Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, author most recently of The Faraway Nearby spent time at Occupy San Francisco, Occupy Oakland, and Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and wrote about Occupy often for TomDispatch in 2011-2012.

Change in a time of climate change

When we come together as civil society, we have the capacity to transform policies, change old ways of doing things, and sometimes even topple regimes. That’s why I’m marching this Sunday in New York City.

By Rebecca Solnit

/ 19 Sep 2014

Joy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

In these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as an entity with agency and identity and potency. New possibilities or the old dream of a just society emerge and shine.

By Rebecca Solnit

/ 16 Sep 2013