ANARCHY, SOCIALITY, AND THE WAY
John Clark
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” – Heraclitus
“If I knew the Way, I would take you to the Oikos.” – The Grateful Dead (slightly paraphrased)
Ted Trainer’s recent two-part article on …
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The Prosumer Economy: Being Like a Forest
Uygar Özesmi
The contemporary world economy is based on large-scale production, competition, growth, consumption and profit maximization, increasingly the cause of rampant economic inequality all over the world, and extreme disharmony with nature. To reach its objective of selling the …
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace …
The path to a just and sustainable society
Ted Trainer
The first part of this article discussed how the consumer capitalist society is so far beyond sustainable levels of production and consumption that the resulting global problems cannot be solved unless there is huge reduction in those levels, …
We Thought It Was Fiction
Alfredo Lopez, Melanie Bush, Hamid Khan and Ken Montenegro
Years ago, there was a movie genre known as “hacker fiction,” a kind of science fiction with plots that revolved around computers, nerdy people who spend their lives using them and …
Challenging colonization: Building sustainable human and natural communities in Palestine
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Water, the driving force of Nature: Emancipation through popular consultation
Alberto Acosta
“The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature.”
Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question” (1844)
Water, a slave of capital
When we human …
Dismantling “Power” by building “Democratic Autonomy”
Şervîn Nûdem
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde
The past centuries have witnessed many anti-colonial and revolutionary struggles launched and fought with the aim of liberating people and their land from exploitation. They have aspired …
The rising green tide: Fighting for reproductive justice in Argentina
Introduction by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein followed by an interview with María Alicia Gutiérrez (Leader of the Argentine Campaign for the Legalization of Abortion) by the author (*)
The year 2020 ended on a triumphant note for the feminist movement in …
More powerful together – Alternatives as Resistance (Part 2)
Jen Gobby
Along the shores of Blue River in unceded Secwepemc territory in so-called British Columbia(BC) , Canada, there is a group of Indigenous folks building and living in tiny houses, solarized, built to be mobile, and adorned with vibrant …
An economy that works for everyone
Clem McCartney
When the New Zealand Labour Party won the recent general election, the party leader and Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said they must seize the opportunity “to build an economy that works for everyone.” As a slogan it compares …
More powerful together – Integrating Resistance with Alternatives
Jen Gobby
We know how much is riding on this moment in history. We know that social and ecological systems hang in precarious balance, teetering on the edge of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe, while an emboldening far right threatens …