Sharing: Direct Action for the new economy
The system is clearly broken and the game needs to be changed: We need a new blueprint for the economy and a new infrastructure and culture to support it.
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Agency on Demand? Holmgren, Hopkins, and the Historical Problem of Agency
All these questions are questions of agency: to what extent, if any, can humans be purposeful agents of historical change. This question, I will suggest, has up to now been given something like a free pass in much post-carbon discourse, for reasons that I will explain in depth later.
Postcards from a horizontal world
The greatest problem we have is that we can’t imagine any alternative. And that is the challenge: to invent, create and think as if we were living just after the collapse, if there is a collapse of capitalism, and how we will organize.
Green Bans, Red Unions: Review
Considering the depth of opposition and the potential for such movements to intervene into ongoing debates about fuel poverty and sustainable economic development, it is useful to pause and consider what and who might actually be able to stop fracking.
Alternative horizons – understanding Occupy’s politics
For us, the misunderstanding of Occupy-style politics concerns the criteria by which Occupy-style movements are measured.
The politics of bread
Spurred by the fall of the Paris Commune, Kropotkin believed fervently that social transformation that dealt in ideals alone was destined to fail. A new society, he stressed, must be built on its ability to provide sustenance for all. More than a century later, bread is still the trigger for, and the stuff of, revolution and revolutionary metaphor.
Victims no longer: Spain’s anti-eviction movement
For over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis through grassroots organising and direct action. To this day the movement has prevented over 800 evictions across the country. Here Carlos Delclós interviews PAH activist Elvi Mármol.
The Poverty of Capitalism: roundtable
It’s as if you have a terrible heart attack and surgery, you’ve just come out of intensive care and the doctor says there’s no need to change anything of your previous life, don’t exercise much and keep up your intake of fatty foods!
Fierceness and Forgiveness: Mandela’s Greatest Legacy
Since my teen years, I have looked to the anti-apartheid movement as clear evidence that humanity – when it comes together and stands bravely and prays with its heart and sings with its soul – can overcome the greatest oppression.
Improving Democracy Through Deliberation
The difficulties that relate to modern democracy probably start with the use of that term.
Black Friday strikes back with ‘freedom to shop’
Apparently, somebody in the retail industry was also worried that protests would cut into their sales.
The Incredible Edible: Ten Steps
After five years of austerity and with more to come, the need to rethink local economies is more pressing than ever.