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The Return of the Common(er)s
The Return of the Common(er)s
Now is the time to transcend the failing systems around us—not by fighting them, but by quietly building something better. This closing article explores how an alternative social and...
Michel Rauchs · 980 views
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
From alpine pastures and salmon fisheries to offshore wind farms and online encyclopedias, commons take many forms. This article explores a wide range of real-world commons that span...
Michel Rauchs · 452 views
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images...
David Schultz · 761 views
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
I write this not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who...
David Schultz · 1,700 views
The Promise of Radical Municipalism in New York City
The Promise of Radical Municipalism in New York City
​What kind of power and solidarity is built and transformed in New York City’s municipalist moment will depend on whether or not the remaking of public and civic infrastructures is...
Ujju Aggarwal · 202 views
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
Fifty years later, Germany’s system of participation is still in danger, as corporate bosses never accepted even this mild intrusion into what they perceive as their domain – the right...
Thomas Klikauer · 239 views
The Empire of Cannibals
The Empire of Cannibals
A system that feeds on the consumption of societies, resources, labor, truth, and ultimately human beings themselves will, sooner or later, begin to demand political types willing to...
Vuk Bačanović · 611 views
Why Antisemitism Obscures the Real Architecture of Power
Why Antisemitism Obscures the Real Architecture of Power
Extreme and criminal ideologies do not fall from the sky; they grow out of the ways societies produce, consume, wage war, and distribute power. And capitalism, in its imperial and...
Vuk Bačanović · 2,510 views
When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government
When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government
Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.
Henry A. Giroux · 894 views
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
​Civil society will push states to act in line with their existing legal obligations to phase out all fossil fuels—including by advancing a Fossil Fuel Treaty that can govern a just and...
Nikki Reisch, Lili Fuhr · 661 views
Open a Community Center: Reject Digital Culture
Open a Community Center: Reject Digital Culture
Digital culture thrives on our alienation, but community centers offer a tangible alternative. We must trade the convenience of the screen for the power of the commons to restore our...
Vincent Emanuele · 2,272 views
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
The official narrative isn’t just cracking—it’s being dismantled by the very people who carried it out.
Joshua Scheer · 3,585 views
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Tl;dr: For historical and cultural reasons, the Commons has remained largely overlooked or misunderstood. But today, it’s more important than ever to restore it as a vital third mode of...
Michel Rauchs · 1,877 views
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
Tl;dr: We are facing an overlapping set of crises that our dominant institutions seem unable to address. While many have withdrawn in disillusionment, their latent desire for change can...
Michel Rauchs · 2,135 views
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Just after midnight, the app lit up again.
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · 81 views
Piracy as Access
Piracy as Access
On a university campus in Jakarta, a group of students gather in a small classroom after hours. The windows are covered. The lights are dim. A projector hums to life.
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · 173 views
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is an urgent reality reshaping our planet, our cities, and our daily lives. While much attention focuses on transportation, energy...
Isabella Quinn · 118 views
Less Analysis, More Organizing
Less Analysis, More Organizing
Why do people spend so much time analyzing and documenting the seemingly never-ending horrors taking place throughout the world at the hands of Trump & Co, but not nearly as much time...
Vincent Emanuele · 1,240 views
[HIT Forum] Prime minister lauds ANN journalists’ role in safeguarding South Korea’s democracy
[HIT Forum] Prime minister lauds ANN journalists’ role in safeguarding South Korea’s democracy
Jung Min-kyung · 43 views
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
A hybrid model of assemblies may be the key to bringing in vast numbers of people into the process of forging a new world and governing the one we have.
Ben Palmquist · 468 views
Why the War Meant to Save Israel May Destroy It
Why the War Meant to Save Israel May Destroy It
For decades, Western political discourse framed Israel as a democratic outpost surrounded by hostile forces. That narrative has steadily eroded. Increasingly, Israel is described—even by...
