Bologna Again Takes Center Stage Resisting Fascism
By Steve Rushton, Occupy
Normalizing fascism is a global crisis. But through active municipalism, Coalizione Civica (Civic Coalition) is challenging Italy's far-right lurch.
Tag: social change
The Speed of #MeToo Gives me Hope – We can Still Stop Climate Change
By Andrew Simms, The Guardian blog
These days new social norms can be swift and profound. It could be our saving grace. After smoking and drink-driving, could climate change provide the next big behaviour-change challenge?
Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
I loved the book’s assertion that “unless progressives acknowledge and accept a politics of imagination, desire and spectacle, and, most important, make it ethical and make it our own, we will bring about our “ruin rather than preservation”.
Electing Democrats in November without Confronting Neoliberalism Will not be Enough
By Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence
Despite their valiant efforts, Barrett contends that organizers today have yet to secure the “wide-reaching, concrete accomplishments of earlier movements.” In this interview, he expands on why this is the case, what particular campaigns have done to win meaningful victories in recent years, and where he sees glimmers of hope today.
The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis
By Kevin MacKay, MAHB
Stopping the destructive effects of industrial, capitalist civilization has now become the defining challenge of our age. If successful grassroots struggles can be linked with equally hopeful movements for real political change, then there is hope for the future.
The Changing Narrative – A New Ontology for the Progressive Movement?
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley, Open Coop
An ontology is basically a set of principles or assumption about how the world works; about the fundamental ‘nature of reality’.
Making Massive Small Change: Excerpt
By Kelvin Campbell, Resilience.org
The Massive Small compendium is a sourcebook of ideas, tools and tactics to help build viable urban neighbourhoods. It is a bold and ambitious project aimed at ‘changing hearts and minds’,
How Did We Do That? The Possibility of Rapid Transition
By STEPS Centre Staff, P2P Foundation
How did we do that? The possibility of Rapid Transition, by Andrew Simms and Peter Newell, STEPS Centre & New Weather Institute, 2017 shows what we can learn about rapid change through examples from history and the present day.
We Can’t Do It Ourselves
By Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine
Individuals do make choices, but these are facilitated and constrained by the society in which they live. Therefore, it may be more useful to question the system that requires many of us to travel and consume energy as we do.
Individual vs Collective: Are you Responsible for Fixing Climate Change?
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
What I’m trying to say is, wealth and power are incredibly tightly concentrated and to look at a grossly unequal system and say every person has equal responsibility to fix the mess we’re in just doesn’t make any sense. We all have some power and some responsibility, but some have much more than others.