Two Bite-sized Reflections for Thanksgiving and the Holidays
It’s almost Thanksgiving here in the US, and the official start, globally, of the holiday shopping season. But, of course, COVID is raging, and lots will be different this season.
Society
Camp Mni Luzahan launches community Covid-19 testing
Keeping the patrol, the camp, the meals, the sobriety, and the testing in the hands of Native community members is “innovative and grassrootsy,” but at the same time it’s all part of the promise forebearers made to keep the peace when they signed the treaties, Angel notes.
Nature on the ballot and the ‘parliament of things’
What we may not realize is that nature is always on the ballot everywhere. But our awareness of that fact is only now bubbling to the surface of political consciousness.
Making America ungovernable
Adaptation will require leadership and social cohesion. Instead, America may be lurching toward further political division and violence.
Graphic Novel Review: 10 Billion is a sci-fi tale of astonishing scope and visual imagination
10 Billion vividly reimagines Greer’s blog post as a graphic novel. Told and illustrated in an immersive comic book style, it gives potent visual form to the original text.
Explainer: Cooperatives in North and East Syria – developing a new economy
What defines a cooperative, as compared to a privately owned business, is that it is owned by those who work in it. Cooperatives seek profit, but distribute it among the members.
City Repair
Start with wherever they’re able to get to start to say yes. And then you get to the next yes. And the next yes. Until the process begins.
Decolonising the Curriculum? Reflecting on Possibilities and Contradictions at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
History matters. Black History Matters and it shapes the present and the future. That is one of the primary premises of the movement to ‘decolonise the curriculum’.
Decent Gov Now
Participatory, local democracy is the solution to our systemic issues. There is clear economic, social and political evidence that a Covid recovery plan towards a green economy is the only logical way forward.
Authenticity
Why is it that “authenticity” must be stressed and supported? What is it in our culture that makes honesty special – in need of vital resuscitation? Does no one else see it as strange?
Bolivia’s new Vice President David Choquehuanca called the brotherhood to unity
We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 23 Vanessa Andreotti
Vanessa is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and “In Earth’s CARE”, an international network of Indigenous communities located mostly in Canada and Latin America.
Vanessa provides her insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
