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"We" Are Not Humanity: A Refutation of the "Humanity is a Virus" Thesis
"We" Are Not Humanity: A Refutation of the "Humanity is a Virus" Thesis
As awareness spreads of the ecocidal consequences of our civilisation, I increasingly hear opinions to the effect that humanity is nothing but a plague, a parasite. A virus with shoes…
Shaun Chamberlin
30 Day Poetry Challenge
30 Day Poetry Challenge
to Babalu Aye
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple fact: it’s 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 psychologist John 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 can’t blink, yet our eyelids are getting very...
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 capitalism’s complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We don’t 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
As the COVID-19 pandemic turns the global political and economic order on its head, two vastly different futures appear possible.
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 (there’s 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 tomorrow’s 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 Trouble’s 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. America’s 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
Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
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
Joe Biden Isn't the Safe Bet to Beat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders Is.
Joe Biden Isn't the Safe Bet to Beat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders Is.
Joe Biden is a weak candidate who is more likely to lose to Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders. The best chance we have at ousting Trump is voting for Sanders in the rest of the primaries.
Will Meyer and Ashwin Ravikumar
Agenda 21: the UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Agenda 21: the UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Virtually none of the outlandish claims about Agenda 21 are true. Yet, as with all such baseless propaganda, the hysteria over it has had the effect of poisoning any kind of rational discussion of the very real challenges we face — challenges that are essential to tackle...
Heidi Beirich
The One-Choice Election
The One-Choice Election
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Chris Hedges
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...
A Feminist Future
Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class
Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since his election.
Paul Street
Joe Biden Would Be Donald Trump's Dream Opponent
Joe Biden Would Be Donald Trump's Dream Opponent
Donald Trump had the perfect opponent in the 2016 election. Running as a populist billionaire taking on the Washington elite, he couldn’t have asked for a better rival in Hillary Clinton, who carried heavy political baggage and who, for many, personified the so-called...
Conor Lynch
The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism
The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.
Peter Bloom
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
We Are All One
We Are All One
Love, Peace and the Interconnection of All Life
Ebrajm
It's Medicare or Coronavirus-For-All
It's Medicare or Coronavirus-For-All
A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival
The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.
David Korten
Trump Vs. Sanders: a Concise Comparison for Voters (And Why Bernie Wins Hands Down)
Trump Vs. Sanders: a Concise Comparison for Voters (And Why Bernie Wins Hands Down)
When there is a conflict between big business and the public good, on labor rights, consumer rights, small taxpayer respect, and environmental protections, Bernie has stood with the people.
Ralph Nader
Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence
Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence
Nonviolence is not simply the absence of violence, but about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice, and working to repair the harm.
Kazu Haga
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
We must think, act and organize locally, while simultaneously cultivating a global vision and global solidarity.
Ronnie Cummins
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.
Chris Hedges
Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump's GOP
Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump's GOP
There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Roy Eidelson
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More
We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More
The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.
Chris Maisano
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
The following text is a translation of Marian Díez‘s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation
Internationalism or Extinction
Internationalism or Extinction
Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.
Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar
'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders
'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders
"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."
Jon Queally
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future.
Christopher D. Cook
Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: the Green New Deal
Why the Russian Petro-State Is Actually Terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: the Green New Deal
If millions of Americans started driving electric cars with Federal tax breaks and an end to gasoline subsidies, American petroleum demand would plummet.
Juan Cole
Every Challenge Can Be Overcome: 6 Ideas for Getting Started
Every Challenge Can Be Overcome: 6 Ideas for Getting Started
There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do – now – to fight back against the attacks we know are coming.
Ed Goddard
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He’s talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.
Jesse Jackson
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their...
David Swanson
On February 6th Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, or Why I Support Only Sanders
On February 6th Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, or Why I Support Only Sanders
Even if we elect a better-than-Trump, half-measures candidate, we're still not better off. Our grandchildren will curse us all the same.
Thomas Neuburger
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
Nonty Charity Sabic is cofounder of the international Rise Ubuntu Network, based on “ubuntu”, an indigenous South African philosophy that aims to teach and collectively remember the connection shared between humans and nature. Based in Barcelona, Sabic is involved in...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
Attention is like a spotlight—whatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert
The End of the Corporation?
The End of the Corporation?
It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.
Marjorie Kelly
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it. Innovating...
Daniel Christian Wahl
It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics
It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics
Ignore the usual fairytale. Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter
Jason Hickel
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as it's profitable.
Nicole M. Aschoff
Bernie Sanders Faces a Media Rigged Against Him
Bernie Sanders Faces a Media Rigged Against Him
CNN and CBS do it. NPR and PBS do it. They all do it.
Jeff Cohen
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