Culture • Environment • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

David Marchese — The New York Times (Gift)

The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

Environment • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Science

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance

Via AP — Independent

Buddhist monks and their ‘peace dog’ are walking across the US and captivating the nation along the way

While Buddhism has branched into a number of sects over the centuries, its rich tradition of peace activism continues

Exile • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Kai Proschan — TransLash (January 22, 2025)

Trans Relocation Guide: Finding Trans Asylum and Safe Havens

In light of growing hostility and anti-trans legislation across the U.S., many transgender people are seeking safe havens —whether by relocating to more trans-friendly areas within the U.S. or by moving abroad.

Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity

Resistance Media

Personal Resilience is Resistance

Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Personal Resilience • Resistance

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

On Not Surrendering in Advance Or At Any Point Thereafter

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context.

Democracy • Health • Personal Resilience • Resistance

Lori Corbet Mann — Your Time Starts Now

Why Anchored Hope is Not The Thing With Feathers

Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

Democracy • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Nonviolence Radio — https://wagingnonviolence.org/

When toxic polarization becomes a civil war

International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's too late.

Democracy • Fascism • Personal Resilience • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Laurie Winer — Thinking About

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe

Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should know where that leads. And, while MAGA may ignore the mountains of books written on fascism, the rest of us are not in the dark about what comes next.

Personal Resilience • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

SCOT NAKAGAWA — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Mutual Aid

Mutual aid is a form of collective care in which communities come together to share resources, provide for one another’s needs, and build systems of support independent of the state or corporate entities.

Democracy • Personal Resilience • Safety • Threat Management

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

Taking Heart

A few people I know are coping by remaining in denial. They continue to normalize what’s happening in the familiar terms of Republican versus Democrat, right versus left, conservative versus liberal or progressive.

Democracy • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Threat Management

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup

Great uprisings are often both carefully prepared for and essentially unpredictable. It's as if the fuel has been gathered for a bonfire but a lightning strike suddenly ignites it.

Democracy • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Gabor Mate — The Guardian

We Each Have a Nazi in Us

We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism

Human Rights • Journalism • Personal Resilience • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management

Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida — Article 19

Equally Safe

What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

Democracy • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Robert Gass — robertgass.com

What is Transformation?

Smart strategic thinking and technical skills are no guarantee of emotional maturity and balance.

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