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Why I Never Moved to Portland
Why I Never Moved to Portland
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today
The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today
Politics is about bringing people together and taking democratic control of the spaces where we live
Aaron Vansintjan
How We Become the Social Safety Net
How We Become the Social Safety Net
Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs)
Max Borders
Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing
Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing
Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaboratives offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening on both sides of the Atlantic...
Isaiah J. Poole
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...
Prefigurology
What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?
What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?
Imagine you are born into a small community in which everyone knows each other. Your parents are valued in the community and are well supported. As a baby and young child, you are often held, carried, or wrapped against your mother or father, and they are very responsive to...
Eric Bowers
Towards a Synthesist Movement
Towards a Synthesist Movement
Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups
Max Borders
Trial Runs for Fascism Are in Full Flow
Trial Runs for Fascism Are in Full Flow
Babies in cages were no mistake by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Fintan O’Toole
Bulldoze the Business School
Bulldoze the Business School
Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, contribution or surplus) as you...
Martin Parker
Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm
Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm
Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen
‘Abolish ICE’ Doesn't Mean What Conservatives Say It Does
‘Abolish ICE’ Doesn't Mean What Conservatives Say It Does
Abolishing ICE is not about lawlessness or open borders but about upholding our constitutional principles of defending peoples freedom from big government, government overreach and racial discrimination
Cesar Vargas and Yesenia Mata
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism
For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
During the winter months of 2005-2006, several handfuls of people from numerous places throughout North America came together at two different locations to create The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship (Bemidji Statement). While much has been written in the...
Indigenous Environmental Network
7 Reasons Why We Should Have Open Borders
7 Reasons Why We Should Have Open Borders
Lets be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement at least for themselves.Aisha Dodwellexplains why we should extend it to everyone
Aisha Dodwell
In 'Stunning Indictment' ICE Officers Call for Own Agency to Be Dissolved Amid Growing Outrage Over Immigration Policy
In 'Stunning Indictment' ICE Officers Call for Own Agency to Be Dissolved Amid Growing Outrage Over Immigration Policy
"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."
Julia Conley
Calls to Abolish ICE Grow as Encampments Multiply Across United States
Calls to Abolish ICE Grow as Encampments Multiply Across United States
It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...
Shane Burley
The American Way of Tearing Families Apart
The American Way of Tearing Families Apart
Don Lash, author ofWhen the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, looks at the many U.S. policies past and present that have separated children from their parents.
Don Lash
Anarchism and Immigration
Anarchism and Immigration
You have the right to live where you choose. You have the right to work where you choose. You have the right to travel where you choose. You have the right to associate with whom you choose. You have the right to speak any language you choose. You have the right to...
Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
Anthropologists have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless,Europeans colonizing North America tried to civilize indigenous children in punitive boarding schools, unaware that Natives...
Reclaiming Youth International
Radical Municipalism: Fearless Cities
Radical Municipalism: Fearless Cities
Fear and uncertainty seem to have settled into our societies, not only among citizens, but also political leaders and transnational corporations who see their capitals and centres of power stagger in the face of the combined effects of slowing global economic growth, imminent...
Jenny Gellatly and Marcos Rivero
School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
I have never spoken with a school shooter, but Ive talked with many teenage boys and young men whothough behaviorally nonviolent themselvesemotionally connect with the anger, alienation, and hopelessness of school shooters.
Bruce E. Levine
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Toward a Liberation Psychology
The following is an excerpt fromGet Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite(Chelsea Green, 2011) by Bruce E. Levine. In this book, Levine describes how American institutions and culture have created a passive and defeated...
Bruce E. Levine
Bring Julian Assange Home
Bring Julian Assange Home
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
8 Reasons Young Americans Dont Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying effects...
Bruce E. Levine
The Political Significance of LSD
The Political Significance of LSD
The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.
Vikram Zutshi
Reveal, Remember and Resist: the Three Rs Remixed
Reveal, Remember and Resist: the Three Rs Remixed
Passivity in the young is an obstacle to social transformation. Lets teach kids to recognize and use their agency.
Leon Prescod
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
Its time to reclaim the mantle of Progress for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent
America’s Treatment of Palestinians Has Grown Horrendously Cruel
America’s Treatment of Palestinians Has Grown Horrendously Cruel
No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.
Razan Azzarkani
Beyond Trump: How the US Went off the Rails
Beyond Trump: How the US Went off the Rails
Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.
John Atcheson
The Coming Collapse
The Coming Collapse
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
Chris Hedges
Blaming the Victims of Israel's Gaza Massacre
Blaming the Victims of Israel's Gaza Massacre
To characterize Israeli violence as a response is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.
Gregory Shupak
Israel Repurposes Nakba Myths to Justify Today's Massacre in Gaza
Israel Repurposes Nakba Myths to Justify Today's Massacre in Gaza
The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered and their children to be starved.
