Kathleen Dean Moore is an Oregon author and activist. Her newest work is a music/spoken-word performance with pianist Rachelle McCabe about the moral urgency of the global extinction crisis.
Kathleen Dean Moore
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Bedrock Rights: Part Four
Kathleen Dean Moore reports on a court ruling that fossil fuel corporations and governments, in collusion, are directly violating rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Continue reading
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Bedrock Rights: Part Three
Kathleen Dean Moore reports on a court ruling that fossil fuel corporations and governments, in collusion, are directly violating rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Continue reading
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Bedrock Rights: Part Two
This week, more than 25,000 people gather at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow to address what is not only a global environmental catastrophe, but a global crisis of justice. In Continue reading
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Bedrock Rights: Introduction
Kathleen Dean Moore reports on a court ruling that fossil fuel corporations and governments, in collusion, are directly violating rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Continue reading
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One Long River of Song
Little, Brown, 2019. $27, 272 pages. WHO WAS Brian Doyle? He was a hilarious writer and a heartbroken man. He was a scamp, and he was as close to a holy Continue reading
Enumeration
12 Heart-Breaking Sounds That Will Remain When There Is No Heart to Break for Them
The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the / heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it. — Robinson Jeffers, Continue reading
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One Good Turn
Five ordinary people put everything on the line in order to shut off the flow of oil through the Keystone Pipeline. Continue reading
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The Rules of the River
AT MIDNIGHT ON THE Toklat River in the Alaska Range, the thermometer recorded ninety-three degrees. The sun, dragging anchor in the northwest sky, fired rounds of heat against the cabin. I Continue reading
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Silence Like Scouring Sand
RAIN POUNDS against the open tailgate of my car, where I’ve taken shelter from the worst of the storm. Water pours from the hemlocks onto the devil’s club. From maple bole Continue reading
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The Right Side of the Law
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Continue reading