How to Build Narrative Power and Co-Create a Just Future
By Adam Szymanski, Post-Growth Institute
Before we can set to work tearing down old systems and building up better ones, we first have to imagine where we want to go.
Tag: social change
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 22 Kumi Naidoo
By Vicki Robin, Kumi Naidoo, Resilience.org
Kumi’s current roles include Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University; Global Ambassador, and Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Kumi shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
A simple way to understand what’s happening … and what to do
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
The world seems to be coming apart at the seams. It’s critical to understand why, so that we can avoid the worst and find the best responses so as to move toward the environmentally and socially healthy future we want. It turns out that there’s a relatively simple frame for gaining such understanding.
In and against, and outside, the party
By Joe Guinan, Red Pepper
The climate clock is unforgiving. Multiple overlapping crises – political, ecological, economic, pandemic – are already upon us. We lost the election, we have lost the party leadership, but we have not yet lost the chance to build our movement.
The New Vistas that David Graeber Opened Up
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
David Graeber was a cruel loss in these already-difficult times. Graeber was only 59....he clearly had many more dazzling books ahead of him....and those of us questing for system-change as multiple crises converge, took great inspiration from his thinking.
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I’m thinking of these present two posts more as a kind of position statement on the politics underlying my forthcoming book, A Small Farm Future, and its arguments for renewable agrarianism, using the debate about XR as my foil.
Protest, violence, class
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The tactics of ‘get off our land’ and ‘hey, we have a collective civilizational problem that needs greater action’ are not the same, even if they’re part of the same larger story.
The risk of a progressive reversal
By Frank Fischer, Great Transition Initiative
Thinking about the post-pandemic future and the scenarios that could emerge is as challenging as it is important. One cannot conceive of a more pressing issue for a progressive movement. Finding a workable response is thus of critical importance.
If democracy looks doomed, Extinction Rebellion may have an answer
By John Harris, The Guardian blog
At the heart of a new climate emergency bill lies a simple idea to cut through Westminster groupthink: a citizens’ assembly.
2026: A new agenda for tomorrow
By John de Graaf, Resilience.org
With ideas like the Green New Deal, or the “Beauty New Deal,” which the Maryland-based Bread and Roses Party has proposed, we should be able to write another volume—2026: A New Agenda for Tomorrow.
A letter to real power: a letter to us
By Rupert Read, Resilience.org
I started to re-assess my assumption about who this letter would be directed to. When I looked up the dictionary definition - “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events” – and I recalled the way the world has changed since 2018, it became clearer where the power really is. With us, the people.
Politics, Trauma and Empathy: Breakthrough to a politics of the heart?
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Medium
We can choose to believe the future is inescapably set in stone, and thereby make it so; or we can dare to create an opening for a different future, and so give us all a chance.