Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...

Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

How to get from here to there in the next 10 years

Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson

We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More

The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.

Chris Maisano

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...

Tim Hjersted

Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action

The following text is a translation of Marian Díez‘s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.

Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation

Internationalism or Extinction

Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.

Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar

'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders

"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."

Jon Queally

Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate

Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future.

Christopher D. Cook

Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: the Green New Deal

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

Every Challenge Can Be Overcome: 6 Ideas for Getting Started

There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do – now – to fight back against the attacks we know are coming.

Ed Goddard

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

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

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”

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

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?

It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.

Marjorie Kelly

Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.

Tim Hjersted

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

“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

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

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

“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

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 community is

JR Thorpe

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

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

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 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

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

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

This collection of articles from the Films For Action library looks at the tensions, disagreements and varying strategies within the anti-fascist movement from a variety of authors.

Films For Action

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)

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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