Experiments with truth: 9/17/10

    • Hundreds of people in Pittsburgh and Binghmaton protested plans of gas drilling in Pennsylvania and New York this week.
    • On Wednesday a group of Taiwanese writers, musicians and artists protested a controversial plan by Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co to build oil refineries on ecologically sensitive wetlands along the coast of Dacheng Township.
    • Activists from the Campaign Against Climate Change in England came to the Whitehall office of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on Wednesday to protest government subsidies for agrofuel production, which harms the environment, displaces indigenous peoples and leads to food shortages.

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    The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers.

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    How to combat fear at the polls this November

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    As we approach a midterm election shadowed by threats of violence, there are freely available trainings for people who want to protect the vote.

    • Review

    Being a dissident is a capacity, not a calling

    September 17, 2026

    Gal Beckerman’s new book “How to Be a Dissident” finds that dissidence isn’t a personality type. It’s a human capacity that can be cultivated.