Ramzy Baroud · 1,639 views
Israel Is Caught in a Permanent State of War
Israel Is Caught in a Permanent State of War
An interview with Israeli academic and activist Idan Landau, who says "as long as the US and Europe continue to insulate Israel from the moral consequences of its policies," things are...
C.J. Polychroniou · 1,718 views
The Weapons Makers Who Fund the Iran War are Also Its Cheerleaders on Your TV
The Weapons Makers Who Fund the Iran War are Also Its Cheerleaders on Your TV
After the American public soured on the Iraq War, many groups that pushed for the invasion tried to downplay their role in the debacle. Here we go again.
Nick Cleveland-Stout, Julian Cooper · 493 views
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka · 575 views
The Military-Industrial Complex 2.0: Big Tech's War of All Against All
The Military-Industrial Complex 2.0: Big Tech's War of All Against All
​Silicon Valley wants us to believe that the only way to “win” a future war is by handing the keys to our political world to a clique of self-defined superior beings headed up by the...
Janet Abou-Elias · 485 views
The War on DEI and the Scourge of White Supremacist Politics
The War on DEI and the Scourge of White Supremacist Politics
What is unfolding is an attempt to restore racial hierarchy as common sense, to turn historical amnesia into governing logic.
Henry A. Giroux · 1,247 views
Kayfabe Politics and the Loss of Authenticity: Lessons from a Madman
Kayfabe Politics and the Loss of Authenticity: Lessons from a Madman
Vermin Supreme, the boot-on-head political satirist who shot to national fame in the Occupy era, may still have a message worth considering in an age when the left often seems splintered...
Jmbunch · 164 views
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
Pat McCabe asks the right question about masculine and feminine - then answers it by building a more beautiful cage. Sapolsky, Eisler, and Yoruba cosmology suggest the Hoop of Life has...
Stuart Parkinson · 124 views
Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis
Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis
As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.
Sou Mi · 1,257 views
Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time
Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet...
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff · 1,868 views
Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet
Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet
“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me...
Shane Burley · 2,081 views
Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
Justice will require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.
Ben Burgis · 692 views
A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame
A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame
An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action
United Panther Party – U.S. · 809 views
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratize our economy and a better world is within our grasp.
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis · 1,715 views
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
I almost couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Kaizen Asiedu · 102 views
When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis
When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis
​In the end, the question is not whether a single post is offensive—it is whether we allow cycles of warranted outrage to consume the very attention required for collective survival.
Peter Scaramuzzo · 967 views
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers · 1,575 views
Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster
Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster
Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.
Stockholm University Communications Office · 1,476 views
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers · 1,408 views
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this...
Manuel Casal Lodeiro · 1,297 views
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rivera Sun · 2,939 views
Debunking the Myth That We’re Not Ready for a National Shutdown
Debunking the Myth That We’re Not Ready for a National Shutdown
This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.
Eugene Puryear · 724 views
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
Dear American Citizens,
Grans-United · 1,964 views
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab · 2,030 views
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter · 2,131 views
We Are All Minnesota
We Are All Minnesota
​Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss · 611 views
When Will Democrats Realize That You Can't Reform Fascism?
When Will Democrats Realize That You Can't Reform Fascism?
The problem is Democratic fecklessness—and it isn’t limited to just the future of ICE. Dismantling the ICE regime needs to be the floor, not the ceiling, and any Democrat in Congress who...
Will Bunch · 482 views
1 Year in, Trump Already Has His Own Fascist Paramilitary Squad
1 Year in, Trump Already Has His Own Fascist Paramilitary Squad
​ICE tactics are designed to instill fear in people and create chaos in communities as part of an overarching strategy aimed to silence opposition to Trump’s overall domestic agenda and...
C.J. Polychroniou · 595 views
Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term
Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term
A year into Trump's second term, Amnesty International warns of escalating authoritarian practices in the US. Will we stand by as human rights are eroded, or will we take action to...
