#Direct Action

Hope as a Tool, Not a Talisman

Rebecca Solnit overturns a familiar habit: treating hope like a lucky ticket we clutch while waiting for fortune. By recasting it as an ax, she turns hope from a passive feeling into an instrument for intervention.

Refusing Passivity, Shaping a World That Responds

At the outset, Baldwin's injunction reframes passivity as complicity. To refuse passivity is to accept responsibility for consequences.