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At Third Act, we fight to save democracy and our planet; at the intersection of these two existential issues are workers and unions.

"Las Playas Son del Pueblo” carries with it a reminder to the government and private interests that our beaches and natural resources are not for sale."

“Earth or Death!”  — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)

The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.

The Greens are a moderate, centrist party, reluctant to pander to any eruption of social conflict and more than cautious in its dealings with big business interests.

Forty-two years ago, North Carolina discovered that a company in the Northeast had dumped tons of polychlorinated biphenyls — PCBs, very cancer-causing carcinogenic substance — along the highways of North Carolina.

The new British monarch has not earned such a title, say climate activists from colonized nations

Unity between labor and environmentalists are forged by fighting for local projects, as well as broader initiatives. Many environmental justice groups believe working-class communities shouldn't have to shoulder costs of a crisis they didn't create.

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

The direct environmental impacts of global military operations carried out by just one nation are enormous, and these impacts only get worse when we include other nations’ military operations as well.