Occupy at Two
In the new space that appears, however briefly, the old rules no longer apply.
social movements
Gus Speth: “What We’ve Got to Get Us Through is Each Other”
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
What If?
As I walked up the hill this morning to work a few hours in my family’s half-acre urban farm, my head was sore from a stampede of news: Syria in the crosshairs of the White House; economies swaying precariously like ten-foot stacks of Jenga blocks ready to fall; the open wound at Fukushima; the deepening trauma of unemployment around the country, and so on. When I arrived, I tried to discuss the latest with the green beans and winter squashes. They just politely changed the subject.
Time to Face Some Tough Academic Choices
Because of both forces—attacks pushing the university to the right, and faculty complacency—there’s not enough genuine critical thinking going on at UT, at a time in the world when multiple cascading crises—economic and ecological—demand a critical thinking that is tougher than ever.
Overcoming ‘Overburden’: The Climate Crisis and a Unified Left Agenda
It feels like this could be the beginning of the fight back we have all been waiting for, the one that will chase Harper from power and restore the power of working people in Canada.
“Nothing will change”
“Nothing will change” sounds like a tagline to Francis Fukuyama’s End of History, the celebration of ‘liberal democracy’ as the final evolution of human governance.
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake.
The Promise of the Commons
Bollier attributes the lack of awareness of the commons in the U.S. in part to our commercial media and political culture.
The legacy of the indignados
Much has been written about the indignados, what was new about them and what is, or will be, their legacy. It is time to acknowledge that the indignados have redefined how – and where! – we engage in politics.
Ivan Illich and the contemporary commons movement
Many Americans have not heard of the commons except in connection with the word “tragedy.”
The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
Since 2007, the foreclosure crisis has displaced at least 10 million people from more than four million homes across the country.
Criminalization of food sovereignty defenders: Old and new trends
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the tendency to persecute, punish and criminalize social protest activities and the legitimate claims of those who promote food sovereignty and defend connected human rights, especially in cases related to large-scale economic investment.