Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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“Economic resistance” — a.k.a. divestment — is as American as apple pie
Divestment veteran Bob Massie lays out what climate-divestment protesters can learn from their apartheid-activist ancestors -- and the Tea Party (the original one).
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Green activists navigate life in the post-privacy era
Technology forces organizers to be cagier and savvier. They can also make transparency their friend.
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Brown to student activists: We can’t live without coal
At one university, the logic of fossil-fuel divestment runs into a brick wall -- held up by trustees with conflicts of interest.
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What to expect when you’re expecting the cops
An expert explains how protests became occasions for mass arrests -- as a byproduct of post-9/11 efforts to protect U.S. cities.
