By Darian Meacham, Luana Russo, Open Democracy
With declining real wages, often precarious contracts, and stressful working conditions, parties that use communication tactics or promote policies that prompt strong negative emotional responses are more likely to attract voters then their more temperate rivals.
By Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth
Every day more Mexicans discover that what we are experiencing today, not only in the country but on the entire planet, is a colossal battle between life and death. In short, social power keeps moving forward!
By Ayesha Tandon, Carbon Brief
Lifting hundreds of millions of people out of “extreme poverty” – where they live on less than US$1.90 per day – would drive a global increase in emissions of less than 1%, according to new research.
By David Graeber, P2P Foundation
For instance, almost everyone nowadays insists that participatory democracy, or social equality, can work in a small community or activist group, but cannot possibly ‘scale up’ to anything like a city, a region, or a nation-state. But the evidence before our eyes, if we choose to look at it, suggests the opposite.
By Michael Edwards, openDemocracy
The Ford Foundation believes we have an obligation to strengthen capitalism. In fact we have a duty to transform it.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Public health is an alternative indicator of well-being and is strongly correlated to levels of equality or inequality. Greater equality means greater well-being for everyone and a smaller need for the state – yet inequality has been increasing dramatically.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
If it’s true that the suppression of talk about privilege in general, and class privilege in particular, is in the process of breaking down, it’s not a minute too soon.
By Pope Francis, Vatican
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By Patrick M. Lydon, FinalStraw.org
Is it possible for a humble seed and a patch of soil to be the catalysts for stronger, healthier, more equal urban communities?
By Jerome Roos, ROAR Magazine
What can organizers elsewhere learn from Italy’s movements?
By Caroline Whyte, Feasta
Those who follow climate change in the news will know that the latest IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change does not paint a very rosy picture.
By Cecile Andrews, Seattle City Living
A comment from a Swedish businessman caught my ear: “When you have heavy taxes, it takes away the desire to get rich, and then you start focusing on things that are more important than money. You care about other things than just getting ahead.”