A Pandemic Pivot

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus

If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time.

How the global coronavirus stimulus could put Paris Agreement on track

By Marina Andrijevic, Joeri Rogelj, Carbon Brief

In our new analysis, published as a “policy forum” paper in the journal Science, we show that an opportunity for getting on a path to a 1.5C world can be seized if just a fraction of Covid-19 fiscal stimulus is invested annually in a “climate-positive” recovery.

A debt reckoning is unavoidable — will activists seize the moment?

By Aaron Karp, Waging Nonviolence and Resistance Studies

These crises offer a vivid illustration of the cruel nature of elite rule and expose economic myths that have long convinced everyday people that their deprivation is inevitable. There is an opportunity here to open up space for a new society to emerge. Activists must seize it.

The Conservatives are shrinking the state – to make room for money and privilege

By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog

The question that divides left from right should no longer be “how big is the state?”, but “to whom should its powers be devolved?”.

Transforming democracy in times of crisis

By Kirstie Crail, Transnational Institute

Can this crisis provide a window of opportunity to re-organize and shift power to build radical democratic systems that genuinely care for the environment and our collective well-being?

Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

By Vandana Shiva, Independent Science News

The biome and the virome are us. When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves.

Basic income could virtually eliminate poverty in the United Kingdom at a cost of £67 billion per year

By Karl Widerquist, Open Democracy

Universal Basic Income (UBI) – a policy that would provide a regular, cash income to every citizen without means test or work requirement – is surprisingly inexpensive.

A feminist response to the pandemic

By ROAR Collective, ROAR Magazine

Given the rapidly changing attitudes towards care work and reproductive labor as our globalized society combats COVID-19, it may finally be time to recognize gender liberation as a practical and necessary achievement.

A Call for Community-Based Seed Diversity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Gary Paul Nabhan, Jared Kaufman, Food Tank

We would be remiss not to sow true, place-based seed sovereignty in every region and among every culture on this planet, well before a future crisis could uproot us again.

Recipe for disaster: Globalised food systems, structural inequality, and COVID-19

By Rob Wallace, Arie Kurniawaty, Moayyad Bsharat, Paula Gioia, Sai Sam Kham, Transnational Institute

How can we begin to understand the complex relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and our food systems? How is this crisis impacting communities and transformative strategies for a future founded on international solidarity, agroecology and food sovereignty?

Badvertising – is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition?

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

There are new calls to apply the lessons learned from the successful campaign to end tobacco advertising to ‘high carbon’ products and lifestyles, and to ‘stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency‘.

Guidance from The Urban Commons Cookbook

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

The Urban Commons Cookbook seeks to answer such questions as: “Which ingredients of a cooperative community project most help it succeed? What are urban commons and how do they fit into current activist and civil society debates? And what tools and methods do commoners need to strengthen their work?“