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Dr. Cornel West Finally Said What Americans Need to Hear - Here's Why
Dr. Cornel West Finally Said What Americans Need to Hear - Here's Why
Brother Doctor Cornel West finally said what needed to be said on CNN. The one narrative a neo-fascist liberal mediasphere can’t headline. Not in Venezuela. Not in Syria. Not in Yemen. Not in Tel-Aviv, Paris, the UK, or anywhere throughout the neo-liberal world. “We are...
Josh Adler
The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.
The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.
Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues – Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response
Alex S Vitale
May the Screams and Tears and Protests Shake the Very Conscience of This Nation
May the Screams and Tears and Protests Shake the Very Conscience of This Nation
No one wants to see their community burn. But the fires burning in Minneapolis, just like the fire burning in the spirits of so many marginalized Americans today, are a natural response to the trauma black communities have experienced, generation after generation.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Another Uprising Was Inevitable
Another Uprising Was Inevitable
This epidemic of racism is more prevalent, more real, more tangible than even a virus that is taking lives seemingly overnight. When do Black people get to rest, to be safe, to breathe?
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
How to Fix the World
How to Fix the World
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us what’s important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature. Shouldn’t those things be the pillars around which our societies are organised? The virus...
Laura Basu
'The Condor and the Eagle' Takes Flight
'The Condor and the Eagle' Takes Flight
From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the...
Linda Etchart
Forget "Looting." Capitalism Is the Real Robbery.
Forget "Looting." Capitalism Is the Real Robbery.
This morning the president of the United States threatened state-sanctioned murder in response to “looting,” laying bare the way in which white supremacy, capitalism and the state work together to violently repress people who defend Black life.
William C. Anderson
Let Yourself Grieve
Let Yourself Grieve
Whatever causes you grief, let yourself grieve. It is healing and necessary to feel the pain of the loss, whether we understand the fullness of its dimensions or not.
Anthony Rella
No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd's
No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd's
The uprising in response to George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer this week has led to predictable calls to condemn looting. But the real looting in our society comes from the military, the police, the pharmaceutical companies, private equity, the landlords...
Peter Gowan
Biodiversity Now!
Biodiversity Now!
Progressive International Council member Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley explore the dimensions of Europe's biodiversity crisis — and how the Green New Deal can address it.
Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley
Nobody Takes the Renewable Energy Transition Seriously
Nobody Takes the Renewable Energy Transition Seriously
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and regions that claim to be...
Richard Heinberg
A Degrowth Perspective on the Coronavirus Crisis
A Degrowth Perspective on the Coronavirus Crisis
The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects.
Degrowth Editorial Team
Post-Pandemic Development: a Ladakhi Perspective
Post-Pandemic Development: a Ladakhi Perspective
A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her village in Leh, Ladakh, by phone from Delhi. Around that time, the news of rising infections from the novel coronavirus coming in from...
Padma Rigzin
Beneath Conspiracy Theories, the Class War
Beneath Conspiracy Theories, the Class War
The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Aragorn Eloff
The Conspiracy Myth
The Conspiracy Myth
The other day I was amused to read a critique of The Coronation in which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein
If You Found That ‘Plandemic’ Video Convincing, Read This Too
If You Found That ‘Plandemic’ Video Convincing, Read This Too
There’s a video out there that claims to show a scientist being silenced by the government. I keep seeing people share it while saying things like “What do you think of this?” or “I don’t know if this is right, but it’s worth listening to.” If you want to learn more but are...
Beth Skwarecki
It Is Right to Take Time to Grieve
It Is Right to Take Time to Grieve
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing down my hurts and disappointments, my losses. Since the pandemic began, all the plans I’d made, all the things I’d finally given myself permission to get excited about, to invest money and energy in, to do what I wanted have been...
Anthony Rella
The Bizarre Blindspot in 'Planet of the Humans'
The Bizarre Blindspot in 'Planet of the Humans'
So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth?  Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now...
