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Residents lose trust in local government over plan to drain Lower Shaker Lake
Lower Shaker Lake. (Photo by Raechel Anne Jolie, used with permission.) This past Mother’s Day, two mother wood ducks were paddling around on Lower Shaker Lake, one with five recently hatched chicks, the other with nine. A giant snapping turtle was warming its shell in the sun, and half a dozen midland painted turtles were up on a log doing the same. A kingfisher and a green heron flew for cover, startled by a passerby, and an osprey circled and then dove, plucking a large fish out of the water.
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Op-Ed: Sewer District Pushes Ahead With Plan to Drain Lower Shaker Lake
The weather is still cool as April nears its end, but the battle for Lower Shaker Lake is heating up. Residents of Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights packed city council meetings in their respective cities on April 6 and February 9, demanding their representatives find a way to save the lake. Meanwhile, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) is pushing ahead with plans to drain it.
How the far-right is targeting educators and marginalized communities
Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. After receiving death threats and having his home address published on X in Oct. 2025, Rutgers University history professor Mark Bray knew it was time to get his family out of the country.
COP30 Isn't a Failure - It's a Farce
Why these climate summits can’t solve the crisis—and why we should support Indigenous land struggles instead. As the COP30 climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation.
COP30 Isn't A Failure, It's A Farce
Above photo: Indigenous protesters march outside the COP30 climate conference in Belém do Pará, Brazil on Nov. 17. Peter Gelderloos. Belem, Brazil — As theCOP30climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation.
The Real Models for Sustainability in Brazil Are to Be Found Outside COP30
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. A crowd of protesters — largely Indigenous Amazonian people — marched into a restricted area of the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this month in Belém, Brazil, declaring that their forests are not for sale. “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers,” one Tupinamba community leader proclaimed.
COP30 Isn't a Failure - It's a Farce
Viewpoint Dispatch Climate Peter Gelderloos November 21, 2025 BELÉM, BRAZIL — As the COP30 climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation.
Colonialism and extractivism catch up with the Chesapeake Bay
The rusty service station sits at the end of the road in Reedville, on Virginia’s Northern Neck. In the distance lies Ingram Bay, and beyond that, the Chesapeake. A local sits in a chair in the shade of the station, waiting for a powerboat to motor up for a bag of ice or a bag of chum. The customers might be sport fishermen or amateurs with recently purchased vacation homes on the shoreline of the Potomac, the Wicomico, or the Rappahannock. Either way, they’re newcomers.
Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech
“It’s a chilling feeling,” Tariq explains to me. “Here at Yale, immigration authorities have revoked at least four students’ visas so far.” Tariq Khan is an interdisciplinary historian and lecturer at Yale University. “A lot of students are scared,” he explains. “I have international students in my classes. They’re really worried that their visas might be revoked. The Trump administration’s strategy has been to create uncertainty and fear.
Betrayed By Green Capitalism, We Can Build A Livable Future
Above photo: Members of the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, in Portuguese, or MST) in Brazil participate in a tree planting. Mykesio Max / Courtesy of MST. The mainstream climate framework is utterly failing to solve the climate crisis. What could a real solution look like? In one way of measuring it, the mainstream framework to address the climate crisis has been a huge success.
Betrayed by Green Capitalism, Here’s How We Can Build a Livable Future
In one way of measuring it, the mainstream framework to address the climate crisis has been a huge success. Promoting green energy, electric vehicles, conservation zones, carbon credits, carbon capture, and other new technologies has made billions of dollars for companies like Tesla, Google, NextEra Energy, British Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, Tongwei Solar, McKinsey & Company, and BlackRock.
How would anarchist societies protect themselves?
Last year, I asked , author of , to explain anarchism to me. We spent the past year writing back and forth and are now publishing our letters as a series called “Letters to an Anarchist.” You can catch up here: Part one by Part two by This is part three 👇🏻 Dear Peter, Thank you so much for this detailed response.
If Our Movements Never Forgot
If our movements never forgot, we would have had a global revolution already. Not the sort of revolution where those in charge just design a new kind of prison, and not the sort where a party replaces the old aristocrats. We would have had a couple of those, and then we would have learned. If our movements never forgot, we would value healers, gardeners, and storytellers at least as much as fighters.
Dams, Forest Fires and the Hidden Commons - Part I: Social Control and the Ecological Crisis in Catalunya
by Peter Gelderloos We’re saturated by a hegemonic assumption: green energy megaprojects are our only hope for the future. But on these mountain paths, perched above the sprawling cities of a runaway urbanism and the massive hydroelectric dams built by the fascist regime, futuristic shepherds follow in the footsteps of anarchist guerrillas, illuminating a completely different way to shape the world we depend on for our survival.
