Solnit has worked on environmental and human rights campaigns since the 1980s, notably with the Western Shoshone Defense Project in the early 1990s, as described in her book Savage Dreams, and with antiwar activists throughout the Bush era.
Solnit traballou en campañas en defensa do medio e dos dereitos humanos desde a década de 1980, especialmente co Western Shoshone Defense Project a principios dos 90, como se describe no seu libro Savage Dreams, e con activistas antiguerra ao longo da era Bush.