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The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He’s talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.
Jesse Jackson
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their...
David Swanson
On February 6th Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, or Why I Support Only Sanders
On February 6th Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, or Why I Support Only Sanders
Even if we elect a better-than-Trump, half-measures candidate, we're still not better off. Our grandchildren will curse us all the same.
Thomas Neuburger
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
Nonty Charity Sabic is cofounder of the international Rise Ubuntu Network, based on “ubuntu”, an indigenous South African philosophy that aims to teach and collectively remember the connection shared between humans and nature. Based in Barcelona, Sabic is involved in...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
Attention is like a spotlight—whatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert
The End of the Corporation?
The End of the Corporation?
It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.
Marjorie Kelly
Speaking of Nature
Speaking of Nature
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it. Innovating...
Daniel Christian Wahl
It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics
It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics
Ignore the usual fairytale. Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter
Jason Hickel
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as it's profitable.
Nicole M. Aschoff
Bernie Sanders Faces a Media Rigged Against Him
Bernie Sanders Faces a Media Rigged Against Him
CNN and CBS do it. NPR and PBS do it. They all do it.
Jeff Cohen
What Do We Want? Unbiased Reporting! When Do We Want It? During Protests!
What Do We Want? Unbiased Reporting! When Do We Want It? During Protests!
The new decade is just days old, but in one respect it is already shaping up like the last one: with mass protests around the world. Rallies for democracy overseas and
Danielle K. Kilgo
Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection
Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection
Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need...
Center for Nonviolent Communication
The Invisible Ideology Trashing Our Planet
The Invisible Ideology Trashing Our Planet
If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then you are showing symptoms of drowning in the “insidious” and “sinister” ideology...
Brendan Montague
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Some people are starting to talk about regenerative cultures as possible pathways towards a thriving future of people unfolding their unique potential within the context of the communities and regions they help to regenerate — cultures that are healthy, resilient and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
Tim Hjersted
“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems
“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems
Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously “shit-life syndrome”—and its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.
Bruce E. Levine
Bernie Sanders Isn't a Radical — He's a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-Rig the System
Bernie Sanders Isn't a Radical — He's a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-Rig the System
Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich
Mark Weisbrot
Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
The uprising across Canada in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders shows no sign of stopping. As of February 11, ports, bridges, rail lines, highways and roads have been blockaded across much of the country by solidarity protesters, who have also occupied the...
Joyce Nelson
Democrats Team up With Trump to Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System
Democrats Team up With Trump to Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System
Both Republicans and Democrats have blocked all attempts to build a rational, universal health care policy for the U.S. This is because capitalism prioritizes profit over the health and well-being of the working class. Creating a truly just health care system will require...
Mike Pappas
The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers
The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers
Pick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or
C. Thi Nguyen
Think Twice Before Shouting Your Virtues Online – Moral Grandstanding Is Unhealthy
Think Twice Before Shouting Your Virtues Online – Moral Grandstanding Is Unhealthy
In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85% say political discourse has gotten worse over the last several years, according to Pew Research.
Joshua B. Grubbs
America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy
America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy
Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.
Robert Reich
The New Year: Molding a New Reality
The New Year: Molding a New Reality
If you can dream it, you can do it,” is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff. 
John Perkins
The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is The Only One Saying It's About Us
The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is The Only One Saying It's About Us
When Bernie says it's not about him, I see my values and fears and hopes represented in a way I never have before.
Cari Hernandez
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its goals. Rather, it is essentially a very pragmatic approach that begins not with a “system”...
Martin Oetting
Why Climate Action Is the Antithesis of White Supremacy
Why Climate Action Is the Antithesis of White Supremacy
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
Rebecca Solnit
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?" - Initiatives of Change International
Rob Corcoran
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of what’s...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
In the often polarizing and intense debates on identity politics you often encounter three talking points from those who oppose those who criticise identity politics. First, that all politics is identity politics. Second, critics of so called “identity politics” ignore the...
Ralph Leonard
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.
Debbie Bookchin, Sixtine van Outryve
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"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” ~ Brené Brown
Justice Bartlett
Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real
Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real
There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with disastrous results, and one scientist noted in September 2018 that the scientific...
JR Thorpe
Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game
Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game
"Voting is a chess move, not a valentine. And here's the joy of being politically engaged all year round every year; you get to work with a whole lot of chess pieces and players and strategies and longterm visions, so you don't agonize over whether this little hop with a pawn...
