Wen Stephenson has been a frequent contributor to The Nation since 2013. A veteran journalist, essayist, and activist, he is the author of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other (2015), about the pivotal early years of the climate justice movement. More of his writing can be found at wenstephenson.com
A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.
Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.
The student-led protest was a dramatic demonstration of the youth climate movement’s growing resolve—and its sense of solidarity.
There’s a growing effort to merge economic-justice and climate activism. Call it climate democracy.
Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta, and Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas, speak out on struggles of frontline communities fighting tar sands.
What would our national conversation on climate change sound like if this kind of honesty broke through with any regularity?
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.