Rebel Cities: These Community Wind Farms in Denmark and Scotland are Decentralising Power to the People
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
The future is bright for wind and renewables just about everywhere. Now it's a matter of people, and communities, recognizing and acting on that potential.
How Jackson, MI is Making the Economy Work for the People
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
Jackson, Mississippi, will be “the most radical city on the planet," Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the city's mayor, pledged at the People's Summit in Chicago, where he spoke last July after his landslide election win.
Bologna Again Takes Center Stage Resisting Fascism
By Steve Rushton, Occupy
Normalizing fascism is a global crisis. But through active municipalism, Coalizione Civica (Civic Coalition) is challenging Italy's far-right lurch.
In Warsaw, Right to the City Means Clean Air and Affordable Homes
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven by local issues.
Rebel Cities 1: Marielle Franco Presente!
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
Marielle was a leading light in Brazil's Feminist Spring, a new generation of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous women fighting back against Brazil's intensifying attacks against people of color, women, LGBT people and other oppressed communities.
“The Divide” Shows Inequality on the Big Screen
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today's capitalism.
Publicly Owned Energy Comes to London
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
A successful, publicly owned renewable energy company for London would not only give millions of people access to greener, cheaper energy. It would also demonstrate that privatization and profits aren't the only way we organize society.
Europe Needs a Plan B: Radical Political Change is Coming
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
For now, Plan B could be said to ask as many questions as it answers. What it makes clear, however, is that Europe as an economic and political structure will die unless radical change here happens fast.