Rebecca Solnit

An open let­ter to Ed­ward Snow­den.

As Google con­tin­ues to build its dig­i­tal em­pire, con­cerns con­tin­ue to be raised over its prac­tices and am­bi­tions.

Vi­o­lence doesn’t have a race, a class, a re­li­gion, or a na­tion­al­i­ty, but it does have a gen­der, writes Sol­nit.

The great en­vi­ron­men­tal bat­tle of our time is about mon­ey, about who ben­e­fits from cli­mate de­struc­tion and who los­es.

Hur­ri­cane Sandy did what no ac­tivist could have done ad­e­quate­ly: Put cli­mate change back on the agen­da.

We should call it how it is and no longer hide be­hind the dou­ble­s­peak that per­me­ates through­out Amer­i­ca.

The Oc­cu­py move­ment has tak­en the de­vel­op­ment of civ­il so­ci­ety into a pre­vi­ous­ly unimag­in­able di­rec­tion.