Craig Collins
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis
They say anxiety is us weaving conspiracy theories about ourselves. But what if those feelings are already there, and we are actually telling stories to support them? We weave stories to try to explain how something inhuman and awful could happen to us. We also need people...
Justice Bartlett
Student Debt Forgiveness: Let's Do Some Math
Student Debt Forgiveness: Let's Do Some Math
What would it cost to wipe out everybody’s student loans? The answer may surprise you.
Sparky Abraham
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in public services. Today, the forces best placed to exploit the coronavirus pandemic are...
Alex Doherty
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
The divide between the haves and the have nots has been highlighted by the impacts of the pandemic.[1] For those able to work online with a spacious and secure home base, and some financial resources to ride out the pandemic, life has mostly been tolerable. Consumption has...
David Holmgren
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” - Albert Einstein Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type of life they may have lived. It connects us with our bodies and senses, inviting us to feel...
Bruce Parry
A Healthcare Worker Answers Governor Cuomo
A Healthcare Worker Answers Governor Cuomo
Recent data out of New York City shows a large number of people with COVID-19 have largely been staying home. Governor Andrew Cuomo called this a “surprise.” But capitalism is forcing working-class people to spread the virus. A socialist doctor from New York explains the...
Mike Pappas
No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)
No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)
Why are real, meaningful apologies so few and far between? What have we internalized about the meaning of apologizing?
Teri Lynn
The Great Giving Up (and The Film that Made It Worse)
The Great Giving Up (and The Film that Made It Worse)
This is the final in a series on Planet of the Humans. The other posts are here:
Ketan Joshi
Our Coming Baptism by Fire
Our Coming Baptism by Fire
There is worse ahead. In acceptance, hope is transformed into energy for the unimaginable.
Chris Taylor
Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents
Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents
For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially what’s happening in my state, California: a quiet revolution awkwardly named community choice...
Peter Kalmus
The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses
The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
Kate Aronoff
Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery
A Poem Aflame
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
"In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.” - Arthur Martine
Tim Hjersted
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.
Marina Martinez
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Building a lifeboat culture is about taking action and preparing communities to be sustainable and functional in the face of a global, national or regional economic and environmental collapse. Unless we rapidly move through the stages of climate grief, from paralysis to...
Andrew Willner
What If We Stay Home? The Planet’s Future Depends on Mass Economic Disobedience
What If We Stay Home? The Planet’s Future Depends on Mass Economic Disobedience
Have you noticed the memes circulating about the end of normal?
Josh Adler
What Would We Do If There Was No One to Blame?
What Would We Do If There Was No One to Blame?
Bill Mckibben, Planet of the Humans, and the power we gain when we stop seeking villains
Tim Hjersted
Review of Planet of the Humans: What They Get Right and the Environmentalists Get Wrong
Review of Planet of the Humans: What They Get Right and the Environmentalists Get Wrong
Planet of the Humans has stirred the resentment of many a climate crusader. Yesterday, the chair of the Sierra Club California Energy and Climate Committee instructed committee members (I am one) not to “watch or promote” Planet of the Humans. Today, climate scientists called...
Paul Fenn
An Opportunity to Reconnect With Our Origins
An Opportunity to Reconnect With Our Origins
For generations, a variety of factors have weakened the traditional intergenerational socio-cultural structures of Indigenous people around the world.
Daniel Henryk Rasolt
Changing the Way We Think About Ecocities
Changing the Way We Think About Ecocities
The way we understand ecocities needs radical change in order to ensure a sustainable future, akin to our ancestors realising the earth was round.
Dr Dominique Hes
The Art of Exploiting a Pandemic: From Propaganda to Profit
The Art of Exploiting a Pandemic: From Propaganda to Profit
Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting the ongoing pandemic to benefit their public image and their bottom line. We must recognize and combat these efforts in order to fight the pandemic, directing resources to where...
