Sowing the Seeds of a New Economy
Practical alternative economic models are rapidly taking shape in practice in Catalonia. Are the indignados finally harvesting?
social movements
Roots & Remedies Converges to #WageLove in Detroit
What do you draw from your roots? What remedies are you cultivating? What is your vision of our future?
Urgency and the long Game
One conversation, one community event, one social enterprise, one ‘aha!’ moment at a time. And hoping for the best. This is the long game.
People’s Climate March—Largest Climate March in World History—Launched in Times Square
Scheduled for Sept. 21 in New York City, the People’s Climate March will coincide with September’s UN Climate Summit, where world leaders including President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in attendance in answer to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon summons to consult on climate change.
Theater belongs to the people: Occupying Rome’s Teatro Valle
The three-year occupation of Teatro Valle in Rome is now legendary: a spontaneous response to the failures of conventional government in supporting a venerated public theater, and the conversion of the theater into a commons by countless ordinary citizens.
A struggle to save Europe’s soul from privatization
As the EU sells its soul by pushing Greece to privatize its natural and cultural heritage, ordinary citizens are mobilizing to save their common wealth.
We’re at TTIPing point
Put bluntly, both EU and US corporate lobby groups, and their political allies, view the TTIP as an opportunity to over-ride the rules and regulations that might hinder their ability to trade.
Blockupy and beyond
The blockade of the European Central Bank in 2012 and 2013 started as a German initiative but has triggered an international movement responding to a Europe in crisis.
How to Build Trust in Transition
Trust makes Transitioning “stick.” Trust in people, trust in a nonhierarchical process, trust that we can joyously cope with uncertainty and the unknown, is the “stuff” of Transitioning to resilience.
Marinaleda: the village where people come before profit
In the south of Spain, the street is the collective living room.
Let’s Win Barcelona!
Introducing Barcelona’s movement for a new metropolitan democracy.
‘Environmental Catastrophism” is a Red Herring
In my Monthly Review articles, I showed that there is simply no evidence for, and a wealth of evidence against, the claim that talking about environmental crises causes apathy or strengthens the right.