Julia Conley · 802 views
Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future
Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future
It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good...
C.J. Polychroniou · 788 views
Organize! Yes, but How?
Organize! Yes, but How?
Most people agree we need to organize — but few talk concretely about how. This guide draws on a century of Swedish labor organizing to offer a practical framework for building real...
Rasmus Hästbacka · 967 views
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a...
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara · 1,149 views
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
​Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Martin Burns · 929 views
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
​By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same...
David Suzuki · 4,525 views
In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country for Its Resources
In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country for Its Resources
Democratic lawmaker slams Stephen Miller's diatribe on US imperialism in Venezuela and Greenland. Miller claims US will secure resources unapologetically. Sanders calls out...
Julia Conley · 537 views
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression...
Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI) · 498 views
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi · 801 views
There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.
There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.
It’s far easier to end up on the wrong end of the spectrum than you might think.
Rachel Rutter · 2,077 views
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.
Julia Conley · 1,367 views
A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela
A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela
​Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers...
Kevin Young · 626 views
Tools for Growing the Commons
Tools for Growing the Commons
The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.
Michel Rauchs · 6,068 views
Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget
Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget
Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.
Catherine Lutz · 609 views
Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Is Devastating Children
Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Is Devastating Children
​If you care about children; if you say you’re “pro-life;” if you consider yourself a good or moral person, you should care about how the US treats all children.
Rachel Rutter · 263 views
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
Celina Su · 389 views
Israel's Colonial Aims Are the Main Barrier to Lasting Peace
Israel's Colonial Aims Are the Main Barrier to Lasting Peace
What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially?
Ramzy Baroud · 296 views
You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, but the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You
You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, but the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You
​A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.
Jim Naureckas · 432 views
ICE Raids Against Farmworkers Expose the Pretense of Border Security
ICE Raids Against Farmworkers Expose the Pretense of Border Security
​When the state hunts its most essential—and most exploited—workers to meet deportation quotas, the myth of border security collapses.
Julia Norman · 489 views
Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree
Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree
Declaring unilaterally that a war exists (when it doesn't) and then bombing unarmed civilian boats in international waters is inherently illegal, regardless of whether anyone is killed...
Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith · 320 views
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.
Grace Mausser · 1,025 views
This Thanksgiving, Let’s Feed Families, Not Factory Farms
This Thanksgiving, Let’s Feed Families, Not Factory Farms
​Nearly 70% of the grain grown in this country—corn, soy, wheat, and barley—never feeds a single human being. Instead, it’s fed to pigs, chickens, and cows packed into industrial animal...
Matthew Dominguez · 731 views
Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death
Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death
When a mega-billionaire carps that a “doomsday outlook” is harming the climate movement, it's important to say many things in response, including this: he's dead wrong.
Juan Cole · 568 views
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
"The advance of the extreme right, fascism and wars around the world exacerbates the climate crisis and the exploitation of nature and of peoples. The countries of the global North...
People's Summit Towards COP30 · 551 views
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism...
Ben Burgis · 471 views
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal...
Cléo Mieulet · 704 views
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
​The opposition’s proposed total economic surrender to US corporate interests would doom Venezuela to the same conditions that led to Chavez’s rise to power.
Joseph Bouchard · 946 views
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza, Hamas Pledges to Uphold It
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza, Hamas Pledges to Uphold It
According to the Israeli newspaper
Juan Cole · 230 views
100% of Cluster Bomb Victims Last Year Were Civilians—Nearly Half of Them Children
100% of Cluster Bomb Victims Last Year Were Civilians—Nearly Half of Them Children
Human rights leaders are urging countries to reinforce the ban on cluster munitions, as a report reveals civilian suffering caused by these deadly bombs. How many more innocent lives...
Julia Conley · 375 views
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
So if we want real change – and a world where future generations of all life, not just human beings, can live in peace with equal rights and justice for all – we have to tackle corporate...
Helena Paul · 500 views
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important...
