Videos by The Next System Project
Transforming Cities, Changing the System 6 min
6 min · The system is broken—so where do we start building a new one? Faced with interlocking ecological, economic, and political crises, local innovators are organizing at the city level to...
The Pluralist Commonwealth: A Vision of Economic Democracy 5 min
5 min · Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability would look like.
Right to Own: Giving Workers a Chance to Buy their Workplaces 2 min
2 min · Too often, when businesses are sold, workers pay the price. Our new policy proposal would guarantee workers a right of first refusal, giving them a chance to bring their workplaces under...
What Is Economic Democracy? 4 min
4 min · An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital.
What Is a Participatory Workplace? 2 min
2 min · How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next System...
Angela Glover Blackwell on Systemic Racism 3 min
3 min · In this powerful clip, PolicyLink's Angela Glover Blackwell connects today's unrelenting cases of police violence to systemic causes, underlining the urgency of systemic solutions. "You...
A Quick History Lesson about Race, Class, Prisons and You 4 min
4 min · MIT's Phil Thompson explains how the struggles against slavery and Jim Crow were not just about reaffirming human rights, but also about transforming the economy.
Economist Juliet Schor: We're In a Structural Crisis 2 min
2 min · Given the realities of the climate crisis, can we continue to try to grow our way out of economic inequality?
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next 4 min
4 min · Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is...
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