What is the Debt Ceiling?
The debt ceiling is proof that war is not working. We cannot afford it. We have the capacity for complex problem solving, lets finally prove it.
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Binna Choi of the Casco Art Institute: Curating Art through Commoning
Choi has brought the ethic and practices of commoning to the creation of art and its exhibition. She and her colleagues have embraced commoning as an organizing principle for how a diverse team of artists can make art and work together.
Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
The near future is one of grave uncertainty and instability as the new global monetary regime takes shape.
Towards cooperative commonwealth: Transition in a perilous century
Changing the priorities, policies, and rules to preserve the commonwealth of all beings of the earth rather than the private wealth of the few is possible, but it is not guaranteed.
”We shouldn’t be afraid of involving businesses”: Doughnut Economics in Brussels
Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions.
What’s Wrong with Investing Your Environmental Values?
IRA projects and those climate-related provisions attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and the CHIPS and Science Acts are evidence of the economic and environmental benefits of a transition to a low-carbon economy.
Where ‘levelling up’ funds go doesn’t matter. They aren’t supposed to work
One centralised Parliament is much easier for the likes of Rupert Murdoch to influence than a plethora of local authorities at a scale small enough for people to actually meet up and discuss their needs in person.
Ecomodernism On Its Own Terms
This article is an attempt to seriously engage with socialist ecomodernism in a way the interview failed to do with degrowth: on its own terms.
Top 1% grab twice as much new wealth as everyone else combined
The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report today.
What Price “Defense”? (How about we fund climate change defense, instead?)
Overspending on the military will only dig humanity deeper into a hole that will be ever more difficult to get out of in the relatively short time available to us.
What guerilla urbanism can teach us about saving our own cities
Tactical Urbanist’s Guide defines guerilla urbanism as “a city, organizational, and/or citizen-led approach to neighborhood building using short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions to catalyze long-term change.”
Dare to struggle, dare to win
To rebuild the trade union movement, to meaningfully defend the right to strike, and to begin a serious fightback against the imposition of the costs of capitalism’s crisis on the working class, we need to put our energy into workplace and community organising