Tom Murphy · 2,447 views
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Oh No. Is Do the Math about to get hijacked for another long series about a Daniel Quinn book, like it was for Ishmael?
Tom Murphy · 1,230 views
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
We’re awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence...
Tom Murphy · 1,167 views
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Michael Shuman · 1,190 views
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO...
Local Futures · 871 views
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.
Daniel Hunter · 760 views
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trump’s return to “absolute” power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are two notes in particular...
Chuck Idelson · 1,305 views
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
Daniel Hunter · 8,260 views
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:
We the Undersigned · 1,576 views
Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence
Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence
This article from May, 2010 should haunt the world. - Spread Knowledge
Yousef Munayyer · 414 views
20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left
20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left
It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left:
Jonathan Matthew Smucker · 1,691 views
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a “living tradition” of...
Unitarian Universalist Association · 1,429 views
LAST CALL!
LAST CALL!
"Last Call!" is a cinematic examination of the question of who determines our future. The filmmakers Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli accompany climate activists, climate researchers...
Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli · 152 views
To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case
To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case
"This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif
Jon Queally · 1,356 views
14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians
14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians
Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S...
Media Education Foundation · 1,149 views
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
In the Bible’s first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow · 1,003 views
This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF
This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and...
Juan Cole · 1,349 views
When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?
When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?
For the past month, Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been presented to the world as if it hasn’t already happened repeatedly (five times to be exact) since Gaza was put under brutal siege...
Mohammed Abu-Nimer · 1,419 views
Israel Hit Gaza Strip With the Equivalent of Two Nuclear Bombs
Israel Hit Gaza Strip With the Equivalent of Two Nuclear Bombs
Geneva - Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since the start of its large-scale war on 7 October, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, Euro-Med Human...
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor · 2,186 views
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
"Raising the standard of living for the working class by increasing the minimum wage, creating stronger worker protections and job security, funding education and job training, making...
Rhyd Wildermuth · 2,326 views
What You Are Seeing in Gaza Is Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
What You Are Seeing in Gaza Is Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Seventy-five years of global inaction and Israeli impunity have led to this moment in which one of the most vulnerable populations on earth is pummeled by one of the world’s strongest...
Yumna Patel · 1,650 views
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
"Amid all this insanity, we are deeply moved by and thankful for all Israelis and Palestinians who remain committed to nonviolence, even now that another violent chapter is opened. True...
Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki · 7,972 views
If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price
If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price
The US achieved nothing in the Middle East, but millions of civilians paid the price – the same will be true now
Paul Rogers · 1,989 views
Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other
Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other
"Not everything that looks like liberation actually is, nor is every political idea which claims to help people actually helpful. Sometimes, we can dream up things which become...
Rhyd Wildermuth · 1,663 views
Yes, Israel Is a Racist State
Yes, Israel Is a Racist State
The structure of Israeli governance is embodied with discrimination against Palestinian citizens.
Khelil Bouarrouj · 1,536 views
Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media
Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media
“Liking” a post on social media might not seem like a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups actually depend a great deal on their readers’ online engagement.
Luca Goldmansour · 5,432 views
Worker Self-Directed Enterprises: the Cure for Capitalism
Worker Self-Directed Enterprises: the Cure for Capitalism
“Socialism Sucks!” This blatant invective was hurled at me while I stood on a DC metro train reading Richard Wolff’s new book Understanding Socialism. I chuckled a bit, having heard this...
Kevin Gustafson · 15,353 views
"The Race to Alaska" Tests the Body, Mind and Boat
"The Race to Alaska" Tests the Body, Mind and Boat
A documentary on the annual 750 mile race from Washington to Alaska with no motors – just wind, ocean, and human spirit.
