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Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
This moment of crisis is an opportunity to get the party on track. We should not squander it.
Alan Minsky
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
“Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?”
Pablo Solón
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
From utopia to reality: fare-free public transport in Brazil.
Daniel Santini
Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is
Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is
Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is.
Tim Hjersted
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
The multiple crises that humanity is facing are becoming increasingly visible: in the form of disasters related to ecological damage, the stark inequalities between a tiny minority of ultra-rich and the vast numbers of desperately poor, the health epidemics related to both...
Ashish Kothari
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW
Michael Moore
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of weakness, and in their wake, we have the opportunity to build something far more life-affirming. A...
Tim Hjersted
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
We must challenge the logic of empire and violence—both state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.
Tim Hjersted
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless wars—none of these can be addressed if the public is systematically misled about their causes or distracted by manufactured moral panics with little...
Films For Action
The Real Climate Scam Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
The Real Climate Scam Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisis—it sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.
Tim Hjersted
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
Les Leopold
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to...
Chris Hedges
The Movement We Need
The Movement We Need
It is my deepest desire to see the emergence of the movement we need right now—one that is open, welcoming, broad-based, strategic, and oriented to our core human needs, one that can gain the power to make this world more balanced, just, and kind.
Starhawk
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
If we want to build a broad-based movement, a regenerative movement that can heal and renew the world, a movement that attracts people as they really are, not just as we think they should be, a set of guiding principles can be helpful. Here are thirteen, to start with.
Starhawk
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
Trump’s mass deportation plan, though framed as a way to protect American jobs, actually helps corporations exploit workers and harms the U.S. economy. Here’s how: 🧵
Tim Hjersted
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
It's true.
Tim Hjersted
A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy
A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Throughout the history of our nation, this amendment has...
Keeling Baker
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
“Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view...
Richard Moser
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 that deserve a deeper dive.
Chuck Idelson
Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World
Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World
In a world marked by division, inequality, and growing despair, navigating daily life with integrity and purpose can feel overwhelming. Yet, even amid this brokenness, profound change is possible through acts of radical compassion.
Tim Hjersted
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
Chris Hedges
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
Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice
Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice
NOTE: In the days leading up to the election, NDN Collective was invited to participate and contribute to a video with other organizers and activists, calling upon the movement to “Vote Like a Radical,” inspired by the essay authored by April Rosenblum.
NDN Collective
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
This is a guide to think less like a voter and more like an activist.
Tim Hjersted
Not Voting In Protest Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Not Voting In Protest Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Strategic materialism + activism > symbolic protest at the ballot box or the couch.
Tim Hjersted
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
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
We are living through this generation's WW2 moment. What will we tell our children when war crimes, including the crime of collective punishment, was committed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people with the complicit support of the United States of America?
Tim Hjersted
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
"It’s one thing to criticize neoliberalism; it’s quite another to imagine that a fascist regime will provide better conditions for our movements to flourish."
Tim Hjersted
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
David Fridley, Richard Heinberg
The 98.96% Difference Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS
The 98.96% Difference Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS
Actual Roll Call Voting Records on 20 Issues That America Cares About
Richard Greene
A Strategy to Unite Green Party and Democratic Voters
A Strategy to Unite Green Party and Democratic Voters
A concerted campaign to vote Green in Red states and Blue in Swing-States could be the key to shaking up the political system and uniting progressives.
Tim Hjersted
The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical
The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical
The real extremists are the corporate and political elites who wear $5,000 suits and calmly explain why war, profit and greed are good on the evening news.
Tim Hjersted
The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy
The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy
Heard that old saying "democracy is the tyranny of the majority? It was propaganda invented by elites.
Tim Hjersted
The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
The tragedy of the theory that the U.S. government is manipulating hurricanes is that it redirects anti-establishment energy back towards support for the status quo.
Tim Hjersted
How Enemy Images Are Used to Manufacture Consent for Elite Agendas
How Enemy Images Are Used to Manufacture Consent for Elite Agendas
The rising tide of political extremism threatens to engulf us in a renewed wave of enemy images — immigrants painted as invaders, Muslims labeled as terrorists, and opponents branded as vermin. These narratives historically have served power, not humanity. Here's how we resist.
Tim Hjersted
Should Progressives Abandon Harris? Not If Getting an Arms Embargo Is Our Goal.
Should Progressives Abandon Harris? Not If Getting an Arms Embargo Is Our Goal.
Do the Democrats deserve to be abandoned for their complicity in supporting genocide? Absolutely. Is this a wise strategy, if getting a ceasefire and arms embargo is our goal? History and Trump suggests no. It will make the task far more difficult for our movements.
Tim Hjersted
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and suffer as a result, but will their ever be one iota of accountability?
Thom Hartmann
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
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
How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs...
Chris Hedges
The Cautious Case for Harris
The Cautious Case for Harris
A Kamala Harris presidency will not fundamentally change the neo-liberal status quo, but what wins can we get?
Vincent Pagliaccio
Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
"It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the Biden delegates in the convention hall responded with a crescendo of roaring admiration."
Norman Solomon
Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Democracy and Leading Us Towards Fascism
Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Democracy and Leading Us Towards Fascism
We need a human rights movement that challenges the orthodoxy of market capitalism, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Tim Hjersted
Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy
Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.~Matthew Desmond[1]The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because...
Yavor Tarinski
The Last Thing This Country Needed
The Last Thing This Country Needed
Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.
Branko Marcetic
You Saved Julian Assange
You Saved Julian Assange
After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
Chris Hedges
Nero’s Guests
Nero’s Guests
I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire...
Chris Hedges
Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
“We think these things that are happening across college campuses are a sideshow. No, they are the show. If we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever.” - CEO Alex Karp
Caitlin Johnstone
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending...
Norman Solomon
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist.
Chris Hedges
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza
On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective
Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner
Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner
The US military is presented as an institution that does protecting; defending; “saving.” But fundamentally, it is an institution of killing. Of mass killing. Throughout our country’s entire history there have been service members who could not grapple with that fact; who...
Mike Prysner
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
Martin Winiecki
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 wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and...
Unitarian Universalist Association
From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities
From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities
[C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic world—a meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens.~Murray...
Yavor Tarinski
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
As we enter Black History Month, it is important to understand how management race science was developed to divide and conquer the workforce as it struggled against long odds to form labor unions.
Les Leopold
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Charles Eisenstein
Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War
Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War
Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
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
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