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Essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit
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Staying with the Trouble (Is Not Necessarily About Geography)
Published: May 20, 2025 15:04
I've always been annoyed by those people who, when they didn't like the outcome of a presidential election, announced they were moving to Canada. Those declarations seemed to be about comfortable people prioritizing remaining comfortable and not wanting to…
"I'm the Problem; It's Me": On the Confession the Mainstream Media Won't Make
Published: May 17, 2025 17:32
An unnamed source says that at an earlier point in time it was thought that a octogenarian might come to need to use a wheelchair at a future date, but the person in question has as of press time not reached that point, but continues to walk and bike, and
Some Rob You with a Six-Gun/ Some With a Fountain Pen: On Civil War By Other Means
Published: May 8, 2025 14:55
Imagine if we were at war with a foreign power that bombed most of the federal buildings in Washington, destroying the records and functions of those departments and killing millions of federal workers – bombs falling on Health and Human Services, on the…
The Art of Arrival
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-art-of-arrival/
Published: May 3, 2025 14:10
I published this in Orion Magazine in 2014, about the environmental activist Jo Anne Garrett of Baker, NV, who would've turned 100 on April 30th. I wanted to pay tribute to her by republishing this (slightly shortened) essay about her. The Las Vegas…
Not Mayday but May Day: Trump Craters, the Public Rises to the Occasion
Published: May 1, 2025 03:46
There's an old saying that March came in like a lion and left like a lamb. April came in a bit sheepishly and is leaving roaring and baring its teeth, and tomorrow is May Day. Not Mayday as the distress signal,. May Day the historic red-green celebration…
We Are Firefighters: A Talk About the Climate and the Trees
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-firefighters-a-talk-about-the-climate-and-the-trees/
Published: April 26, 2025 18:56
This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at last Saturday's benefit concert by the adventurous and world-renowned Kronos Quartet for Oil Change International, a climate group on whose board I've served since 2017. It was at the Oakland studio of…
When Hope and History Rhyme
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/when-hope-and-history-rhyme/
Published: April 18, 2025 15:14
In the summer of 2011, I went to a protest against economic injustice in New York City. I've gone to a lot of demonstrations over the decades, and this one was as forgettable as most of them are--they're good, they contribute, they aren't landmark
Stupid Coup Month Three: Two Plus Two Is Still Four
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stupid-coup-month-three-two-plus-two-is-still-four/
Published: April 13, 2025 17:02
Imagine you were on a ship, and reports kept coming to you that the new captain and his crew had done a series of strange things--jettisoned the anchor, blew some holes in the hull, shredded the sails, thrown some of the old crew overboard. But also…
Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
Published: April 6, 2025 16:05
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would show up in the big cities and the bluest places, but…
People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
Published: April 2, 2025 16:09
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may have done the opposite and before Cory Booker's…
It's Not Them; It's Us: Thoughts on the Show Adolescence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/its-not-them-its-us-thoughts-on-the-show-adolescence/
Published: March 27, 2025 23:49
The new Netflix mini-series Adolescence is not about teenagers so much as it's about how adults perceive and fail to perceive teenagers. They're presented in the first two episodes as an alien life form, leading lives adults fail to see or comprehend.…
Coming Unglued: Week Eight of the Stupid Coup (and the Stalwart Resistance)
Published: March 21, 2025 23:04
Spring is here and so is authoritarianism, and I recommend your serious attention to both. We may be at this resistance business for a while, so take care of yourself so you can keep taking care of human rights, truth, justice, and the natural world. What…