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Solnit: Diary
Znet Article, May, 09 2012
Rebecca Solnit
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The alienation and distrust that is everywhere has yet to find an adequate outlet. Perhaps change here will be subtle and slow. But it’s clear that Japan will never be the same
Solnit: Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
Znet Article, May, 02 2012
Rebecca Solnit
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Sending debt peonage, poverty, and freaky weather into the arena
Solnit: Mad, Passionate Love -- and Violence
Znet Article, February, 22 2012
Rebecca Solnit
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Genuine gains come thanks to relatively modest exercises of popular power
Solnit: Compassion Is Our New Currency
Znet Article, December, 23 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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We have come close to something unprecedented, a beloved community that circles the globe
Solnit: You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring
Znet Article, November, 23 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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The grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream
Solnit: Throwing Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House
Znet Article, November, 12 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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Violence can injure, damage, destroy, kill, but it can’t coerce the will of the people
Solnit: Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
Znet Article, October, 19 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi
Solnit: Hope: The Care and Feeding Of
Znet Article, August, 02 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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We just need to be better at seeing what is already magnificent and heroic
Solnit: Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite
Znet Article, May, 24 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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Who would ever write a fable as obvious, as heavy-handed as the story we’ve just been given?
Solnit: Unpacking for a Disaster
Znet Article, March, 28 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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The first American responses to the triple calamity in Japan were deeply empathetic and then, as news of the Fukushima nuclear complex’s leaking radiation spread, a lot of people began to freak out about their own safety.
Solnit: Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
Znet Article, December, 23 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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After the Macondo well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it was easy enough to see a flaming oil platform, the very sea itself set afire with huge plumes of black smoke rising, and the dark smear of what would become five million barrels of oil begi...
Solnit: Jurassic Ballot
Znet Article, November, 04 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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When corporations ruled the earth...
Solnit: 350 Degrees of Inseparability
Znet Article, April, 26 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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The Good News About the Very Bad News (about Climate Change)
Solnit: When the Media Is the Disaster
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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Covering Haiti
Solnit: Terminator 2009
Znet Article, December, 20 2009
Rebecca Solnit
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Judgment Days in Copenhagen
Solnit: Learning How to Count to 350
Znet Article, November, 27 2009
Rebecca Solnit
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Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989
Solnit: How 9/11 Should Be Remembered
Znet Article, September, 10 2009
Rebecca Solnit
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The Extraordinary Achievements of Ordinary People
Solnit: The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Rebecca Solnit
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The case of the economic crash of Iceland
Solnit: The Grinning Skull
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Rebecca Solnit
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During Hurricane Katrina, a group of white men went on a shooting spree across the river.
Solnit: A Great Day, Nine Years, Three or Four Centuries
Znet Article, November, 08 2008
Rebecca Solnit
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Citizenship is a passionate joy at times, and this is one of those times. You can feel it. Tuesday the world changed.
Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Rebecca Solnit
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The out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men.
Solnit: Revolution of the Snails
Znet Article, January, 15 2008
Rebecca Solnit
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An account of a visit to the Zapatistas.
Solnit: The Growth of Local Power Is a Bright Spot in Seven Bleak Years of Bush
Znet Article, December, 31 2007
Rebecca Solnit
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The centre cannot hold, and that’s the good news in the United States these days. Quietly, doggedly, cities, regions, counties and states have refused to march to the Bush administration’s drum when it comes to climate change, the environment and ...
Solnit: The Secret Library of Hope
Znet Article, December, 18 2007
Rebecca Solnit
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Hope is an orientation, a way of scanning the wall for cracks -- or building ladders -- rather than staring at its obdurate expanse. It's a worldview, but one informed by experience and the knowledge that people have power; that the power people p...
Solnit: Unstable Foundations
Znet Article, March, 16 2007
Rebecca Solnit
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Unstable Foundations
Solnit: The 2006 You Didn't Hear About
Znet Article, January, 02 2007
Rebecca Solnit
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The 2006 You Didn't Hear About
Solnit: The Age of Mammals
Znet Article, December, 18 2006
Rebecca Solnit
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The Age of Mammals
Solnit: Welcome to the Impossible World
Znet Article, May, 14 2006
Rebecca Solnit
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Welcome to the Impossible World
Solnit: The Wal-Mart Biennale
Znet Article, February, 19 2006
Rebecca Solnit
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It isn't that, when Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton purchased Asher B. Durand's 1849 painting Kindred Spirits last year, she got the state of Arkansas to pass legislation specifically to save her taxes -- in this case, about $3 million on a purchase...
Solnit: 2005: Bad Year for Goliath
Znet Article, December, 20 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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To say that it was a bad year for Goliath doesn't mean it was exactly a good one for what George Bailey, in annual holiday It's a Wonderful Life reruns, calls "the little people." U.S. public opinion has almost caught up with the rest of the world...
