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Humanity in the patchwork of life

By Julia Steinberger, Medium.com

This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?

Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism

By Robert Raymond, Shareable

Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?

A Small Farm Future

Warriors and merchants

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

So I think there may still be further opportunities for merchant self-landlords to build more renewable and regenerative local economies within and against the structures of the warrior landlord state.

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Alone in a sea of marshmallows

By Inez Aponte, Growing Good Lives

We can collectively reclaim the daylight of our attention, our right to decide what matters and what we wish to tend to.

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The 1970s Again?

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Are the 2020s just like the 1970s? If only! If our problems now were on the same scale as they were then, we would have a much better chance of solving them.

Historic Decisions

Democracy Rising 21: Looking Deliberatively at the Past

By Joni Doherty, Resilience.org

In Teaching History for the Common Good, Keith C. Barton and Linda S. Levstik recognize that the past can be used “in a variety of ways, and for a variety of purposes.” One of these is to use history’s “potential to prepare students for participation in a pluralist democracy.”

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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 83 Margaret Klein Salamon

By Vicki Robin, Margaret Klein Salamon, Resilience.org

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund. She is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people to face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

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