A Better Brand of Pessimism

08/15/22 • 16 min

Last month, Stan discussed how election official, racial-justice and climate activists, and others are becoming targets of right-wing political violence—and responding with nonviolence. In this episode, he speaks with some climate writers and activists who urge that movements respond to the multiple existential threats that society now faces by uniting across issues to confront all of them, including climate, together—no matter how long the odds against us.
https://citylights.com/blog/
https://landinstitute.org/
Follow this link to view the artwork accompanying this series, by Priti Gulati Cox:
https://pritigcox.wordpress.com/

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They'll Show Up Armed

Four months into the “In Real Time” project, I see our nation’s condition taking a
dramatic turn for the worse. Rising threats of election-year corruption and violence, devastating Supreme Court decisions on climate, guns, and abortion have many of us reeling. Movements for human rights, democracy, and the environment are pressing on nonetheless.
https://citylights.com/blog/
https://landinstitute.org/
Follow this link to view the artwork accompanying this series, by Priti Gulati Cox:
https://pritigcox.wordpress.com/

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Pipelines to Nowhere

On today’s episode Stan highlights an unlikely alliance of Native tribes, farmers, and environmental groups who have joined forces to oppose construction of 3,000 miles of carbon-dioxide pipelines that would endanger the lands, waters, and people of Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
https://citylights.com/blog/
https://landinstitute.org/
Follow this link to view the artwork accompanying this series, by Priti Gulati Cox:
https://pritigcox.wordpress.com/