Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– How the Occupy Movement Changed Urban Government
– Tweetin’ ’Bout a Revolution
– Richard Reich: The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class
– How a Tragic Soccer Riot May Have Revived the Egyptian Revolution
– Chris Hedges and the black bloc
The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.
The next Marx will produce not a manifesto for the middle class. Rather, the new synthesis will fuse economics and environmentalism in a way that fundamentally reorients both disciplines. Marx pioneered political economy; Marx 2.0 will pioneer planetary economy. It’s not just about greening capitalism, as if enough solar cells and Prii will save the world. Our current economic system has reached its planetary limit.
– Put planet and its people at the core of sustainable development, urges report
– UN panel aims for ‘a future worth choosing’
– UN paints bleak picture of sustainability
– U.N. pitches Rio+20 talks as a departure from political strife over climate change
Climate-change calamities, devastating for those affected, have important implications for how we think about the role of government in our future. During natural disasters, society regularly turns to the state for help, which means such immediate crises are a much-needed reminder of just how important a functional big government turns out to be to our survival.
Two new books on the Occupy movement, reviewed by Transition Voice’s Erik Curren.
Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently claimed in an open letter, then I and many others will wear the label proudly.
A day of hard rain and wind could not dampen the spirits of activists representing the 99% as they gathered at Justin Herman Plaza (dubbed Bradley Manning Plaza by locals) in San Francisco on Friday, January 20th, 2012, to mark the dark anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision with a day of action. Organized by a coalition of over 55 Bay Area organizations and dozens of OccupySF affinity groups, protestors disrupted business as usual with demands that banks end predatory evictions and foreclosures and that corporations lose the rights of personhood.
– Could Ecuador Be the Most Radical and Exciting Place on Earth?
– El Mundo: Cómo bajar de marcha sin perder el tren
– Le “Peak Everything” (ou la fin des haricots)
– New York Times writer Andrew Revkin on climate change: “Occupy wherever you are to help us have a smarter relationship with energy”
– You Got To Move: Stories of Change in the South (documentary on Highlander Folk School)
– My Path To Transition Organizing
– Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
– YES Magazine: Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable
– Wall Street Journal: The New American Divide
– SOPA, PIPA Stalled: Meet the OPEN Act
– Bill Moyers is back: Crony Capitalism
– The Occupy movement in London: three months on
– Occupy Wall Street’s Next Phase: Avoid Cooptation in Election Season
– 2002-2012: Remembering the Social Movements that Reimagined Argentina
– Goodbye Lenin?
This Wednesday afternoon, the Obama administration rejected the permit for Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile oil pipeline that would have run from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is a huge victory for the grassroots climate movement. While the fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline is over for now, the political battle over the consequences of Obama’s decision is just beginning. Big Oil front groups like the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are already spending millions of dollars on TV ads to bash the President over Keystone XL.
