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Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
The latest UN climate talks,known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as climate villains
Nicholas Beuret
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
Iam constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced understanding...
Teodrose Fikre
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. Mine, not yours, a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...
Steve Dubb
Old Mother Forest
Old Mother Forest
I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy thats baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years Ive been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...
Suprabha Seshan
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
The World We're Creating: Metamodern Philanthropy and Social Transformation
The World We're Creating: Metamodern Philanthropy and Social Transformation
we lack an overarching narrative to connect the many smaller ones: a powerful meta-narrative to serve as a new foundation for our shared symbol world that we are all co-authors of. This book has been written in search of such a narrative.Tomas Bjorkman, The World We Create...
Brent Cooper
Dealing With Painful Emotions
Dealing With Painful Emotions
I have felt that learning to deal with painful emotional states is one of the most important aspects of growth. It affects our love relationships and how we deal with the inevitable disappointments, losses and rejections that life brings. It also determines our ability to...
Krishnananda
Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.
Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.
Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma(thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts.
Eric Bowers
We Did It! - 2018 Fundraising Goal Reached!
We Did It! - 2018 Fundraising Goal Reached!
Thanks to 251amazing people, we hit our fundraising goal for 2018!
Tim Hjersted
Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working
Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working
Threats of global catastrophe wont move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal.
Charles Eisenstein
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.
Jason Hickel
A Prayer for 2019
A Prayer for 2019
Or Whatever Number You Choose
Josh Liveright
Here’s a Better Way to Argue about Climate Change
Here’s a Better Way to Argue about Climate Change
I recently got an email from a friend, asking me to take a look at an alternative way of thinking about greenhouse gases. He forwarded a link to a long scroll of a webpage dense with text. My friend said he hardly understood it beyond the fact that it refutes the science of...
Nathanael Johnson
Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind
Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind
Science and spirituality are mutually illuminating, and mutually dependent.
Satish Kumar
Want to Change the World? Try Grounded Optimism
Want to Change the World? Try Grounded Optimism
One of the most powerful things you can to do to change the world is to cultivate your own optimism. To quote futuristAlex Steffen:
Sally Bolger
The Public Ownership Solution
The Public Ownership Solution
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded and democratized.
Thomas M. Hanna
An Anarchist Guide to Christmas
An Anarchist Guide to Christmas
Can we reclaim Christmas for the masses?
Ruth Kinna
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.
Tabita Green
The Everyday Power of Movement Activism
The Everyday Power of Movement Activism
Activism is normal; whats strange is that we dont see it that way.
Laurence Cox
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
In front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Howard Zinn Book Festival in San Francisco earlier this month, historianMark Bray and I debatedthe value of using violence to quell the growth of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Anti-racism trainer Molly McClure was the moderator.
George Lakey
Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode
Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode
On the great vanishing happening before our eyes
Subhankar Banerjee
We Have Been Groomed to Consume
We Have Been Groomed to Consume
With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family...
Anja Lyngbaek
The State of the Spirit, 2018
The State of the Spirit, 2018
1. The State of the Spirit, 2018
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Elements of the Democratic Economy: Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Elements of the Democratic Economy: Employee Stock Ownership Plan
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) enables full or partial ownership of a business by its employees through a pension plan or trust.
Stephanie Geller
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Hi everyone. This might be another one of those serious posts, so please take a few deep breaths and eat some dark chocolate. While perusing an online group, I witnessed a conversation between several colleagues, and it was disheartening. A difference of perspectives led to...
Vu Le
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why dont we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at the heart of the problem.
John F. Schumaker
The Case Against Police Brutality: Towards Radical Social Transformation
The Case Against Police Brutality: Towards Radical Social Transformation
[T]he biggest enemy of societys security is the state and the private organizations belonging to it. Selma Irmak, member of the Democratic Society Congress[1] Introduction Police arbitrariness and impunity are a common trait across the world. In the U.S. the systemic...
Yavor Tarinski
The Turn Towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
The Turn Towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A.
William I. Robinson
The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What's Next Is up to Us
The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What's Next Is up to Us
Ted Franklin argues that climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.
