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Gen Z are the Climate Change Gangstas we Need to Support - Holes in the Wall Collective Radical Opti

A look at the work of Greta Thunberg, Isra Hirsi, Xiye Bastida Patrick, Mari Copeny, and Autumn Peltier.

Essential Workers Support BLM Protests - Holes in the Wall Collective Radical Optimism

Essential Workers Support Black Lives Matter Protesters in New York.

Man listening to record player in Aleppo

Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom, listening to music on his hand-cranked gramophone in Aleppo. Photo by Joseph Eid / AFP / Getty.

Next Generation of Ancient Cedars in B.C.

Forest ecologist Michelle Connolly in an area of B.C.’s inland temperate rainforest that contains stands of ancient cedars, some estimated to be 1,500 years old. Photo: Taylor Roades / The Narwhal.

Collective applause during Coronavirus

People clap from a balcony in honor of essential workers Orense, Spain, photo by EPA/Brais Lorenzo.

Gen Z are the Climate Change Gangstas we Need to Support - Holes in the Wall Collective Radical Opti

A look at the work of Greta Thunberg, Isra Hirsi, Xiye Bastida Patrick, Mari Copeny, and Autumn Peltier.

Essential Workers Support BLM Protests - Holes in the Wall Collective Radical Optimism

Essential Workers Support Black Lives Matter Protesters in New York.

Man listening to record player in Aleppo

Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom, listening to music on his hand-cranked gramophone in Aleppo. Photo by Joseph Eid / AFP / Getty.

Next Generation of Ancient Cedars in B.C.

Forest ecologist Michelle Connolly in an area of B.C.’s inland temperate rainforest that contains stands of ancient cedars, some estimated to be 1,500 years old. Photo: Taylor Roades / The Narwhal.

Collective applause during Coronavirus

People clap from a balcony in honor of essential workers Orense, Spain, photo by EPA/Brais Lorenzo.

Radical Optimism is not blind.

It exists in the tension between total overwhelm and outright denial, making holes in the wall and shining through.

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Community Saturday with Funkrust Brass Band photo by c. bay milin - Summer 2019

How to be radically optimistic:

Step 1 Tell the truth.

step 2 Recognize the work that's always been done, and is already happening.

Step 3 Find the things in your immediate

environment that you can do.

step 4 Celebrate and lift them up.

The Teaspoon Brigade, Prospect Park Brooklyn - Summer 2019

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

- Rollo May

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Gen Z are the Climate Change Gangstas we Need to Support - Holes in the Wall Collective Radical Opti

A look at the work of Greta Thunberg, Isra Hirsi, Xiye Bastida Patrick, Mari Copeny, and Autumn Peltier.