Olivia Louise · 210 views
Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat
Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat
Amos Miller’s private food club members say they don’t want their grass-fed meat treated with the chemical preservatives required by all USDA-approved processing plants
Sara Burrows · 412 views
Freedom is Tyranny: Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian in Anti-Free Speech Screed
Freedom is Tyranny: Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian in Anti-Free Speech Screed
We recently discussed the gathering of Democratic politicians and media figures at the University of Chicago to discuss how to better shape news, combat “disinformation,” and reeducate...
Johnathan Turley · 158 views
Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive With Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as 'Cannon Fodder'
Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive With Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as 'Cannon Fodder'
A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation...
Yuliy Dubovyk · 180 views
A Radical Approach to Psychedelics and Mental Health
A Radical Approach to Psychedelics and Mental Health
The so-called psychedelic renaissance is here. Proponents claim that the drugs can alleviate an array of psychological suffering. But while they try to gain medical acceptance, they...
Mike Pappas and Dimitri Mugianis · 4,735 views
Financial Crises and Socio-Economic Outlook in Three Documentaries
Financial Crises and Socio-Economic Outlook in Three Documentaries
1- Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Alpaslan Pasaoglu · 7,113 views
From Columbus to Enbridge: Colonial Exploitation Continues
From Columbus to Enbridge: Colonial Exploitation Continues
It's somehow fitting irony as Indigenous Day approaches on Oct. 11 — once known by another name — that a new Columbus is about to pump oil through Line 3, the last tar sands pipeline...
Winona Laduke · 2,332 views
Austin Is Ground Zero for a Different Kind of Neoliberalism | posted on 10.04.2021
Austin Is Ground Zero for a Different Kind of Neoliberalism | posted on 10.04.2021
Known for its quirky institutions, eccentric characters, and progressive culture, Austin’s famous “weirdness” has long masked a deeper commitment to neoliberalism — which has in turn...
JAMES RUSHING DANIEL · 237 views
5 Key Things to Know About the Pandora Papers
5 Key Things to Know About the Pandora Papers
These disclosures about how the world's wealthy and powerful hide their vast fortunes will hopefully turn up the heat on the politicians that maintain the wealth-hiding status quo.
Chuck Collins · 4,659 views
Realclimate: We Are Not Reaching 1.5ºC Earlier Than Previously Thought
Realclimate: We Are Not Reaching 1.5ºC Earlier Than Previously Thought
Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, and Piers Forster · 515 views
THE HISTORY OF POSTWAR FASCISM NEEDS TO BE RETOLD
THE HISTORY OF POSTWAR FASCISM NEEDS TO BE RETOLD
We need to revise the whitewashed versions of history that have given generations the false impression that fascism was specific to Europe and was defeated for good in World War II.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN · 191 views
The Use and Abuse of MMT
The Use and Abuse of MMT
Michael Hudson | Friday, April 10, 2020
Michael Hudson, Dirk Bezemer, Steve Keen and T.Sabri Öncü · 391 views
Firing Alan Greenspan
Firing Alan Greenspan
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2012
Michael Hudson · 177 views
Comrades & Cowboys
Comrades & Cowboys
September 30th, 2014 | The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Mark Lause · 91 views
Wishbone of the Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
Wishbone of the Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
The Labor and Working-Class History Association | November 27th, 2020
Mark Lause · 82 views
A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred
A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred
A little over six years ago now, I received a demand which asked me to use my influence and this publishing platform to help denounce someone. I read the demand with curiosity and a bit...
Rhyd Wildermuth · 5,193 views
Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — so Far
Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — so Far
The Green New Deal program has enormous potential to generate mass popular support. But absent real leverage from labor, it's likely to be continually watered down into a toothless...
Matt Huber · 152 views
As scientists have long predicted, warming is making heatwaves more deadly
As scientists have long predicted, warming is making heatwaves more deadly
Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.
