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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...
Solnit: Three from Out of the Blue
Znet Article, October, 11 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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"The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected" said my most recent fortune-cookie advisory. Many people presume that the future will look more or less like the present, though that's the one thing we can assume isn't true. If some Cassandra ha...
Solnit: The Great Gray Whale
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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While we were looking at humpbacked whales a few months ago, my companion asked me if I ever thought about how Moby Dick's narrator, Ishmael, survived -- by floating away from the destroyed ship Pequod in his friend Queequeg's coffin. Whales them...
Solnit: Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage
Znet Article, June, 16 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: May 2003. It was the best of moments for the neocons and the Bush administration, the worst of times for most of the rest of us. In an unprecedented period of antiwar activism preceding a war, tens of millions of...
Solnit: Liberation Conspiracies
Znet Article, February, 14 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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A review of: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains, Prophets and ...
Solnit: Sontag and Tsunami
Znet Article, January, 03 2005
Rebecca Solnit
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The news of Susan Sontag's death arrived as a single sentence spoken in the opening moments of a radio news program Tuesday morning, and then the program returned to what had been the main story since the day after Christmas: the tsunami and the d...
Solnit: Hope at Midnight
Znet Article, December, 23 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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Hope at Midnight
Solnit: Jailbirds I Have Loved...
Znet Article, September, 28 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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About a month ago I planned to commit civil disobedience in New York -- there were some Republicans in town, as you may remember -- but circumstances beyond my control put me a few hundred miles further north at the crucial moment, so I did the ne...
Solnit: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch:
Znet Article, August, 10 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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In July, the Feds handed down to Nevada its bitterest defeat and sweetest victory in ages; the former, a termination of thousands of years of Western Shoshone history; the latter, a reprieve from an apocalyptic future as the world's biggest -- and...
Solnit: United Colors of America
Znet Article, July, 27 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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United Colors of America
Solnit: A Dream Three Times the Size of Texas
Znet Article, May, 06 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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The law of unexpected consequences prevails so frequently that perhaps it should not be so unexpected. For example, Laura Bush's attempt early last year to hold a symposium on "Poetry and the American Voice" while her husband was planning to satur...
Solnit: The Siege of the Sierra Club
Znet Article, March, 12 2004
Rebecca Solnit
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The Siege of the Sierra Club
Solnit: Fragments of the Future:
Znet Article, November, 25 2003
Rebecca Solnit
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Fragments of the Future:
Solnit: Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage
Znet Article, May, 19 2003
Rebecca Solnit
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On January 18, 1915, eighteen months into the first world war, the first terrible war in the modern sense -- slaughter by the hundreds of thousands, poison gas, men living and dying in the open graves of trench warfare, tanks, barbed wire, machine...
