Stories by Rebecca Solnit

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Posted on: Sep 28, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Rights are like muscles, they disappear if you don't use them.

Posted on: Aug 10, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Nevada has a gold rush, a water war, vast military operations, just for starters, and all of them are ecological bad news.

Posted on: Jul 27, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Must we be a primary-color nation? Wouldn't a little lilac make us feel better about terror alerts? Perhaps some aubergine-chartreuse?

Posted on: Jun 14, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Relearning the past -- specifically the genocidal history of the Americas -- has spurred a surge of indigenous power that has transformed the face of politics in many Latin American states.

Posted on: Mar 11, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Anti-immigration racists are hiding behind a mask of concern for the environment.

Posted on: Nov 25, 2003, Source: TomDispatch.com

What went down in Miami was a dramatic example of how hallowed American rights are being dismantled in the name of the war on terrorism.

Posted on: Jul 20, 2003, Source: OrionOnline.org

We consumers live in silence. What cheers me are the ways people are learning to read the silent histories of objects and choosing the objects that still sing.

Posted on: May 19, 2003, Source: OrionOnline.org

While the antiwar movement didn't prevent Bush's war on Iraq, it made tremendous headway in globalizing resistance to future wars.

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