Cornell on Fire Weekly 6/20: We’ve always done it this way
We are alive at a time when the way things have “always” been is no longer a good guide to the future. But this simple point is hypnotically hard to communicate. On this Summer Solstice, consider four true stories…and imagine changing our lives for the vastly more beautiful. To the miracle of the commons!
Cornell on Fire Weekly 6/5: Earthside
The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable: we are in the middle of a climate catastrophe. The Climate Defiance movement has been calling on people to “drop everything” and act. Why don’t we? Together, we have immense power to help Cornell lead by example in the transition we all desperately need.
Cornell on Fire Weekly 5/1
On April 22nd, we moved to Reclaim Earth Day from media greenwashing, corporate propaganda, and obfuscation by the political shills of the reigning socioeconomic world order. On this May Day, we must move onward to secure the earth itself and all its inhabitants, human and others, from those who are burning and inundating and poisoning and stripping it of life for the sake of personal profit, and from the political-economic system that enables and protects them.
Cornell on Fire Weekly 4/24
When over 440 people take action across Tompkins County to reclaim their relationship with earth and one another, something moves. On Monday, April 22, the people of Ithaca joined forces across campuses and the community to act in concert with the national movement to Reclaim Earth Day. We streamed in from the east, south, north, and west, in six different marches converging on the center. Under clear blue skies, we reclaimed our duty and our right to climate honesty.
Cornell on Fire Weekly 4/10
If you felt communion under hushed and darkened skies on Tuesday, please channel that collective recognition. We can mobilize around the path of habitability just as we did for the path of totality. Just as we left work, skipped class, and shut down business for personal totality on April 8th, we can do so to Reclaim Earth Day for collective survival on April 22nd. (Minus the emissions, obv.)