Revolution in Progress: Solnit's New Book

0:00It's March 25th, from your city to your ears. This is Adelaide News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the Story. Rebecca Solnit, the writer who popularized the term mansplaining, explores in her new book how society has undergone a slow but steady revolution. Since the 1950s, this shift shows up in greater acceptance of gender equality, racial justice, sexual rights, science, and climate action. She argues that authoritarian moves are just backlash against these deep changes, not a full takeover. Solnit draws on Italian thinker, Antonio Gramsci's idea of a time between dying old worlds and emerging new ones, full of monsters. Her book opens with a key win. 466 acres of land north of San Francisco return to the federated Indians of Greaten Rancheria, after. Over a century of activism, people often fixate on daily crises for getting past progress which fuels despair or false hope that nothing changes.

1:01Solnit, drawing from her own upbringing and indigenous rights work in California, says governments can erode rights but not the beliefs behind them. Recent victories she highlights include stopping the Keystone XL pipeline after 12 years of effort, marriage equality breakthroughs, and the Paris. Climate agreement. These ones seemed impossible, much like the Berlin Walls fall or Epstein's downfall. She calls for remembering these gains while building solidarity through protests and movements like those against kings or for climate action. Collective efforts, not solo ones, shape the uncertain future ahead.