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Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
The pandemic is a testing ground for how to address the climate crisis, and vice-versa.
Nadia Colburn
Our Economic System Is on Life Support, But Who Are We Really Saving?
Our Economic System Is on Life Support, But Who Are We Really Saving?
Pumping new money into the economy without altering power relations will only exacerbate existing inequalities.
Laurie Macfarlane
2020: When the Great Disruption Began
2020: When the Great Disruption Began
“The last global crisis didn’t change the world. But this one could” - William Davies It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over...
Paul Gilding
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
Since April 1 in some parts of the world is a traditional day for playing tricks and elaborate jokes (mostly on one’s friends), I found myself musing about the world I would like to see and had some fun taking about five minutes to jot down the following list (without...
John Foran
Freedom and the Market
Freedom and the Market
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...
Raoul Martinez
Covid-19 Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change
Covid-19 Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change
A devastating problem crops up.
Elizabeth Sawin
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?
Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?
Jeremy Lent
5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis
5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis
The human tragedy of the coronavirus is immense. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected globally, and millions more have been affected. Whilst infectious disease has always been a part of the human experience, the expansion of industrial civilization...
Matt Mellen
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
This past weekend, a bright Georgetown undergraduate asked me how I squared my passion for localization with the theory of comparative advantage. For economics newbies, he was referring to David Ricardo’s argument that every community should find one product to specialize in...
Michael Shuman
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The pandemic, economic collapse and the government’s response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US healthcare nonsystem and the economy. The government was able to...
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
Josh Liveright
Building the New America
Building the New America
I: The American Reality America was founded on a dream. It was a dream that all people, from all the war-torn and disease-ridden corners of the earth, could come to this new-age Promised Land and build a common future side-by-side. It was half history, and half mythology...
Matthew R. Bishop
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
“Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...
Charles Eisenstein
30 Day Poetry Challenge
30 Day Poetry Challenge
to Babalu Aye
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple fact: it’s low-wage workers that make our society run — not bankers, landlords, or CEOs.
Mindy Isser
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, millionaires and billionaires, who have been key to oppressing the working class, are trying to position themselves as everyday Americans. We need to understand them for what they are: beneficiaries and key supporters of the capitalist...
Mike Pappas
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
A promising commons-based approach for the digital age.
Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel
Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy
Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our...
Parker Palmer
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
Our consumer culture is collective insanity and it's driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker.
John F Schumaker
No New Normal
No New Normal
“May you live in interesting times." A curse once assigned Chinese origin, now thought to be apocryphal, is deceptively mild until you realize you have no resistance to a novel, viral load of interestingness. We feel like we can’t blink, yet our eyelids are getting very...
Stacco Troncoso
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
"We can call it a bailout. But this is so big it is more like Congress is creating a new government for our economy, replacing our old government. And this one doesn't have any meaningful democratic protections. A pandemic coup." —Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law
Jake Johnson
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
An NYC physician on the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalism’s complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We don’t just need a new...
Mike Pappas
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Political
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Political
In 2008, they told us not to “politicize” the crash. We ended up with a decade of austerity. The coronavirus crisis will reshape the economy in profound ways — now is the time to make socialist arguments about how to respond.
Grace Blakeley
Noam Chomsky: We Can't Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky: We Can't Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism
Note: This excerpt was adapted from Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky, edited by Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar and Paul Shannon. As the COVID-19 pandemic turns the global political and economic order on its head, two vastly different futures appear possible...
Noam Chomsky
Bernie Sanders Would Be Crazy to Drop Out Now. It Would Also Be Bad for Biden.
Bernie Sanders Would Be Crazy to Drop Out Now. It Would Also Be Bad for Biden.
Since Super Tuesday, one after the other, the arms of the corporate media and Democratic establishment have been calling for Bernie Sanders to drop out. While it is true that his path to victory has greatly narrowed (there’s no sugarcoating it), right now is not the time for...
Saib Bilaval
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
The COVID-19 public health crisis is rapidly devolving into a vast, multi-faceted crisis of social reproduction with no end in sight. How can we seize this moment to build dual power?
Woodbine
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?
Max Haiven
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
Beautiful Trouble’s irreverent guide to activism in the time of pandemic
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but...
Michael Hudson
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center...
Lynn Ungar
Brother Richard Hendrick Wrote a Poem About the Coronavirus. It's Beautiful.
Brother Richard Hendrick Wrote a Poem About the Coronavirus. It's Beautiful.
Yes there is fear.
Richard Hendrick
Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
This bears repeating: Humans are not inherently toxic and destructive. Humanity is not a cancer.
Tim Hjersted
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The coronavirus shutdown as a dress rehearsal for the reformation of late-capitalism to allow climate repair.
Eamonn Kelly
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
Frightening commentary has emerged among liberals committing to a protest-vote against both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Proponents argue that, in some undescribed way, their protest-vote will send to these front-runners the “signal” that they are not entitled to our...
Ariän El-Taher
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
Like all cult leaders, Trump fills a certain void for his followers. Stopping him means providing pathways to sustainable forms of spiritual fulfillment.
Michael Nagler
Joe Biden Isn't the Safe Bet to Beat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders Is.
Joe Biden Isn't the Safe Bet to Beat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders Is.
Joe Biden is a weak candidate who is more likely to lose to Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders. The best chance we have at ousting Trump is voting for Sanders in the rest of the primaries.
Will Meyer and Ashwin Ravikumar
Agenda 21: the UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Agenda 21: the UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Virtually none of the outlandish claims about Agenda 21 are true. Yet, as with all such baseless propaganda, the hysteria over it has had the effect of poisoning any kind of rational discussion of the very real challenges we face — challenges that are essential to tackle...
Heidi Beirich
The One-Choice Election
The One-Choice Election
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Chris Hedges
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...
A Feminist Future
Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class
Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since his election.
Paul Street
Joe Biden Would Be Donald Trump's Dream Opponent
Joe Biden Would Be Donald Trump's Dream Opponent
Donald Trump had the perfect opponent in the 2016 election. Running as a populist billionaire taking on the Washington elite, he couldn’t have asked for a better rival in Hillary Clinton, who carried heavy political baggage and who, for many, personified the so-called...
Conor Lynch
The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism
The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.
Peter Bloom
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
We Are All One
We Are All One
Love, Peace and the Interconnection of All Life
Ebrajm
It's Medicare or Coronavirus-For-All
It's Medicare or Coronavirus-For-All
A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.
David Korten
Trump Vs. Sanders: a Concise Comparison for Voters (And Why Bernie Wins Hands Down)
Trump Vs. Sanders: a Concise Comparison for Voters (And Why Bernie Wins Hands Down)
When there is a conflict between big business and the public good, on labor rights, consumer rights, small taxpayer respect, and environmental protections, Bernie has stood with the people.
Ralph Nader
Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence
Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence
Nonviolence is not simply the absence of violence, but about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice, and working to repair the harm.
Kazu Haga
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
We must think, act and organize locally, while simultaneously cultivating a global vision and global solidarity.
Ronnie Cummins
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.
Chris Hedges
Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump's GOP
Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump's GOP
There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Roy Eidelson
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More
We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More
The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.
Chris Maisano
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
The following text is a translation of Marian Díez‘s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation
Internationalism or Extinction
Internationalism or Extinction
Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.
Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar
'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders
'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders
"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."
Jon Queally
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future.
Christopher D. Cook
Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: the Green New Deal
Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: the Green New Deal
If millions of Americans started driving electric cars with Federal tax breaks and an end to gasoline subsidies, American petroleum demand would plummet.
Juan Cole