Mike Pappas
The Miseducation of the American Boy
The Miseducation of the American Boy
Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity
Peggy Orenstein
The Furor & Failure of "Planet of the Humans" & It's Critics
The Furor & Failure of "Planet of the Humans" & It's Critics
Where Is a Really Big Picture View of Our Environmental Problems & Possible Solutions?
Sandyssanders
Normal Was Killing Us
Normal Was Killing Us
The first crisis point of the COVID-19 disaster was figuring out how to respond, after being caught flat-footed, to the immediate health threat. Now that the death curve in many places has begun to flatten and the scope of economic disaster is hitting home, we are approaching...
Cylvia Hayes
Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Economic Growth — and We’ll Be Better for It
Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Economic Growth — and We’ll Be Better for It
The end of growth will come one day, perhaps very soon, whether we’re ready or not. If we plan for and manage it, we could well wind up with greater well-being.
Richard Heinberg
New Study: Economic Growth Is Incompatible With Biodiversity Conservation
New Study: Economic Growth Is Incompatible With Biodiversity Conservation
A study involving more than 20 specialists in conservation ecology and ecological economics highlights the contradiction between economic growth and biodiversity conservation. Adopting limits to international trade in resources or reducing and sharing the work, are some of...
Robert Orzanna
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
For the past few days, I’ve been enveloped in the recently released documentary, Planet of the Humans. After watching the film, I was left with many complex feelings. The overall tone is dark and combative, and the ending that features suffering orangutans was torturous to...
LaUra Schmidt
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been...
Richard Heinberg
6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation
6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation
Overview I. Intro II. The problems ——#1. Misrepresenting ——
Ben Wehrman
Corona Crisis Reveals We Need Systemic, Not Just Individual Change
Corona Crisis Reveals We Need Systemic, Not Just Individual Change
Climate change is not your fault.
Peter Sinclair
Richard Heinberg's Review of Planet of the Humans
Richard Heinberg's Review of Planet of the Humans
A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film,
Richard Heinberg
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
"The writing is on the wall: Powerdown is inevitable. If we want any hope of achieving it peacefully, we’ve got to start shifting — minds and physical infrastructure — today."
Joanne Poyourow
Movements Must Give Biden No Choice but to Move Left — as They've Done With Centrist Democrats in the Past
Movements Must Give Biden No Choice but to Move Left — as They've Done With Centrist Democrats in the Past
Movements forced progressive change under FDR and LBJ, but failed to move Obama. To change this country they must start pressuring Biden now.
Andy Bichlbaum
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
With regular life on pause, we have a chance to stop and question the path we are taking at the deepest level.
Jason Angell
The Power of Disposable Time
The Power of Disposable Time
In a recent article called “Coronavirus Requires a Collective Response” by professor David Harvey, I was struck by the timeliness of his argument. Harvey quoted Karl Marx a bunch but I’m going to simply paraphrase. Marx claimed that any major project to change the world will...
Josh Liveright
One World 1 - A Survival Strategy for Humanity
One World 1 - A Survival Strategy for Humanity
"It’s time to design a global society that fits the biological and material constraints of earth and also fits the psychological, cultural, and developmental needs of diverse peoples worldwide."
Armando Davila
Films for Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.
Films For Action
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker
Forget About Planet of the Humans
Forget About Planet of the Humans
SHAME on these filmmakers for making a film like this, full of misinformation and disinformation, to intentionally depress audiences, and make them think there are no alternatives.
Neal Livingston
Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic
Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic
It can be refreshing to watch a true believer taking a deeper look at their own sacred cows. But in his rush to be open-minded about his long-cherished environmental beliefs, Jeff Gibbs has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. He lumps solar and wind power, which hold...
Timmon Wallis
Bill McKibben's Response to Planet of the Humans Documentary
Bill McKibben's Response to Planet of the Humans Documentary
A Youtube video emerged on Earth Day eve making charges about me and about 350.org — namely that I was a supporter of biomass energy, and that 350 and I were beholden to corporate funding, and have misled our supporters on the costs and trade-offs related to decarbonizing our...
