Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the author of numerous books, including his latest: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition? His previous works include: State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream; The United States of Appalachia; Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland; and the forthcoming Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition. Follow him on twitter: @JeffRBiggers
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Views Thursday, July 04, 2019 Climate Strike: Youth Activism Is Giving Their Parents' Generation a Second Chance For 11 weeks this spring, my 14-year-old kid refused to go to school on Fridays, setting up a climate strike picket line in front of his school district building or the city hall in Iowa City, Iowa, where we live. A handful of other students joined him, including his older brother, as did a cadre... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 Climate Storytellers Inspire Roadmap to Action Earlier this year, taking a front row seat at a church in Gary, Indiana, I watched as a young rapper, local food leader, and an arts educator beguiled a standing-room-only audience with a theatrical envisioning of their city in the year 2030. Read more |
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Views Friday, October 12, 2018 We Need Cities of Resistance: Climate Adaptation Is No Longer an Option IOWA CITY—The arrival of Hurricane Michael on the heels of the landmark IPCC climate report is a reminder that climate "adaptation" is no longer a viable option. Adapting to a failed system in an age of climate change, as the devastation from Hurricane Michael attests, is failure, not adaptation... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 04, 2018 The American Resistance Should Also Salute This Corsican Revolutionary on July 4th The following is excerpted from the author's new book, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition? "The greatest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words,” President Donald Trump declared in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 01, 2018 Trump Is Following Arizona’s Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back The “ total chaos ” of the Trump administration’s handling of immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is deja vu all over again for Arizonans. The same goes for this week’s Supreme Court ruling to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a proclamation “motivated by anti-Muslim animus,” as Justice... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Trump's Immigration Debacle Repeats History's Mistakes When lawmakers meet with President Trump on Tuesday to discuss immigration policy, the trauma of thousands of incarcerated immigrant children separated at the border from their asylum-seeking parents should pinpoint the failure of the Trump administration's new " zero tolerance " policy. "To undo a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 01, 2018 May Day: Arizona Teachers Have Resistance History on Their Side Now in their fourth day on the picket line, the striking Arizona teachers are following a century-old labor tradition that galvanized the founding of the state in 1912 and constitutionally required the legislature to adequately fund education. Arizona's first governor George W. P. Hunt oversaw a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 27, 2018 My Kid Doesn’t Need Permission To Walk Out My 15-year-old son texted me from the streets of Iowa City last week, as he joined other kids in a walkout to support survivors of the shooting that took place earlier this month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. By the time they reached the historic Old Capitol of Iowa... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 27, 2017 Coal Kills And Coal Is Not Dead Amid all the “war on coal” and climate denial banter, you never hear one basic fact from either side: Coal kills. And far from the “coal is dead” trope that well-meaning environmental observers stress now, another fact is that our nation is on track to mine 785 million tons of coal this year. That... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Trump’s Arpaio Pardon? Instead, Arizona’s Confederate Monuments Must Come Down Any pardon of disgraced and criminally convicted former Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Donald Trump would be a de facto monument to “the most egregious racial profiling in the United States” and “chronic culture of disregard for basic legal and constitutional obligations,” at least according to a federal... Read more |