Image by Joel Rosenburg
The earth has inscribed itself on every form of life, in a diversity of genes and cultures – expressions of survival – shaped over countless generations. Tragically, the record numbers of people being forcibly displaced from familiar lands means that both biological and cultural diversity are increasingly being lost...
Silvia Federici in her Brooklyn apartment. Photo courtesy of the authors.
"Now I am here on this earth and I know of them who died in a dungeon, who died burnt alive, and I want to be their voice. I want to do whatever I can to tell their story..."
Fr. Berrigan speaking in 1966 at the first Meal of Reconciliation at St. Mark’s on the Bowery in Manhattan. Photo by Jim Forest.
Your Excellency:
I am addressing you in regard to Mr. John Harris, condemned to death last November for sabotage activities in which he had engaged in protest against government racial policies in your country...
Women from the feminist organization The Center for Women’s Studies -- Honduras (pictured above) have been a significant force in the post-coup resistance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Frank’s is ultimately a hopeful story, however, for the coup unleashed a broad nonviolent resistance that even the bullets and clubs of the security forces have been unable to contain...
Jean Fouquet, from The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful Against the Demons, cropped. Image Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Maybe it’s a sign,” I thought, as Notre Dame burned. I question whether the Roman Catholic Church, my church, should associate itself with such things while there are people without a safe place to call home...
Catholic Workers occupying the Enbridge pipe yard storage facility, April 2018; Image courtesy of fournecessity.org
A friend of the author posts pictures of her garden to social media. The chili plants the gardener grows in the US remind her of her father living in a refugee camp. Image courtesy of the author.
In the context of this large-scale dispossession and violent ruptures of home and community, I ask: how do Karen forced migrants hold on to aspects of identity and collective memory through engagements with food and plants?
The author (right) performing a wedding with other clergy members in Tijuana. Photo courtesy of the author.
“I am afraid for my life and I want to seek asylum,” said one of the boys, the group-appointed leader...
Clare Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Photo courtesy of the author.
If we cannot look around us and see, or remember, how the land has always taken care of us, then what duty do we feel to protect it?
Sister Rhonda Miska (left) and Sister Alison McCrary (right) are part of a new generation of Catholic Sisters devoting their lives to social justice. Left photo courtesy of Jacky Romo, right photo courtesy of the author.
Children look at a memorial for the victims of atrocities carried out by the Guatemalan Army in and around the village of Rio Negro. Photo courtesy of Renata Avila, Flickr.
One rarely reads in the New York Times’ news columns or editorials about the United States’ singular role in making the Northern Triangle the most violent place on earth, notably in its sponsorship of highly lethal counterinsurgency efforts during the 1980s...
Exxon's offshore oil platform “Troll,” the world's largest freestanding concrete structure (pictured above), was specially designed to withstand extreme weather. At the time of its construction, Exxon was funnelling millions of dollars into campaigns to deny global warming. Image courtesy of creative commons.
These pseudo-scientific industry front groups hired a "tiny group of dissenting scientists" who despite little to no legitimate connection to climate change research were invited to speak at congressional hearings and were subsequently quoted in nearly all mass media coverage of global warming for over a decade...