By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World For some time now, we’ve been hearing about the important role women have in curbing environmental destruction. After all, the...
Category - Activism
The Surprising Power of Poetry to Change Lives and Transform the World
September 1st, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Winner of the TS Eliot award, John Burnside doesn’t think poetry is a frivolous act, another romantic —...
Here’s What We Can Do to Reduce Hate in the World Around Us
By Audrey Throne Guest writer for Wake Up World Hate crime incidents abound in America today, and it is not only small minorities or the marginalized that are affected. In the small village of...
How The Rise of People-Focused Economic Models are Changing the Face of America — and the World
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “The top 400 people own more wealth than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.” ~ Gar...
Citizens United is Destroying Our Democracy — Here’s How to Defeat It
April 3rd, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the...
New Zealand’s Whanganui River Granted Legal Personhood in Landmark Environmental Ruling
March 29th, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World With the massive outpouring of support for the protests at Standing Rock, and the significant defunding of the...
The False Majority: The Lie We Tell Ourselves About America
By Ryan Cristián Guest writer for Wake Up World It has been a long time since public opinion has had anything to do with the direction of this country, and the sad fact is that the majority...
Medical Error is Still the #3 Cause of Death in the U.S. – Are We Really Okay With This?
By Lissa Rankin, MD Guest writer for Wake Up World When the British Medical Journal reported in May of 2016 that preventable medical error is the #3 cause of death in the United States, behind...
A New Kind of Revolution
March 2nd, 2017 By Will Stanton Guest writer for Wake Up World Take a step back for a minute and look at the state humanity is in… 80% of the world’s population live below the poverty...
Lessons from George Orwell’s ‘1984’
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure...
The Fight at Standing Rock Continues — and U.S. Veterans are Ready to Mobilize
February 6th, 2017 By Carey Wedler In early December, many Americans celebrated the Army Corps of Engineers decision to withhold a final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a project...
Video: Police Raid Charity, Arrest 7 Volunteers for Feeding the Homeless
18th January, 2017 By Matt Agorist When feeding willing hungry people becomes illegal, that is a telling sign of a bureaucratic police state. And, in the ostensible Land of the...