Heading Upstream

Heading Upstream

A long time ago, an activist told me a story, which I will convey to you now in the mostly gender-neutral terms with which I try to approach our gender-complex world. (This is otherwise not really about gender at all, any more than everything is, in a patriarchy, but...
Voting Rights Collage #1: Get Ready to Fight

Voting Rights Collage #1: Get Ready to Fight

In order to win a Green New Deal, defund police, transform our economy and save our nation, we need to get Tr*mp out of office. We need to elect progressives to the House and Senate, as well as in state and local elections. AND we need strong movements to hold those...
The Archeology of Waste

The Archeology of Waste

Over five thousand years ago, from about 3500 BCE to about 1700 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization rooted in the Indus river valley spread out over 280,000 square miles, nearly the size of California and Nevada put together. This civilization covered parts of...
The Discipline of Hope

The Discipline of Hope

In an interview, I heard Ira Glass say, every episode of This American Life has a particular theme, but in fact, every episode has the same theme: I thought this would happen, and instead this happened. I will talk about this tomorrow evening at a free class Ellen...