Ted Franklin
If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him
If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him
When we allow ourselves to fall victim to hatred, we are doing our opponents work for them.
Susan L. Rhodes and Charles R. Schwenk
Degrowth Is the Radical Post-Brexit Future the UK Needs
Degrowth Is the Radical Post-Brexit Future the UK Needs
As the Brexit negotiations wrap up and Theresa Mays deal is lambasted by Remainers and Leavers alike, its still far from clear what the future holds for the United Kingdom. On March 29 2019, it is due to leave the European Union.
Joe Herbert, Newcastle University
To Restore Our Soils, Feed the Microbes
To Restore Our Soils, Feed the Microbes
Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, weve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.
Matthew Wallenstein
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against whats good for people and the planet.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence
Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence
[Note: This essay was just published in the Fall 2019 theology journal, "Oneing," by Fr. Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation. To order a copy, visit: www.cac.org]
Rev. John Dear
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency
Richard Smith
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITIONIndigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather rain, wind, fire itself reacts against...
Indigenous Environmental Network
We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.
We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.
First, you have to admit that you have a problem... Hi there. If you are here, it is probably because you have come to the conclusion that our political system is no longer fixable by ordinary means and that some sort ofdeep structuralchanges need to be made. If you still...
Jordan Hall
Want to End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting 'Bad Men" Isn't Enough
Want to End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting 'Bad Men" Isn't Enough
The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.
Emily Peck
How Would Mother Jones Eulogize George H.W. Bush?
How Would Mother Jones Eulogize George H.W. Bush?
Mother Jones would have us pray for George H.W. Bush, who died at age 94, but also for his victims, many of whom, children included, were buried without pomp, or were simply disappeared
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
The Trouble With Saying 'It's Okay to Be White'
The Trouble With Saying 'It's Okay to Be White'
The Its okay to be white poster campaign, seen in the context of reacting to Black Lives Matter, cannot be seen as benign.
Matthew Flisfeder
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicidearemore common among male and female physicians, with suicide rates 1.41 and 2.27 times greater than that of the general male and female populations...
Dr. Michael Pappas
Military “Service” Serves the Ruling Class
Military “Service” Serves the Ruling Class
One cannot serve both the one percent and the 99 percent as their interests are at odds with each other. Although many join for righteous reasons, actions speak louder than intentions. Actions of the U.S. military has always been death, destruction, anguish of the working...
Will Griffin
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about whats unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species? Our era has been dubbed theAnthropocenebecause for the first time we humans are...
Frances Moore Lappé
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges
Nationalism and Its Contradictions
Nationalism and Its Contradictions
Allow me to begin by stating an anthropological and genetic fact. Any conversation about so called American nationalism must begin with the story of human migration itself, which is a story that started in Africa: the one place where all humanity can affirm a shared genesis...
George Cassidy Payne
Want Change? Take the Outside View
Want Change? Take the Outside View
The Outside View is a new way to look at the world. To realise the cultural simulations we live with and work to change them.
Julyan Davey
The Proud Boys Are Imploding
The Proud Boys Are Imploding
The extremist gangs leader is trying to bail, its members are in jail, and the FBI is on its tail.
Andy Campbell
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.
Frances Lee
Democratic Party "Leadership" Is Upside Down
Democratic Party "Leadership" Is Upside Down
No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles.
Norman Solomon
It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism
It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism
When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.
George Lakey
Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism
Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism
"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both Obama...
Colin Jenkins
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they cant justify it, its illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I dont really understand anarchism as being much more than that. Noam Chomsky On...
Bruce E. Levine
Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?
Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?
Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
Sarah B Shear
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to bereduced to net...
George Monbiot
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
Fall leaves are not a nuisance. Theyre part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do [] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD IDO? R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Crucifying Julian Assange
Crucifying Julian Assange
What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.
Chris Hedges
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
Theres nothing they need, nothing they dont own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a hilarious inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry...
George Monbiot
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automaticwe have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
This Facebook Post about the Kansas Midterms is Going Viral
This Facebook Post about the Kansas Midterms is Going Viral
121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.
Davis Hammet