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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 Sanderss 2020 campaign, argues that a key mistake of the campaign was Sanderss refusal to more forcefully articulate the contrasts between his record and Joe Bidens.
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 dont know what is happening. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. In this essay, I will...
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 businessesthe lifeblood of our economythese bills offer too little relief, too late. Im hopeful though that the states (and maybe, in some places, counties...
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, were 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 losebut 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, Mexicos new president has begun construction on2,700branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At apress...
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, food...
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 didnt know that a global pandemic of this scale was on...
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]239035...
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, its 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, theres 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, isnt 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 didnt 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 water or...
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 ones 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
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
This past weekend, a bright Georgetown undergraduate asked me how I squared my passion for localization with the theory of comparative advantage. For economics newbies, he was referring to David Ricardos argument that every community should find one product to specialize in...
Michael Shuman
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The pandemic, economic collapse and the governments response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US healthcare nonsystem and the economy. The government was able to...
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
NOTES FROM QUARANTINE
Josh Liveright
Building the New America
Building the New America
I: The American Reality America was founded on a dream. It was a dream that all people, from all the war-torn and disease-ridden corners of the earth, could come to this new-age Promised Land and build a common future side-by-side. It was half history, and half mythology...
Matthew R. Bishop
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...
Charles Eisenstein
30 Day Poetry Challenge
30 Day Poetry Challenge
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Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple fact: its low-wage workers that make our society run not bankers, landlords, or CEOs.
Mindy Isser
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, millionaires and billionaires, who have been key to oppressing the working class, are trying to position themselves as everyday Americans. We need to understand them for what they are: beneficiaries and key supporters of the capitalist...
Mike Pappas
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
A promising commons-based approach for the digital age.
Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel
Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy
Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our...
Parker Palmer
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
Our consumer culture is collective insanity and it's driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologistJohn F Schumaker.
John F Schumaker
No New Normal
No New Normal
May you live in interesting times." A curse once assigned Chinese origin, now thought to be apocryphal, is deceptively mild until you realize you have no resistance to a novel, viral load of interestingness. We feel like we cant blink, yet our eyelids are getting very heavy...
Stacco Troncoso
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
"We can call it a bailout. But this is so big it is more like Congress is creating a new government for our economy, replacing our old government. And this one doesn't have any meaningful democratic protections. A pandemic coup." Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law
Jake Johnson
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
An NYC physician on the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalisms complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We dont just need a new...
Mike Pappas
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Political
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Political
In 2008, they told us not to politicize the crash. We ended up with a decade of austerity. The coronavirus crisis will reshape the economy in profound ways now is the time to make socialist arguments about how to respond.
Grace Blakeley
Noam Chomsky: We Can't Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky: We Can't Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism
Note: This excerpt was adapted fromInternationalism or Extinctionby Noam Chomsky, edited by Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar and Paul Shannon. As the COVID-19 pandemic turns the global political and economic order on its head, two vastly different futures appear possible. At...
Noam Chomsky
Bernie Sanders Would Be Crazy to Drop Out Now. It Would Also Be Bad for Biden.
Bernie Sanders Would Be Crazy to Drop Out Now. It Would Also Be Bad for Biden.
Since Super Tuesday, one after the other, the arms of the corporate media and Democratic establishment have been calling for Bernie Sanders to drop out. While it is true that his path to victory has greatly narrowed (theres no sugarcoating it), right now is not the time for...
Saib Bilaval
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
The COVID-19 public health crisis is rapidly devolving into a vast, multi-faceted crisis of social reproduction with no end in sight. How can we seize this moment to build dual power?
Woodbine
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrows struggles for a post-capitalist world?
Max Haiven
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
Beautiful Troubles irreverent guide to activism in the time of pandemic
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. Americas debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but...
Michael Hudson
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center...
Lynn Ungar
Brother Richard Hendrick Wrote a Poem About the Coronavirus. It's Beautiful.
Brother Richard Hendrick Wrote a Poem About the Coronavirus. It's Beautiful.
Yes there is fear.
Richard Hendrick
Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
This bears repeating: Humans are not inherently toxic, sinfl or destructive. Humanity is not a cancer.
Tim Hjersted
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The coronavirus shutdown as a dress rehearsal for the reformation of late-capitalism to allow climate repair.
Eamonn Kelly
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
Frightening commentary has emerged among liberals committing to a protest-vote against both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Proponents argue that, in some undescribed way, their protest-vote will send to these front-runners the signal that they are not entitled to our...
Ariän El-Taher
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
Like all cult leaders, Trump fills a certain void for his followers. Stopping him means providing pathways to sustainable forms of spiritual fulfillment.
Michael Nagler