DANA NUCCITELLI · 125 views
Take Me to Your Leader: the Rot of the American Ruling Class
Take Me to Your Leader: the Rot of the American Ruling Class
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
DOUG HENWOOD · 93 views
Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Hudson · 203 views
Finance Capitalism Versus Industrial Capitalism: the Rentier Resurgence and Takeover | Michael Hudson
Finance Capitalism Versus Industrial Capitalism: the Rentier Resurgence and Takeover | Michael Hudson
Published by Sage Journals
Michael Hudson · 169 views
The Wire and the World
The Wire and the World
A decade ago, The Wire series finale aired. The show was a Marxist's idea of what TV drama should be.
HELENA SHEEHAN, SHEAMUS SWEENEY · 96 views
So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed
So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed
The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the...
Ben Burgis · 6,570 views
Children of the Lie
Children of the Lie
Renowned clinical psychologist and social critic John F. Schumaker examines the growing power and influence of the lie in relation to ongoing reality erosion and various cultural trends...
John F. Schumaker · 8,205 views
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism
Some Theoretical Insights
Charisse Burden-Stelly · 148 views
Necropolitics, Social Fascism and Algorithmic Colonialism
Necropolitics, Social Fascism and Algorithmic Colonialism
Is the old world really dying while the new one struggles to be born? Or does it merely mutate, gorging on technology and the intensification of social fear?
Antoni Aguiló · 4,096 views
Will Slums Survive The Pandemic?
Will Slums Survive The Pandemic?
A look at some prominent super-slums around the world at risk of extinction due to Covid-19.
Awbuck Qandoe · 43 views
India-China And The Raw Animal Origins Of Border Disputes
India-China And The Raw Animal Origins Of Border Disputes
Our tendency to defend borders is linked to phenomena like lions in the jungle angrily tearing into each other for territorial domination and stray dogs ‘scent-marking’ their jurisdiction.
Awbuck Qandoe · 106 views
Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives
Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives
After decades on the defensive, the left has once again started to embrace positive visions of the future.
Corinna Burkhart, Nina Treu, and Matthias Schmelzer · 4,960 views
Pls Remove
Pls Remove
in process.
[email protected] · 97 views
Affluence Is Killing the Planet, Warn Scientists
Affluence Is Killing the Planet, Warn Scientists
Would you like to be rich? Chances are your answer is: “Yes! Who wouldn’t want to be rich?” Clearly, in societies where money can buy almost everything, being rich is generally perceived...
Julia K. Steinberger, Thomas Wiedmann and Manfred Lenzen · 4,553 views
A Working Definition of Racism
A Working Definition of Racism
1. Human beings are members of the same species. The term 'racism' is useful as a shorthand way of categorizing the systematic mistreatment experienced by people of color and Third world...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse · 7,230 views
Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies
Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies
Assume that all human beings desire warm, close relationships with each other. This is also true of you and of all other white people.    Assume that you are a regular white person...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse · 8,070 views
International Study Finds Consensual Nonmonogamy Can Be ‘Healthy’ Relationship Option - Media Relations
International Study Finds Consensual Nonmonogamy Can Be ‘Healthy’ Relationship Option - Media Relations
A new international study has found no evidence that consensual nonmonogamy (CNM) impacts life satisfaction or relationship quality with the primary partners in a romantically involved...
Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Western University · 79 views
Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like
Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like
“Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”
Madison Pauly · 3,976 views
We Are Rebels - Full Episodes Online
We Are Rebels - Full Episodes Online
WE ARE REBELS / DOCUMENTARY TV SERIES
Luca Bellino · 214 views
Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests
Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests
Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t fall for it — the lie of the outside...
Glenn Houlihan · 2,574 views
Believe in Yourself and You Will Make This World a Better Place
Believe in Yourself and You Will Make This World a Better Place
The more people I meet, the more I’m fascinated by the human being. It is exciting to hear people’s stories, their dreams, their problems and their concerns. You realize how amazingly...
Andrea María Portal Ruiz · 118 views
How to Fix the World
How to Fix the World
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us what’s important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature...
Laura Basu · 12,533 views
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
They say anxiety is us weaving conspiracy theories about ourselves. But what if those feelings are already there, and we are actually telling stories to support them? We weave stories...
