Growing Solidarity in Weelaunee
The radical community being built and defended at the Weelaunee forest occupation is opening up new worlds. #StopCopCity is a lesson in solidarity as risk and responsibility.
Environmental Justice
Why We Must Stop Cop City
Forest protectors in Atlanta are resisting the construction of “cop city” and the centuries of colonial violence it represents. In their struggle, all of our futures hang in the balance.
How the Southeast Side Fought Environmental Racism—and Won
A major polluter was dead set on opening a metal shredding facility in the middle of a working class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southeast Side. It looked like a done deal until community resistance forced the city to prioritize people over profit.
Ending the Curse of Colonialism
A new book by Amitav Ghosh explores the beauty, terror, and agency of non-human entities. Sustaining and rebuilding these relationships will be necessary to resist colonialist omnicide.
Chicago Rallies to Stop Line 3
Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline extension is bringing disaster to our environment. The fight to stop it has to take place on multiple fronts, from Minnesota to the streets of Chicago.
We Must Stop Line 3
Behind the climate chaos eclipsing our future is a corporation and their disastrous pipeline project. Stopping Line 3 must become the immediate focal point of all our struggles for a different, better world.
Better than Daley: Hired Truck Kingpin Thrives under Lightfoot
Corporate polluters continue to make millions from Chicago city government contracts.
Did Chicago Stop Enforcing Environmental Regulations?
The City of Chicago has failed to keep people safe from toxic polluters during the pandemic.
Powerless in Texas
Capitalist competition and greed lie at the heart of the power outages causing desperation across the state.
Hunger Strikers Fight for All Chicagoans
Seven days ago a group of activists started a hunger strike to fight to stop the city from allowing a toxic General Iron metal shredder from being built on Chicago’s Southeast Side.
We Are Not the City’s Garbage Can
Community organizers stand up to a toxic polluter and city officials who continue to practice environmental racism on Chicago’s Southeast side.
The Struggle for Clean Air in Chicago’s Southwest Neighborhoods
The recent demolition of a smokestack in Little Village has exposed vast disparities in city environmental priorities. The demolition is only the latest explosion in a long history of environmental racism and private-sector handouts in Chicago.
George Cardenas is Full of Hot Air
Alderman George Cardenas introduced a resolution declaring a climate emergency in Chicago. He helped create the emergency in his own ward.