Jonathan Cook
As World Condemns 'Appalling' Crimes, US Defends Israeli Massacre in Gaza and Blocks Call for UN Probe
As World Condemns 'Appalling' Crimes, US Defends Israeli Massacre in Gaza and Blocks Call for UN Probe
In contrast to White House refusal to condemn Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council denounced the massacre and slammed Israel for repeatedly violating international law
Jake Johnson
A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine
A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine
How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell
Tom Engelhardt
Gaza Killings: Names and Faces of Those Killed by Israeli Forces This Week
Gaza Killings: Names and Faces of Those Killed by Israeli Forces This Week
Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday, the deadliest day since 2014 war.
Middle East Eye Staff
Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism
Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism
As I have been called to action, more from Earth and Spirit than from world events, I found myself drawn into a deep exploration of my own Nature as an integral part of finding a compass in these times.
​Pat McCabe
The Ghosts of 'New Democrats' Are Haunting Us
The Ghosts of 'New Democrats' Are Haunting Us
Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.
Norman Solomon
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Is all inclusion good inclusion?
Toshio Meronek
Why I Stopped Seeking My Purpose
Why I Stopped Seeking My Purpose
And why I think you should also doit
Gustavo Tanaka
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by antifa, a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin
Five Ways to Transform Our Economies
Five Ways to Transform Our Economies
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert
Do We Have the Right to Financial Rebellion? a Conversation With Enric Duran
Do We Have the Right to Financial Rebellion? a Conversation With Enric Duran
We need to practice economic disobedience so that radical alternatives can flourish.
Niki Seth-Smith
The Strategic Naiveté of Antifa
The Strategic Naiveté of Antifa
Weve all heard the argument before: However nice the use of nonviolence may be, in the real world violence is necessary and ultimately more effective, so the thinking goes for challenging a brutal regime, fighting injustice or defending against an armed opponent. But what...
Molly Wallace
Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump's Retrograde Economic Vision
Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump's Retrograde Economic Vision
Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that hed become the greatest job president God ever created. His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would make America great again, by restoring waning coal and manufacturing...
Sarah Aziza
The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left
The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left
The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that advocated violence, was seen by my father and other clergy members who were involved in Vietnam anti-war protests as one of the most self-destructive forces on the left. These members of the clergy, many...
Chris Hedges
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
In late 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a dramatic warning to humanity over biodiversity loss due to overconsumption of resources. They agreed that if we continue business as usual, we'll shortly approach a point where it will be too late to shift...
Martin Winiecki
Deaths of Despair: How Inequality Kills
Deaths of Despair: How Inequality Kills
Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by greedy elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...
Alan Nasser
5 Signs That Trump’s Syria Threats are a Con
5 Signs That Trump’s Syria Threats are a Con
Let me present five signs of a hypocrisy, a fraud-in-the-making:
Sasha Abramsky
The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward
The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward
EricK.Wardis currently the executive director of Western States Center.Western States Centers mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic justice.
Eric Ward
We've Got Syria All Wrong and Backwards
We've Got Syria All Wrong and Backwards
In the park today I saw a teenager watching two little kids, one of whom apparently stole a piece of candy from the other. The teenager rushed up to the two of them, reprimanded one of them, and stole both of their bicycles. I felt like it was my turn to step in at that...
David Swanson
Missile Attack on Syria Is a Salute to 'Russiagate' Enthusiasts—Whether They Like It or Not
Missile Attack on Syria Is a Salute to 'Russiagate' Enthusiasts—Whether They Like It or Not
"The latest U.S. air attack on Russias close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus."
Norman Solomon
In 'Clear Violation of Domestic and International Law,' Trump Bombs Syria
In 'Clear Violation of Domestic and International Law,' Trump Bombs Syria
"Strikes against the Syrian regime without congressional input or authorization shows a contempt for the U.S Constitution and is without legal justification."
Jon Queally
U.S. Intelligence Officials Who Warned About False WMD Claims Before Iraq War Are Now Warning About Baseless Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims
U.S. Intelligence Officials Who Warned About False WMD Claims Before Iraq War Are Now Warning About Baseless Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims
In this memo to the White House, the Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity urge President Trump to get the evidence first before deciding to strike Syria.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III
Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III
This style of coverageenthusiastic about the moral need for violence but oblivious to its obvious consequencesinhibits the publics capacity to make sense of the extremely dangerous moment in which we are living.
Gregory Shupak
The Problem with Evil
The Problem with Evil
When we confront something we regard as evil, it poses a threat to the self-preservation of ego. We are so busy preserving our existence in the face of this threat that we cannot see the thing clearly at all. Chgyam Trungpa Sometimes in Q&A sessions or internet comments I...
Charles Eisenstein
I Don't Give a Damn About the First (Insert Identity Here) CEO or President
I Don't Give a Damn About the First (Insert Identity Here) CEO or President
Do you know what literally repulses me these days? Hearing about the first so and so to get accepted into the exclusive club of the aristocracy. Frankly, I dont give a damn about the latest first black president or first woman CEO. Who cares! I dont know how we have arrived...
Teodrose Fikre
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
We have already altered the planet and many have already been harmed byit.
Joe Brewer
29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See
29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See
These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government. It's all too easy to...
Tim Hjersted
#MeToo and Liberation for All
#MeToo and Liberation for All
I want to kiss you all over your smile.
Miki Kashtan