Justice Bartlett · 6,969 views
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” - Albert Einstein Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type...
Bruce Parry · 1,805 views
Blueprint for a Beautiful World
Blueprint for a Beautiful World
A detailed plan to bring about a systemic change. Something You & I can do !
Nikhil Kulkarni · 82 views
Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents
Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents
For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially...
Peter Kalmus · 1,366 views
The Macroeconomic Effects of Student Debt Cancellation
The Macroeconomic Effects of Student Debt Cancellation
Among the more ambitious policies that have been proposed to address the problem of escalating student loan debt are various forms of debt cancellation. In this report, Scott Fullwiler...
Scott Fullwiler, Stephanie Kelton, Catherine Ruetschilin, and Marshall Steinbaum · 46 views
Review of Planet of the Humans: What They Get Right and the Environmentalists Get Wrong
Review of Planet of the Humans: What They Get Right and the Environmentalists Get Wrong
Planet of the Humans has stirred the resentment of many a climate crusader. Yesterday, the chair of the Sierra Club California Energy and Climate Committee instructed committee members...
Paul Fenn · 6,285 views
The Man From Katuah
The Man From Katuah
I am a man from Katuah, the Blue Ridge bioregion of the southern Appalachians. I am the living soil. I am land incarnate. I am the vine, the flower, and the thorn. I am its airspace and...
James True · 1,330 views
Changing the Way We Think About Ecocities
Changing the Way We Think About Ecocities
The way we understand ecocities needs radical change in order to ensure a sustainable future, akin to our ancestors realising the earth was round.
Dr Dominique Hes · 3,195 views
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
For the past few days, I’ve been enveloped in the recently released documentary, Planet of the Humans. After watching the film, I was left with many complex feelings. The overall tone is...
LaUra Schmidt · 8,462 views
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
"The writing is on the wall: Powerdown is inevitable. If we want any hope of achieving it peacefully, we’ve got to start shifting — minds and physical infrastructure — today."
Joanne Poyourow · 10,548 views
Movements Must Give Biden No Choice but to Move Left — as They've Done With Centrist Democrats in the Past
Movements Must Give Biden No Choice but to Move Left — as They've Done With Centrist Democrats in the Past
Movements forced progressive change under FDR and LBJ, but failed to move Obama. To change this country they must start pressuring Biden now.
Andy Bichlbaum · 1,556 views
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker · 2,229 views
Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax
Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax
In the midst of a global pandemic, conspiracy theorists have found yet another way to spread dangerous disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19, sowing seeds of doubts about its...
Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai · 6,821 views
Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose
Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose
Socialists say they either want to “realign” the Democratic Party or break with it entirely. But those aren’t political strategies — they are outcomes of political struggle. We need a...
Dustin Guastella · 1,275 views
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
You are not crazy, my friends
Julio Vincent Gambuto · 25,148 views
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected...
Guy Dauncey · 3,766 views
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short.  For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our economy—these bills offer too...
Michael Shuman · 1,338 views
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.
UBI.Earth · 1,625 views
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpoint between two apparent...
Raoul Martinez · 727 views
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 · 8,209 views
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 · 5,860 views
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...
Paul Gilding · 7,253 views
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...
Raoul Martinez · 1,128 views
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...
Michael Shuman · 9,711 views
"We" Are Not Humanity: A Refutation of the "Humanity is a Virus" Thesis
"We" Are Not Humanity: A Refutation of the "Humanity is a Virus" Thesis
As awareness spreads of the ecocidal consequences of our civilisation, I increasingly hear opinions to the effect that humanity is nothing but a plague, a parasite. A virus with shoes…
Shaun Chamberlin · 3,890 views
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 · 1,161 views
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 Schumaker · 4,465 views
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...
Michael Hudson · 5,223 views
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...
