Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives

SoFA Coop Circle

Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity's Path to a Flourishing Future

It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.

Jeremy Lent

If I Die Before We Wake… This is for the Healers

Are you a healer who is trying to bring love and light into this world? If so, you might feel the way I do sometimes… in those moments of clarity about how big the forces of harm have become and that the darkness may last for the rest of your life and beyond. I write these...

Joe Brewer

Holding Space for Outrage

Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance

Heather Plett

The Coming Collapse + A Positive Course of Action

The United States and the global status quo are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Viewed from the scale of history we're milliseconds away.

11 min

The Transition

Are nations and capitalism still viable systems or are they nearing their end of life? If so, what comes next? How do we deal with climate change and biodiversity loss? How do we make sense of the world and figure out what's true to inform choices? Is humanity going to get...

103 min

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido is a powerful martial art developed throughout the mid 20th century by a Japanese named Morihei Ueshiba. Aikido differs from most other martial arts in that the practitioner seeks to achieve self-defense without injury to attackers.

Aikido Association of America

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Atlas of Utopias is part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation that demonstrate that another world is possible, and already exists.

Sol Trumbo and Nick Buxton

Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization

True tribalism is a societal balance point

Lothar

Is Catastrophe the Only Cure for the Weakness of Radical Politics?

If we want a future worthy of the name we need a different form of revolution.

Gregory Leffel

Will Cuba Become a Test Case for a Post-Postmodern Future?

Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.

Gregory Leffel

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn is an observer of the failure of modern civilization and an advocate of a return to tribal values. He explores this in his book Beyond Civilization: Humanity Next Great Adventure.

Alice Linsley

Martin Luther King Jr Supported a Guaranteed Basic Income

(The following is an excerpt from King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” — Part 5 of chapter 5 titled “Where Do We Go”) There is only one general proposal that I would like to examine here, because it deals with the abolition of poverty within this nation...

Matt Orfalea

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election of Trump. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social and traditional media, over dinner conversations, at the office and on the bus with complete strangers. And, as...

Kazu Haga

A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household

Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income

Paul Buchheit

Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead

When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...

Heather Plett

Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters

“Bernard? Oh yeah, he’s great. He was always the principles guy.”

Kazu Haga

Pro-Capitalist School Explains the Value of Understanding Marxism

Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.

10 min

How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country

Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War.

George Lakey

Exiting the Vampire Castle

We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take...

Mark Fisher

Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive

During the four days I spent in West Virginia, I was repeatedly thanked for coming to support teachers from out of state, though mostly people seemed a bit surprised that I cared. Perhaps it was because I arrived at the exact moment that most of the national media was leaving...

Kate Doyle Griffiths

We've Got Ninety-Nine Problems but the Root Is ONE

Political and ideological differences prevent us from seeing that our hopes and frustrations are interconnected.

Teodrose Fikre

Student Debt Cancellation a Viable Option, Economists Say

A new in-depth study on the consequences of canceling all student debt in the US shows that it would help the economy far more than it would cost. We talk to Stephanie Kelton, one of the study's co-authors.

19 min

Can Trump Supporters And Immigrants See Eye To Eye?

Trump supporters and immigrants come together to find middle ground. Together, they discuss President Trump's policies and media bias in portraying both sides.

16 min

Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online

A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett.

Tim Hjersted

A Surprising Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to combatting white supremacy and other harmful, extremist and violent ideologies. Obviously, the goal would not be to show them how following us will help them create a white ethnostate; it would be to...

Tim Hjersted

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places. To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with

Eric Bowers

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...

14 min

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto: A 15-Point Plan for Nurturing Children and Communities

Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children

Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...

Tim Hjersted

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

Good question. We can only speak from our experience from doing this work for many years, which is that men and women have different challenges and experiences of the world. We are all impacted by society (what some call ‘patriarchal culture’) but we are wounded in different...

Rebel Wisdom

How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System

The vast majority of Americans are fed up with money corrupting politics — but how do we fix it? We've got some ideas. Learn more and help make it happen at https://represent.us/action/thesolution-2/

6 min

Healing the Divine Masculine

There’s been much talk and publicity recently over the plight of women subjected to all kinds of domineering, humiliating and abusive behaviour from men. This situation needs healing for sure, for both women and men, and to do this we need to inquire deep within the problem.

Richard West

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?

Tim Hjersted

We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers

"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."

Teodrose Fikre

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and...

105 min

How We'll Earn Money in a Future without Jobs - Martin Ford

Machines that can think, learn and adapt are coming -- and that could mean that we humans will end up with significant unemployment. What should we do about it? In a straightforward talk about a controversial idea, futurist Martin Ford makes the case for separating income...

15 min

Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein

The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein

The Promise of a Million Utopias

This paper by Michael Shuman, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissione

Michael Shuman

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up.

Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?

Tim Hjersted

We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy

In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.

Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen

Learning on the Homefront

What comes to many people’s minds when they think of homeschooling? Granola-eating Hippies Christian missionaries Anarchists General weirdos

Mary MacLachlan

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation).

25 min

Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy

It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by offering them support and a community of other “formers.” From losing its government...

Sarah Freeman-Woolpert

Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics

This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...

Ejeris Dixon

The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny

A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.

Bethany Webster

On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking

Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase

Isla Greenwood

Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein

Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.

28 min

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

An inspiring declaration for our times.

5 min

When We Fight, We Win

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

CELDF

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative...

85 min

Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It

It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Films For Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters

Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a

Films For Action

Power to the City (2014)

Is it time to give more power to the cities? VPRO backlight explores the growing and innovative power of the city in Eindhoven, Seattle and Hamburg. Where governments are stuck in their own ambition and party politics, the cities are bubbling with energy, optimism and vigor...

49 min

Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica

Chasing economic growth gains us nothing but global warming. We should follow the lead of tiny Costa Rica, where life expectancy is soaring

Jason Hickel

The 150-Mile Wardrobe: a Solution for One of the World’S Most Polluting Industries

The Northern California Fibershed aims to skirt the rampant waste of resources in the apparel industry.

Araz Hachadourian

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world.

Films For Action

10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope

Despite endless capitalist greed and militarism, people are still fighting for a just world.

Nick Buxton

What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year

It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.

Hannah Alexander

Joe Rogan Interviews Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. Check out https://www.youtube.com/paulstamets

133 min

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