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One, Two, … Many Green New Deals: An Ecosocialist Roundtable

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Let us make of this precious opportunity the catalyst for a convergence of social movements, community initiatives, and new political vehicles in a mighty blow for the world we want, the world we deserve, and the world we will make!

The Green Party’s New Conversation: A Report from the US National Green Gathering

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Electoral engagement and social movements are the twin pillars of Green activism worldwide, and individual activists tend toward one or the other, but in their hearts most Greens I know see the combination of grassroots activism and the uphill struggle to defend democracy at the ballot box, especially in the United States, as complementary identities that lend each other synergy. 

Mariah Brennan Clegg

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Mariah Brennan Clegg is an incoming graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with plans to pursue the Interdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society focused on frontline climate resistance movements. She studied political theory at Williams College, where she completed independent study work in the area of public and counterpublic political engagement, and she spent her year abroad studying political and sociological theory at Oxford University. After a brief hiatus from academia, she returned to the classroom informally as a course auditor at UCSB. After attending Professor John Foran’s course “Climate Justice”, and being introduced to the concept for the first time, she began to explore ways to use film and creative writing to convey climate justice themes, and in 2015 she traveled to COP21 with other members of the Climate Justice Project to film the civil society response to the negotiations. Among other topics, she is interested in anarchism, Marxist Humanism, transgender studies, and prison ecology. She finds hope in soil-based environmentalisms, the ordinary-becoming-extraordinary, and death.

The Varieties of Hope

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No single thing, and quite possibly nothing at all, can get us out of the epic mess we’ve made this time.  Let’s stipulate that at the outset.  It’s pretty obvious that situations like “the Anthropocene” and “climate crisis” are here to stay. Yet try we must, and try we do. Let’s stipulate that too, at least for some of us.

Finding Pathways to a Better Future: Part 2, What We Might Try

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What lies in fact between or beyond direct action, prefigurative communities, and meaningful elections?  One idea that occurs to me (and has occurred to others, as well – see Micah White’s excellent The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution) is to combine electing some as yet unknown kind of “progressive” government and forging social movements to push it from below and alongside to make good on its promises, and for the new kind of parties that would lead such governments to make links with other movements, nations, and organizations everywhere.

Finding Pathways to a Better Future

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What if we rejected the binary between movement and party, elections and direct action, acted upon the urgency of the mandate for thinking in new ways, and embraced a creative synthesis of the two?  This essay will explore our predicament and the prospects for ways out of it along these lines.

Five Days that Shook My World, Part One: The Making of a Critical Thinking Community

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The big takeaway from a week of multiple epiphanies and new friendships was the product of the students’ imaginations themselves. They are seeking to model and scale up a form of patient and profound knowledge-building they call “critical thinking communities” (CTCs)…

The Current Crisis: Letter to a Comrade

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There are no party lines in our movements today, only a variety of proposals, tactics, strategies, memes, and other approaches to mobilization that we might choose from, and so far, while some have accomplished great things, we have yet to find the formula to empower this movement of movements as the force it must become.

The Twelve Days (and Months) of Climate Justice Day Eleven: The Search for a New Form of Politics (with a surprise ending)

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So below I offer my own thoughts on how to move closer to the worlds we want, based on much comparative reflection on the stories of people everywhere who have acted in the name of radical social change, which for me, means something like “deep transformation of a society”…