
Plastic pollution threatens all life. We need to rethink the way we live and challenge corporate power pushing our throw-away business-as-usual model. Like tackling climate change, a world not polluted by plastic is possible.
Phasing out coal for renewables desperately needs to happen in India, which currently emits around 25 percent of China's carbon emissions – but whose economy is growing 7% annually and in a few decades will be the size of China's.
Big Oil knows the game is up, but they still want to manage the process, slow down the green transformation and limit its impact on their profits. It's only slightly incredible to think that oil corporations may now be choosing to put Planet Earth first.
It is a commonly held belief that the U.K. government is collapsing, yet it somehow limps on, despite social, economic, corruption and democratic crises.
Host Fiji drove meaningful progress at COP23, but the annual conference has succeeded within an international negotiation context that moves too slowly – mainly due to large industrial nations reluctant to rapidly transform their energy economies.
Many agree that Germany's continued mining of lignite coal – the dirtiest type there is – undermines its green image. This past week, the Greens in Germany abruptly dropped their commitment to stopping coal and reducing car emissions.
Fiji and other vulnerable island nations have set out the necessary steps to keep global the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees celsius. This includes going further and faster than the historic agreements made in Paris in 2015.
Within the Spanish constitution, the Catalonian referendum was not legal – but this doesn't mean it was illegitimate. Pro-independence parties won a majority in the last Catalan elections, supplying the mandate for an independence vote. So what happens now?
Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
If any of us hope to stop Donald Trump from becoming the 47th president of the United States, it will have to be done from the ballot box, not the courts.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
If any of us hope to stop Donald Trump from becoming the 47th president of the United States, it will have to be done from the ballot box, not the courts.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
If any of us hope to stop Donald Trump from becoming the 47th president of the United States, it will have to be done from the ballot box, not the courts.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.