Our Story - Overstory Alliance

The Overstory Alliance is a community that empowers people to reconnect with the living world and defend the future of life.

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Pipeline Resistance

We work to support Indigenous-led efforts to resist the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline in northern Minnesota through media, training, and action. We aim to make Line 3 the most expensive pipeline that never gets built.

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Library Articles

We’ve written a cornucopia of articles about our world, its origins, its messy present, and the future it’s heading for. Designed for education, these articles tell our story, and why we fight for deep justice.

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Articles from our library

Decolonization

10 minute read (1995 words) Decolonization is the process by which we right the genocidal wrongs of the past. So what does this process mean to the world, and to ourselves?

Food Sovereignty & Relocalization

18 minute read (3647 words) How can we reclaim control, of the food system in times of turmoil? Food sovereignty may provide some hope, and relocalization provides the means.

Regenerative Agriculture

13 minute read (2261 words) Regenerative agriculture is key to ecological restoration and creating a just food system.

Community Governance and Economies

10 minute read (1968 words) The centralized states of the present are unsustainable in the face of resource depletion. Looking ahead, community governance offers a promising alternative.

Economic Growth: Addiction and Its Alternatives

16 minute read (3582 words) Economic growth is not optional; under capitalism, it’s required for an economy to survive. How is growth embedded in our lives, and how might we change focus?

Learning to Live (and Living to Learn)

11 minute read (2292 words) What is education really for? Let’s discuss how we can mend the learning deficits of modern education and help those around us to do the same.

Political and Economic Institutions of Injustice

12 minute read (2325 words) The modern industrial world is killing the planet it depends on for survival; but in the process, it commits grave injustices upon its human denizens, too.

The Human Superorganism

14 minute read (3069 words) As human society has grown ever-larger, organized, and inter-reliant, our collective behavior remains simplified and predictable. Enter: the “superorganism.”

Movement School

Overstory Alliance is partnering with Cooperation Northfield to host a program that teaches and trains passionate young people to be effective changemakers. We’re piloting the program in Minnesota this summer, and will begin accepting applications for our first cohort shortly.

More coming soon!