Two Years Into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher Than Ever
Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken. By Peter Gelderloos, In These Times August 16 marked the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), legislation that has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into green energy and electric vehicles. While the Act made unprecedented investments in renewable energy, it also faced criticism for being too little, too late and for compromising on fossil fuel extraction.
Two Years And $300 Billion Into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher
Above photo: Getty Images. Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken. August 16 marked the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), legislation that has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into green energy and electric vehicles. While the Act made unprecedented investments in renewable energy, it also faced criticism for being too little, too late and for compromising on fossil fuel extraction.
Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever
Viewpoint Climate Rural America What if the entire international framework around climate change is fatally flawed? Getty Images Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken. August 16 marked the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), legislation that has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into green energy and electric vehicles.
A World Without Police
In two previous essay, I discussed the role of the Left in protecting the police through cautious reformism, and the effectiveness of a pacified, falsified—in a word disarmed—history of the Civil Rights movement to prevent us from learning from previous struggles and achieving a meaningful change in society. The police are a racist, authoritarian institution that exists to protect the powerful in an unequal system.
Israel is Committing Genocide
Filed under: Editorials, Featured, The State, War Anarchist author and organizer Peter Gelderloos examines the ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupied Palestine.
‘The poisons are already in here with us:’ framing for ecological revolutions from below
Embodiment against the biopolitical, gaze of the blueprint So there are very big questions wrapped up in all of this – obviously. We need to be thinking from a global perspective, obviously. That [thinking] in itself though often leads us towards certain assumptions that sabotage the work that we need to be doing. Let’s take the question of food, right?
A long time ago in a revolution far, far away
This week’s newsletter is a hard pivot to pop cultural analysis, away from the more personal and existential themes of the past weeks, or the analysis of global issues in earlier installments. I’m going to keep exploring this whole range, so I hope y’all come along for the ride and no one gets dizzy. If you appreciate what I’m doing here, please share it with friends. Finally, for the love of all that is holy, if you have not watched Andor, do not read this installment.
Ecosystems of Revolt
As the struggle to defend the Atlanta forest against the construction of a new police training facility stages its fourth week of action, we are publishing an excerpt from Peter Gelderloos’s recent book, The Solutions are Already Here: Tactics for Ecological Revolution from Below, recently published with Pluto Press.
Peter Gelderloos - Debunking the myths around nonviolent resistance
188 views For decades, police and prison abolitionists have repeated the same argument: police and prisons do not prevent violence, healthy communities do. Yet, it was not until the mass uprisings in hundreds of cities across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd when, suddenly, abolitionist ideas were propelled to the forefront of the American imagination. A counterhegemonic and politically radical viewpoint became perplexingly commonsensical overnight.
Sustainability Archives - The Land
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An Anarchist Solution to Global Warming
If the Green Capitalist response to climate change will only add more fuel to the fire, and if government at a global scale is incapable of solving the problem, as I argue in previous articles [1] [2], how would anarchists suggest we reorganize society in order to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to survive an already changed world?
The Rebels of Sodom
Coming from a rising voice in Israel’s left-wing diaspora, The Sodomites follows a gang of rogues in open rebellion against a settler state that crushes bodies, steals water, destroys communities, and cuts down ancient olive trees.
The Reaction This Time: Understanding Reaction in a Global, Historical Perspective
Sep 5, 20 Filed under: Analysis, Featured, Repression, The State A historic look a waves of reaction to periods of revolt and upheaval and how this relates to our own current situation. by Peter Gelderloos To speak of reaction, I want first to distinguish it from counterinsurgency. Readers who are less interested in a condensed theory of counterinsurgency and want to read about the patterns of reaction leading up to the present moment should skip to the second section.
Teachers inspire revolt against austerity in Jordan
All photos courtesy of Sherbel Dissi. An escalating political dispute between the austerity-minded Jordanian government and increasingly precarious working and middle classes reached a fever pitch on July 25, when police raided the offices of the powerful Jordanian Teachers’ Syndicate (JTS) and arrested its leaders. State authorities then quickly announced the teachers’ union would be outlawed for a period of two years, and any remaining JTS matters would be handled by a governmental body.
Debunking the myths around nonviolent resistance
For decades, police and prison abolitionists have repeated the same argument: police and prisons do not prevent violence, healthy communities do. Yet, it was not until the mass uprisings in hundreds of cities across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd when, suddenly, abolitionist ideas were propelled to the forefront of the American imagination. A counterhegemonic and politically radical viewpoint became perplexingly commonsensical overnight.
