July 22nd, 2021 By Kara Reynolds Guest Writer for Wake Up World People in the disabled community are among the most marginalized in American society. Few people recognize the countless accommodations...
Category - Activism
The Nuclear Experiment: Year 76
July 16th, 2021 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World It has been 76 years since the first atomic detonation experimentation in New Mexico, July 16, 1945 just prior to the...
Rivers Are Key to Restoring the World’s Biodiversity
June 25th, 2021 By Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Darryl Knudsen and Irikefe V. Dafe Via Deep Green Resistance In October 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet in China to adopt...
Why We Should All Care About Black Maternal Health
June 22nd, 2021 By Kara Reynolds Guest Writer for Wake Up World Whether you’re an expectant mother of color or you’re a passionate racial justice ally, Black maternal healthcare...
Death by 1,000 Cuts: Are Major Insect Losses Imperiling Life on Earth?
By Liz Kimbrough Via Global Research Chances are, the works of the world’s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are insect pollinated. Apples, oranges...
Time to Put an End to the Nuclear Age
September 28th, 2020 By Olivia Alperstein Guest writer for Wake Up World via Other Words 2020 has been hard enough. The last thing the world needs this year is nuclear weapons. On September 26...
The Heroes Are Everywhere – and You May Also Be One
By Estee Horn Guest Writer for Wake Up World “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” – Galileo How many times have you watched abuse and injustice in the news, and felt...
Caring for Our Sacred Earth
September 2nd, 2020 By Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston) Guest Writer for Wake Up World “We have been trying to go into the future as a human community in an exploitative relationship with the...
Starve the Beast, Feed the Light
By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World It is often echoed by the marginalized masses that “the system doesn’t work for the people” and “it only works for...
Images Don’t Always Tell the Story: How Social Media Dumbs Down Critical Thought
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Some years ago, the alternative news media began to be hijacked, and mixed in with political ardency from one side or another...
Dance as Activism – How Dance Can Bond Communities
By Anna Swisher Guest Writer for Wake Up World How can you make a difference? How can you embody systemic change at a local level? How do you not burn out? How can you enjoy your...
Man Camps, Fossil Fuels and Murdered Indigenous Women – The Cultural Genocide Continues
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Across North America, the numbers of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is staggering, and shaming. A 2014 national investigation in Canada...