Wen Stephenson
Contributing Writer
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Climate ChangeOctober 8, 2015
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement
The new American radicals know that it’s time to fight like there’s nothing left to lose but our humanity.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeSeptember 9, 2015
How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology
And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeApril 22, 2015
Is the Carbon-Divestment Movement Reaching a Tipping Point?
Interviews with Harvard professors Naomi Oreskes and James Anderson about universities’ moral imperative to join the fight against fossil fuel.
Wen Stephenson
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Nation HistoryMarch 23, 2015
The Gospel According to Wendell Berry
To destroy a forest is an act of greater seriousness than we have yet grasped. But to destroy the earth itself is to destroy the possibility of recovery.
Wendell Berry and Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeOctober 24, 2014
I’m Banned From Harvard. Here’s Why I’m Going Back.
For protesting Harvard’s refusal to divest from fossil fuels, campus police have told me I will be arrested if I return to the university—which is exactly what I plan to do on Sunday.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeSeptember 24, 2014
These Frontline Communities Know What Climate Justice Would Mean—and They’re Not Seeing It at the UN
Changing the path corporations and the 1 percent have set for our planet is going to take more than a march. It’s going to take a struggle.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeSeptember 8, 2014
Charges Were Just Dropped Against These Climate Activists in the Most Stunning Way
In a remarkable turn of events, a Massachusetts DA drops charges against climate activists—and then defends them.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeJune 3, 2014
Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice
If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeApril 22, 2014
Let This Earth Day Be The Last
“Environmentalism” has failed. The planet now needs a movement far more radical.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeApril 10, 2014
Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust
A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.
Wen Stephenson