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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household
A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Paul Buchheit
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...
Heather Plett
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
“Bernard? Oh yeah, he’s great. He was always the principles guy.”
Kazu Haga
Pro-Capitalist School Explains the Value of Understanding Marxism
Pro-Capitalist School Explains the Value of Understanding Marxism
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
10 min
How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country
How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country
Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War.
George Lakey
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Exiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take...
Mark Fisher
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive
During the four days I spent in West Virginia, I was repeatedly thanked for coming to support teachers from out of state, though mostly people seemed a bit surprised that I cared. Perhaps it was because I arrived at the exact moment that most of the national media was...
Kate Doyle Griffiths
We've Got Ninety-Nine Problems but the Root Is ONE
We've Got Ninety-Nine Problems but the Root Is ONE
Political and ideological differences prevent us from seeing that our hopes and frustrations are interconnected.
Teodrose Fikre
Student Debt Cancellation a Viable Option, Economists Say
Student Debt Cancellation a Viable Option, Economists Say
A new in-depth study on the consequences of canceling all student debt in the US shows that it would help the economy far more than it would cost. We talk to Stephanie Kelton, one of the study's co-authors.
19 min
Can Trump Supporters And Immigrants See Eye To Eye?
Can Trump Supporters And Immigrants See Eye To Eye?
Trump supporters and immigrants come together to find middle ground. Together, they discuss President Trump's policies and media bias in portraying both sides.
16 min
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett. 
Tim Hjersted
A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
"Influence is NOT about convincing people to want different things than they already want. It's about showing them that the way to get what they already want, is by following you." - Charlie Houpert Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to
Tim Hjersted
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places. To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with
Eric Bowers
The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value
The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value
“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...
14 min
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children
Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...
Tim Hjersted
Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?
Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?
Good question. We can only speak from our experience from doing this work for many years, which is that men and women have different challenges and experiences of the world. We are all impacted by society (what some call ‘patriarchal culture’) but we are wounded in different...
Rebel Wisdom
How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
The vast majority of Americans are fed up with money corrupting politics — but how do we fix it? We've got some ideas. Learn more and help make it happen at https://represent.us/action/thesolution-2/
6 min
Healing the Divine Masculine
Healing the Divine Masculine
There’s been much talk and publicity recently over the plight of women subjected to all kinds of domineering, humiliating and abusive behaviour from men. This situation needs healing for sure, for both women and men, and to do this we need to inquire deep within the problem.
Richard West
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?
Tim Hjersted
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."
Teodrose Fikre
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and...
105 min
How We'll Earn Money in a Future without Jobs - Martin Ford
How We'll Earn Money in a Future without Jobs - Martin Ford
Machines that can think, learn and adapt are coming -- and that could mean that we humans will end up with significant unemployment. What should we do about it? In a straightforward talk about a controversial idea, futurist Martin Ford makes the case for separating income...
15 min
Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein
Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein
The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein
The Promise of a Million Utopias
The Promise of a Million Utopias
This paper by Michael Shuman, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commission
Michael Shuman
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?
Tim Hjersted
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
Learning on the Homefront
Learning on the Homefront
What comes to many people’s minds when they think of homeschooling? Granola-eating Hippies Christian missionaries Anarchists General weirdos
Mary MacLachlan
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation
The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation). 
25 min
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by offering them support and a community of other “formers.” From losing its government...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...
Ejeris Dixon
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster
On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase
Isla Greenwood
Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein
Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein
Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.
28 min
My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
An inspiring declaration for our times. 
5 min
When We Fight, We Win
When We Fight, We Win
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
CELDF
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative...
85 min
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Films for Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Films For Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a
Films For Action
Power to the City
Power to the City (2014)
Is it time to give more power to the cities? VPRO backlight explores the growing and innovative power of the city in Eindhoven, Seattle and Hamburg. Where governments are stuck in their own ambition and party politics, the cities are bubbling with energy, optimism and vigor...
49 min
Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica
Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica
Chasing economic growth gains us nothing but global warming. We should follow the lead of tiny Costa Rica, where life expectancy is soaring
Jason Hickel
The 150-Mile Wardrobe: a Solution for One of the World’S Most Polluting Industries
The 150-Mile Wardrobe: a Solution for One of the World’S Most Polluting Industries
The Northern California Fibershed aims to skirt the rampant waste of resources in the apparel industry.
Araz Hachadourian
Films for Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world. 
Films For Action
10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope
10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope
Despite endless capitalist greed and militarism, people are still fighting for a just world.
Nick Buxton
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.
Hannah Alexander
Joe Rogan Interviews Paul Stamets
Joe Rogan Interviews Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. Check out https://www.youtube.com/paulstamets
133 min
Why Kaepernick Took a Knee (US Army Veteran, Nate Boyers)
Why Kaepernick Took a Knee (US Army Veteran, Nate Boyers)
This is their inspiring story of what can happen when people with different perspectives decide to sit down, have a conversation, and hear each other out.
2 min
Changing How We Think About Change
Changing How We Think About Change
“The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and it’s never going to work” This is the bold statement Deborah Frieze offers as she opens her TEDx talk. In this wonderful video, Deborah offers us a new map for navigating the potential for transformative...
Ash Buchanan
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
A Vision for Revolution — Join the People's Congress of Resistance
A Vision for Revolution — Join the People's Congress of Resistance
Read the Manifesto "Society for the Many: A Vision for Revolution"
2 min
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting — namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Tips for Building Coalitions
Tips for Building Coalitions
How do we build alliances across our varied agendas so as to have the greatest impact? And how do we involve what I call TWANYAS (Those Who Are Not Yet Activists) -- those who care, but have-not yet come forward?
Joyce S. Herman
Reparations From Historical Slavery Could Be Used to End Modern Slavery
Reparations From Historical Slavery Could Be Used to End Modern Slavery
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Nathan Heller
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
This Stunning Home, Built of Mud, Connects the Inside with the Outside
This Stunning Home, Built of Mud, Connects the Inside with the Outside
'Kids play with mud. They build sandcastles. It's like building your own little fortress. It's not rocket science.' Ross and Kathryn decided that they were not going to get into debt buying a big house. Instead, they spent a year building it themselves. They made use of...
2 min