Lynn Ungar · 4,700 views
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 · 2,183 views
Turn The Peace Symbol Upright!
Turn The Peace Symbol Upright!
Nell Arnaud · 89 views
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...
A Feminist Future · 1,425 views
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 · 1,081 views
'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...
Paul K. Chappell · 928 views
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 · 3,033 views
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 · 6,134 views
Biden Is Showing Signs of Cognitive Decline. This Should Worry Anyone Who Wants to Beat Trump
Biden Is Showing Signs of Cognitive Decline. This Should Worry Anyone Who Wants to Beat Trump
"If these were just isolated incidents, perhaps they could be chalked up to lack of sleep or the side effect of some medication. But there’s a pattern here and we need to confront it if...
Justin Ward · 17,535 views
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 · 1,787 views
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 · 1,001 views
'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...
Jon Queally · 1,904 views
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 · 1,138 views
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 · 1,331 views
“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...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon · 2,675 views
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 · 2,101 views
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...
Center for Nonviolent Communication · 2,543 views
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...
Brendan Montague · 1,900 views
“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 · 1,020 views
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 · 2,879 views
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...
Joshua B. Grubbs · 1,309 views
Noam Chomsky: Sanders Threatens the Establishment by Inspiring Popular Movements
Noam Chomsky: Sanders Threatens the Establishment by Inspiring Popular Movements
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump for power abuses is winding down, with his acquittal all but ensured when the Senate reconvenes on Wednesday to vote on the articles of impeachment...
C.J. Polychroniou · 1,751 views
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 · 1,975 views
"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 · 12,693 views
Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat
Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat
As Bernie Sanders emerged as a threat to Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination in 2016, media began liberally tossing around articles equating Sanders and Donald Trump...
Julie Hollar · 1,198 views
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 · 2,578 views
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...
Prefigurology · 9,475 views
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...
Prefigurology · 9,030 views
Why You Should Take a Chance on the Socialist
Why You Should Take a Chance on the Socialist
The media is trying very hard to send a certain presidential campaign down the memory hole. They omit it from infographics. They decline to report its policy announcements (like the...
Paul Waters-Smith · 1,391 views
Why Trump Fears Bernie Sanders
Why Trump Fears Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Bernie Sanders show that he’s starting to realize something that still escapes most pundits: Sanders would be his toughest opponent to beat in November.
Luke Savage · 1,598 views
A Biden Nomination Means a Second Trump Term
A Biden Nomination Means a Second Trump Term
I remember when I began to feel dread that Donald Trump would win in 2016. It was when I saw Hillary Clinton shimmy in the first Presidential debate. Trump was managing to attack her...
Paul Waters-Smith · 2,926 views
The Limits of Capitalism
The Limits of Capitalism
At this point in human history, the limits of capitalism and the limits of our species’ life on Earth have converged. We have never been here before, and we cannot go back.
Laurie Adkin · 5,382 views
Boycotting Amazon Won't Work
Boycotting Amazon Won't Work
It will take real collective action — not just canceling your Prime subscription — to force the company to change its labor practices
Justin Ward · 2,604 views
Risk Rooted in Colonial Era Weighs on Bahamas Efforts to Rebuild After Hurricane Dorian
Risk Rooted in Colonial Era Weighs on Bahamas Efforts to Rebuild After Hurricane Dorian
When Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas on Sept. 1, 2019, it packed winds of up to 185 miles per hour and a 20-foot storm surge. A day later, it ravaged...
Jason von Meding, David Prevatt and Ksenia Chmutina · 1,045 views
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation
Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars to convince the public that they aren't responsible for climate breakdown. Is it a coincidence that climate skeptics believe and...
Union of Concerned Scientists · 4,639 views
Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments
Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments
In September of 2011, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis— a man who the best evidence suggested was innocent. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by...
Rob Urie · 9,015 views
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien · 7,906 views
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus · 1,807 views
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response...
Catherine Tumber · 2,108 views
The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed
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