Tim Hjersted
Hope Is an Imperative: Sparking an Ecological Design Revolution
Hope Is an Imperative: Sparking an Ecological Design Revolution
While society prepares for the future of a world ravaged by climate change, environmental educator David Orr has spent years writing about how to reverse it. Orr advocates for an ecological design revolution to change how we build homes, grow food and model society, so that...
David Orr, Bioneers
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.
Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha
The New 'Black Codes'
The New 'Black Codes'
The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest.
Chris Hedges
Before the White Race Was Invented
Before the White Race Was Invented
Theodore W. Allen The Invention of the White Race Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control Volume Two: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (London and New York: Verso, 1994 and 1997). THERE ARE FOUR main theses advanced by Theodore Allen in his...
Jonathan Scott
Introduction To The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen
Introduction To The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical understanding. This two-volume classic, first published in 1994 and 1997, presents a full-scale...
Jeffrey B. Perry
Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence
Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence
 
Films For Action
I Study Collapsed Civilizations. Here’s My Advice for a Climate Change Apocalypse.
I Study Collapsed Civilizations. Here’s My Advice for a Climate Change Apocalypse.
I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, social upheaval, or some apocalyptic event. Right now, much of that concern...
Chris Begley
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
In one department of a giant steel mill in northwest Indiana a foreman assigned a white worker to the job of operating a crane. The Black workers in the department felt that on the basis of seniority and job experience, one of them should have been given the job, which...
Noel Ignatin
A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality
A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality
"Intersectionality calls for the recognition of multiple forms of oppression and exploitation and the need for solidarity. These are ideas that should be supported by everybody. So where does the need come from to criticize the concept of intersectionality from a decolonial...
Sandew Hira
How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate
How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate
I made my way from the dark side to the light. And I hope it wasn’t too late.
Martin Oetting
How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts
How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts
Getting in touch with our feelings and sharing "I-statements" is a known strategy for communicating nonviolently and bettering our chances of being heard.
Teri Lynn
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"
Shareable
Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration
Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration
Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and selfish and destroy our own habitat trying to gain more wealth or more power. If we reach...
Daniel Christian Wahl,
Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities
Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities
Focusing on identities in our political conversations is divisive and restrictive. How can we shift the conversation back to principles?
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)
As a child, I was the shy kid who kept to herself. I rarely shared my inner world with others outside my close friendship circle, and even as an adult, my auto-default is still to hold my tongue.
Teri Lynn
Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires
Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires
We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our economic system will save our future, but these proposals...
Jeremy Lent
Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution
Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution
Many of us with radical politics likely formed them in response to histories of trauma and abuse – sometimes in the form of discrete, identifiable traumatic events, sometimes in the form of cumulative interpersonal micro-traumas (e.g. rejections, invalidations, humiliation...
Prefigurology
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
This essay originated as a kind of stump speech, an effort to spell out and update an argument about the uses of anti-racism and anti-discrimination that I’ve been making for some time to audiences that might or might not be familiar with it. The idea of publishing some...
Walter Benn Michaels
Black Politics After 2016
Black Politics After 2016
Many pundits and scholars have remarked on how the 2016 election reflected the significance of race in American politics. One strain of commentary to that effect contends that Trump’s election revealed a deep commitment to racism among white voters, especially working-class...
Adolph Reed, Jr
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to...
Michael Lerner
Control is a Trap
Control is a Trap
At the root of many mental health problems is experiential avoidance. As touched upon in a previous entry, experiential avoidance is trying to avoid, suppress, or get rid of certain private experiences (i.e. emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, memories), regardless of...
Prefigurology
Yes, You Can Change Someone's Mind
Yes, You Can Change Someone's Mind
There’s something fascinating about stories that recount a major change of heart. Like the one of C.P. Ellis, a White member of the KKK, and Ann Atwater, a Black community activist, who in 1971 were thrown together as co-chairs of a group focused on school desegregation in...
Amanda Abrams
It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge
It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge
Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans aren’t around, has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know now that animals use tools in their daily lives. Chimps use twigs to fish for termites; sea otters...
George Nicholas
Converting Businesses to Cooperatives Just Got Easier
Converting Businesses to Cooperatives Just Got Easier
A coming wave of Baby Boomer retirements threatens the survival of many small businesses. This initiative is making employee-ownership a more viable option.
Isabella Garcia
Fighting for Reforms Isn't Enough. It's Time We Reach for Prison Abolition.
Fighting for Reforms Isn't Enough. It's Time We Reach for Prison Abolition.
Our communities cannot be safe within a system that fights harm with greater harm.
Tanya Watkins