December 17th, 2018 By Kerri Kennedy Guest writer for Wake Up World Mary and Joseph fled their country to keep their child alive. We should embrace families making the same difficult choice...
Category - Activism
Courage Is Contagious
December 13th, 2018 By Frances Moore Lappé Guest writer for Wake Up World Civil courage is the capacity to do what serves the common good, even if one must stand alone. No matter how many times...
Curiosity: The Warrior of Truth
August 29th, 2018 By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World Unbeknownst to a large majority of the public, there’s an ongoing battle happening right now for the minds of the masses between...
Against Forgetting – Things Were Not Always This Way
August 10th, 2018 By Derrick Jensen B.Sc / Deep Green Resistance Last night a host of nonhuman neighbors paid me a visit. First, two gray foxes sauntered up, including an older female...
Why I Got Arrested (And Why You Should Too)
By Saurav Sarkar Guest writer for Wake Up World With 43 percent of Americans in or near poverty, most of us know there’s something deeply wrong with our democracy. Will we stand up for it...
Making Intolerance Intolerable – It’s Time for America to Face Its Shadow Around Racism
4th June, 2018 By Gary Stamper, D.S.P.S. Guest writer for Wake Up World Yes, I know… The title of this article is a paradox. But since I am capable of holding multiple perspectives at the...
The Moral Revolution America Needs
May 28th, 2018 By Jessicah Pierre Guest writer for Wake Up World Poor people of all races are shifting the national conversation on poverty and race from “right vs. left” to...
Is the World a Better Place Because You Were Born?
May 25th, 2018 By Derrick Jensen B.Sc / Deep Green Resistance I was asked to speak about the state of the planet, and to do it in under five minutes. I can do it in three. The world is...
Defenders of Open Internet Deliver ‘Historic Win’ as Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality
May 18th, 2018 By Jake Johnson Via Common Dreams “Politicians see the light when they feel the heat! This victory was the result of the energy activists across the country brought...
It’s Now or Never – The Fight for Freedom
March 17th, 2018 By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World Why is today’s society the way it is? People will often argue that society has always been like this, and that...
Walking Righteous in a Land of Deception
March 10th 2018 By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke...
We Need Radical Imagination
January 30th, 2018 By Sarah van Gelder Imagination, as Hawaiian Native rights advocate Poka Laenui describes it, is more than an antidote to hopelessness. It is a source of power. There are many...
