Education Sneak Peek
Read the Dirt’s latest project is its Ear to the Ground newsletter. The newsletter is a civic intelligence service. We read local [read more …]
Check It Out!
Read the Dirt is launching an affordable, exclusive newsletter that takes the model of a corporate intelligence service, and wields it for [read more …]
US Climate Movement: Funnel Money Downward if You Want to Survive
This Read the Dirt production was published by Earth Island Journal. Since the election of Donald Trump, many people who have not [read more …]
Part 2: Jordan Cove LNG Backers Spend Huge Money to Sway Tiny Oregon County Election
This Read the Dirt production was published by DeSmogBlog Two weeks ahead of an Oregon county special election, backers of the multi-billion [read more …]
Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
This Read the Dirt production was published by DeSmogBlog and Truthout. Scattered throughout Coos County, situated on Oregon’s southern coast, are signs [read more …]
Get To Know The BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization
This Read the Dirt production was published by Popular Resistance. Chris Christie once told a Badass Teacher that he was “sick”of people [read more …]
Re-Imagining Local Public Space, From Parks to Post Offices
This Read the Dirt production was published by The Leap. As austerity and privatization spread around the globe, there has never been [read more …]
For Teachers and Citizens: How to Respond to Federal Immigration Raids
Editor’s Note: TeachDream is a “group of educators and counselors working in New York City Public Schools, as part of an Inquiry [read more …]
How To Respond When Your (Local) Government Gets Sued By A Corporation
Editor’s Note: This piece, by Tish O’Dell of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Ohio Community Rights Network, was written [read more …]
Interview: The Working Class Movement Fighting for Local Authority
Editor’s Note: Make the Road New York is a membership-based grassroots immigrant organization that leads and supports local lawmaking efforts, including recent [read more …]
Interview: Challenging Corporations’ ‘Right’ To Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
Editor’s Note: Oregonians for Community Rights has filed paperwork to begin petitioning for a “Right to Local, Community Self-Government” state constitutional amendment [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: December 2013
Read the Dirt has some exciting if not momentarily sad news to announce: We are going on sabbatical. Simon Davis-Cohen, our co-founder [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: November 2013
Welcome to our November 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: October 2013
Welcome to our October 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: September 2013
Welcome to our September 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. When bacteria are surrounded by their own kind—when they [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: August 2013
Welcome to our August 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us as we work to provide tactical information. [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: July 2013
Welcome to our July 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. This month we are featuring: an extensive (multi-article) look [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: June 2013
Welcome to our June 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Here you will find summaries of eight new Read [read more …]
Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights
Editor’s Note: As banks continue to foreclose our homes a new narrative about housing—one focused on rights—begins to emerge. Kari of We [read more …]
GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights
By Clinton Lindsey, 5th-generation farmer and co-founder of Benton County Community Rights Coalition Editor’s Note: Benton County, Oregon grows seed (including wheat) [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: May 2013
Welcome to our May 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Scroll down for this month’s articles and correspondence. [read more …]
Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
Editor’s Note: Trisha Mandes speaks to the deficiencies of U.S. food activism and proposes an adaptive way forward. Trisha has worked with [read more …]
Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights
Editor’s Note: Rachael DeCruz of Washington Community Action Network and the Seattle-King County NAACP speaks to the conflict between people’s right to [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: April 2013
Welcome to our first Monthly Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. This here should help you navigate our publication. Below [read more …]
Articles On Featured Originals
Featured Originals:
- Sep 26 Education Sneak Peek
- Jul 21 Check It Out!
- Jun 5 US Climate Movement: Funnel Money Downward if You Want to Survive
- May 19 Part 2: Jordan Cove LNG Backers Spend Huge Money to Sway Tiny Oregon County Election
- May 2 Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
- Mar 10 Get To Know The BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization
- Mar 6 Re-Imagining Local Public Space, From Parks to Post Offices
- Jan 12 For Teachers and Citizens: How to Respond to Federal Immigration Raids
- Jan 5 How To Respond When Your (Local) Government Gets Sued By A Corporation
- May 25 Interview: The Working Class Movement Fighting for Local Authority
- Apr 29 Interview: Challenging Corporations’ ‘Right’ To Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
- Dec 8 Editor’s Introduction: December 2013
- Nov 8 Editor’s Introduction: November 2013
- Oct 8 Editor’s Introduction: October 2013
- Sep 8 Editor’s Introduction: September 2013
- Aug 8 Editor’s Introduction: August 2013
- Jul 8 Editor’s Introduction: July 2013
- Jun 8 Editor’s Introduction: June 2013
- Jun 8 Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights
- Jun 6 GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights
- May 8 Editor’s Introduction: May 2013
- May 8 Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
- May 8 Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights
- Apr 8 Editor’s Introduction: April 2013