Bill McKibben
Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax
Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax
In the midst of a global pandemic, conspiracy theorists have found yet another way to spread dangerous disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19, sowing seeds of doubts about its severity and denying the very existence of the pandemic.
Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
So you just watched Planet Of The Humans, and your spirits are feeling pretty crushed.
Tim Hjersted
What Happens in November
What Happens in November
In the fall of 2009, I interviewed a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz ghetto. As a young girl, she had seen her whole family lined up and executed by a Nazi firing squad in a spray of machine gun fire, alongside hundreds of the people she had grown up with.
Matthew R. Bishop
Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden
Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack...
John Halstead
Mourn and Organize!
Mourn and Organize!
We all love Joe Hill, but his famous piece of advice — “Don’t mourn, organize!” — is only half right. Given the state of the world today, with Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race and hundreds of thousands dead from the coronavirus, we ought to be doing both.
Liza Featherstone
Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose
Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose
Socialists say they either want to “realign” the Democratic Party or break with it entirely. But those aren’t political strategies — they are outcomes of political struggle. We need a way to develop working-class politics without condemning ourselves to third-party marginality.
Dustin Guastella
Voters Guide: Use Your Vote to Choose Your Opponent
Voters Guide: Use Your Vote to Choose Your Opponent
This guide explains why "year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the world we want. Voting alone won't do it, but "year-round activism + not voting" needlessly puts us at a tactical disadvantage. Spending 1 day to choose our political opponents for the...
Tim Hjersted
Biden Vs. Trump: Are We In or Out?
Biden Vs. Trump: Are We In or Out?
The next few months are decision time for the left.
Whitney Maxey
“It's Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”
“It's Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”
The United Electrical workers’ union and the Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to help nonunion workers organize during the coronavirus crisis. The goal: find workers who are already spoiling for a fight and help them win it.
Meagan Day and Mark Meinster
Coronavirus: the Need for a Progressive Internationalist Response
Coronavirus: the Need for a Progressive Internationalist Response
This pandemic health crisis exposes the injustices of the global economic order. It must be a turning point towards creating the systems, structures and policies that can always protect those who are marginalised and allow everyone to live with dignity.
TNI
The Tyranny of Decorum
The Tyranny of Decorum
David Sirota, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, argues that a key mistake of the campaign was Sanders’s refusal to more forcefully articulate the contrasts between his record and Joe Biden’s.
David Sirota
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
I've struggled to make sense of what is going on. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I don’t know what is happening. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. In this essay, I...
Martin Winiecki
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
You are not crazy, my friends
Julio Vincent Gambuto
Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking
Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking
Amid a horrific human tragedy of sickness and death, much of it taking place in hospitals staffed by brave but overworked and under-equipped doctors and nurses, we are all learning once again what it feels like when economic growth comes to a shuddering stop and the economy...
Richard Heinberg
How Iceland Is Already Using Its Wellbeing Framework in Tackling the Covid-19 Crisis
How Iceland Is Already Using Its Wellbeing Framework in Tackling the Covid-19 Crisis
This week a friend and colleague sent this written dialogue to me:
Dr. Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected constructive responses.
Guy Dauncey
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short.  For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our economy—these bills offer too little relief, too late.  I’m hopeful though that the states (and maybe, in some places...
Michael Shuman
Thich Nhat Hanh on Finding Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh on Finding Peace
The Power of Peace Humankind has become a very dangerous species. We need people who can sit still and be able to smile, who can walk peacefully. We need people like that in order to save us. Recently I was sitting with a group of children, and a boy named Tim was...
Thich Nhat Hanh
Solidarity Amid Pandemic! All Cultures of Resistance Films Now Free for Viewing From Your Home
Solidarity Amid Pandemic! All Cultures of Resistance Films Now Free for Viewing From Your Home
Dear friends, as coronavirus continues to spread across the globe and whole countries go into lockdown, we need solidarity and creative resistance now more than ever. At Cultures of Resistance Films, we’re joining an effort started by film festivals to make art free and...
