Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Understanding social movements, what causes them and makes them succeed, are the elusive questions that David Graeber’s latest book, The Democracy Project. A History. A Crisis. A Movement, confronts in response to the contemporary Occupy movement.
History has handed us a job to do that will require a whole new word for courage before we are done.
Much of the United States climate movement right now is structured like an archway, with all of its blocks resting on a keystone — President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.
As Ivan Illich and Anthony McCann have argued, historically, the commons was not simply a pool of resources to be managed, but an alternative to seeing the world as made of resources.
This is a book that seems to be created above all for people who are active in social movements, but who are also uneasy about the current global crisis.
Many may be surprised, for example, that actual anarchists aren’t necessarily rejoicing over the U.S. government’s latest form of self-annihilation.
Growth itself isn’t the problem, it’s what’s growing and how prosperity is measured.
Think global, act local, globally. That’s got to be the next step for this broader movement…
Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.
It’s win before you fight. Using an innovatively designed civil resistance campaign as a nonviolent deterrent, the people of Quebec have so far been successful in defending their land against hydraulic fracturing.
In one multi-billion dollar mega-project after another, David is standing up to Goliath—and winning.
The movement is a network at this point and that is what is most important…that we met each other.
