- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ether
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
- Great Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I walk wherever my errands take me.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020