Iara Lee
Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused With Surrender
Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused With Surrender
In these important battles we wage, we will often lose—but we must not give up.
Norman Solomon
A 10-Point Emergency Program to Tackle the Coronavirus Epidemic in the U.S.
A 10-Point Emergency Program to Tackle the Coronavirus Epidemic in the U.S.
We propose ten immediate measures to tackle the health emergency, address the immediate needs of working-class families, and provide, in the face of an inevitable economic fallout, basic income security and living conditions to the vast majority of the population.
Left Voice
Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism
Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism
While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press...
Ellen Brown
A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees
A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees
One of the most important things you can do to live a meaningful and rewarding life filled with vitality is to reclaim your emotions. When you reclaim your emotions you rescue yourself from the numb and deadening state of “fine” and from the dependence on alcohol, drugs...
Eric Bowers
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
As the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded across our globalised world, I found myself unsure of priorities in this time of pivotal change, even though I had been tracking information about Wuhan since January. Not because I didn’t know that a global pandemic of this scale was...
David Holmgren
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.
UBI.Earth
'The Impossible Has Already Happened': What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Hope
'The Impossible Has Already Happened': What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Hope
In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible.
Rebecca Solnit
Youth Leadership Gave Biden a "Cheat Sheet" for Winning the Support of Young Progressives
Youth Leadership Gave Biden a "Cheat Sheet" for Winning the Support of Young Progressives
Not all of them. But enough to potentially beat Trump.
Films For Action
A World With a $24 Minimum Wage
A World With a $24 Minimum Wage
If worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year today.
Dean Baker
Coronavirus Coverage on Films for Action
Coronavirus Coverage on Films For Action
We wanted to put all our Coronavirus coverage in one place, as a resource to share with friends and loved ones. The quality of our response is only as strong as the quality of our knowledge.   [ffa-repeater][horizontal]23903...
Films For Action
Unemployment Is Designed to Fail
Unemployment Is Designed to Fail
State Unemployment agencies have been charged with the grave task of salvaging an economy on the brink of collapse, theoretically through the emergency distribution of living wages and stipends.
Matthew R. Bishop
As Coronavirus Opens the Door to Big Changes, the Left's Most Attractive Vision Faces Pushback
As Coronavirus Opens the Door to Big Changes, the Left's Most Attractive Vision Faces Pushback
For many Americans, it’s time for a system change along the lines of the Nordic model. This has the political establishment deeply worried.
George Lakey
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous
In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpoint between two apparent extremes, with its aura of moderation, reasonableness and realism. After all, isn’t the truth...
Raoul Martinez
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
The pandemic is a testing ground for how to address the climate crisis, and vice-versa.
Nadia Colburn
Our Economic System Is on Life Support, But Who Are We Really Saving?
Our Economic System Is on Life Support, But Who Are We Really Saving?
Pumping new money into the economy without altering power relations will only exacerbate existing inequalities.
Laurie Macfarlane
2020: When the Great Disruption Began
2020: When the Great Disruption Began
“The last global crisis didn’t change the world. But this one could” - William Davies It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over...
Paul Gilding
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
Since April 1 in some parts of the world is a traditional day for playing tricks and elaborate jokes (mostly on one’s friends), I found myself musing about the world I would like to see and had some fun taking about five minutes to jot down the following list (without...
John Foran
Freedom and the Market
Freedom and the Market
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...
Raoul Martinez
Covid-19 Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change
Covid-19 Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change
A devastating problem crops up.
Elizabeth Sawin
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?
Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?
Jeremy Lent
5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis
5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis
The human tragedy of the coronavirus is immense. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected globally, and millions more have been affected. Whilst infectious disease has always been a part of the human experience, the expansion of industrial civilization...
Matt Mellen
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