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Wen Stephenson is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the author of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice (Beacon Press, 2015). A former editor at The Atlantic and The Boston Globe, he has written about politics and culture for many publications, including Slate, The New York Times, Grist, The Boston Phoenix, The Baffler, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
At the UN climate conference in Warsaw, a youth-led fast in solidarity with the Philippines is spreading around the world.
Activists in Texas are connecting the fight against the Keystone pipeline with the struggle for environmental justice.
A response to Harvard President Drew Faust by climate activist Tim DeChristopher, now studying at Harvard Divinity School, on fossil-fuel divestment.
Harvard tells students and alumni that it will only consider divestment in "extraordinarily rare circumstances." Well, let's see...
A reaction to Chris Hayes's MSNBC documentary on climate change, The Politics of Power.
At Sunday’s march on the Brayton Point coal plant in Massachusetts, I was reminded of what it takes for a movement to win.
What does a concept like “climate justice” mean in communities already suffering the toxic impact of fossil fuels? An interview with Houston native and environmental-justice activist Bryan Parras of TEJAS.
Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara are reminiscent of the human-centered, Quaker-inspired anti-nuke founders of Greenpeace.
In a lobster boat, two climate activists put themselves in the path of a Massachusetts coal tanker, demanding the immediate closure of the largest coal plant in the Northeast.
What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?