ROAR Roundtable: A feminist response to the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated nearly every kind of social injustice. In the Global North, it has disproportionately killed poor people, Indigenous people and people of color. Working-class women, and especially women of color, are not only more at risk of contracting COVID-19 and dying from it, they are also over-represented in essential care work roles including nursing, elderly care, childcare, food service and domestic labor.
Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis
The uprising that has spread across the United States since the police murder of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis has, like any rebellious movement, met with police strategies for counterinsurgency. It is well documented how modern police forces systematically use counterinsurgency strategies against their own populations.
Survival as resistance in occupied Kashmir
Is this the start of settler-colonialism in Kashmir? Are we the final generation that will see Kashmir in its current form? Is this the start of our Nakba? These are the questions I write down in my journal on August 5, 2019, soon after India’s Home Minister stripped Kashmir of its nominal administrative autonomy and made it possible for non-Kashmiris to buy property in the region.
International solidarity when things are not black and white
As 2020 is off to a rebellious start, a wave of struggles with growing intensity continues to sweep across the globe, from Chile to Hong Kong. People are rising up against government repression and austerity measures, or trying to defend themselves from right-wing coups.
What went wrong for the municipalists in Spain?
On May 26, citizens across Spain went to the polls to vote in municipal and European elections. The results were widely seen as a setback to the municipalist wave that swept Spain’s major cities four years prior. Carlos Delclós published one explanation, focusing on the gap between their hype and their policies and how the Catalan independence movement has upset the landscape.
In Defense of Leaderless Revolutions
Barcelona. Cihan Tugal (“The End of the “Leaderless” Revolution” July 10, 2013) effectively picks apart the populist and premature claims of a successful revolution in Egypt. Yet he goes further to use the evident flaws in the leaderless revolutions that have been a hallmark of the early 21st century to discredit the very concept of leaderless revolution.
Anarchy Works
No more talk about the old days, it’s time for something great. I want you to get out and make it work... Thom Yorke Dedicated to the wonderful people of RuinAmalia, La Revoltosa, and the Kyiv infoshop, for making anarchy work. Although this book started out as an individual project, in the end a great many people, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous, helped make it possible through proofreading, fact-checking, recommending sources, editing, and more.
Decades in Prison for Protesting Trump?
A Year and a Half Later, the J20 Repression Continues Right now, four people are on trial accused of multiple felonies related to protesting at the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017. They are part of a group of 59 accused who face up to sixty years in prison if convicted. Some 230 people were arrested on January 20 (or J20), 2017, when the police kettled an anarchist and antifascist protest, surrounding a city block and arresting everyone they could get their hands on.
Spanish Media Side With Fascist
Former Political Prisoner Arrested for “Hate Crime” Against Fascist On December 12, headlines in Spain trumpeted the death of a 55 year-old man, murdered simply for wearing suspenders with the Spanish flag on them. The culprit was identified as Rodrigo Lanza, a participant in “anti-system” movements who had already served time in prison for leaving a cop paralyzed during a 2006 scuffle.
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Democracy
In the escalating crisis surrounding Catalunya’s October 1st independence referendum, both sides are legitimizing their actions through exclusive claims to democracy, insinuating or explicitly stating that they are democratic whereas their adversaries are anti-democratic.
They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us
'Maintaining and sharing revolutionary love, we strengthen intergenerational memories of creative resistance. Despite the beatings and burnings meted out by states, schools, corporations, police, prisons and militaries, our communities continue to weave overlapping concentric circles of care and resistance.
The Solutions are Already Here
Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below As the climate crisis worsens, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justice Overview Author Biography Endorsements Contents Details Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.
ROAR Magazine
Bernie Sanders’ campaign to be the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2016 US presidential election presents the far left in the United States with some hard questions. For those convinced that the electoral process is a vehicle through which the capitalist class enlists the rest of us in consenting to our own subjection, Sanders’ campaign makes us ask why this time might be different.
The Failure of Nonviolence
This book is dedicated to Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, & all those who support them. When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do; I took my gun and vanished. [...] “Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing, through the graves the wind is blowing, freedom soon will come; then we’ll come from the shadows. —Leonard Cohen, “The Partisan” Introduction: Nonviolence has lost the debate Nonviolence has lost the debate.
How Nonviolence Protects the State
And they say that the beauty’s in the streets but when I look around it seems more like defeat —Defiance Ohio * * * * * This book is dedicated to Sue Daniels (1960–2004), a brilliant ecologist, bold feminist, passionate anarchist, and beautiful and caring human being who nurtured and challenged everyone around her. Your bravery and wisdom continue to inspire me, and in that way your spirit remains indomitable...
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