Hannibal Rhoades
“We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking.”- Anna …
Tord Bjork and Marko Ulvila
The impact of Mahatma Gandhi on the emergence of new social movements in Europe after the Second World War has been quite significant. Gandhian influences can be traced to many important civic initiatives – movements and organizations around Third World liberation, peace and non-violence, international solidarity, the environment and democracy. A large number of the key actors involved in these movements had established direct or indirect contact with Gandhian activists in India and, not surprisingly, that relationship shaped their thinking and had lasting impacts on their movements, …
The following statement was presented by Besime Konca of the Kurdish Women’s Movement at “Defend the Sacred” Conference, 17th August 20.
Dear women, dear friends,
We have come together in Tamera, Portugal to collectively find a way to defend …
Miki Kashtan
In 2017, I co-led an intensive training at Punto Zero, Chile, a retreat center that aims to restore at least some indigenous ways of being. In response to a question from a participant, these words came to me: …
David Korten
We’re running out of time. There’s spreading awareness of the institutional failure that is driving humans toward self-extinction, and related calls for a deep transformation of our economy. This is happening in every quarter, from college campuses to …
Shrishtee Bajpai
Bhookh se maut nahin hoti, jal, jungle, zameen chheenney se hoti hai (hunger doesn’t kill you, you die when your forests, water and land are taken away from you), says feisty Bitoli Didi of Sitapur City in …
Mathilde Hojrup Autzen
“We were told to bring along our slippers to the meeting at the life-saving station in Thorupstrand, where the floors are rather cold in December. The lifeboat operator, Per, didn’t want to let anyone scuff up the …
Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams
‘A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell about themselves’ wrote Nigerian poet Ben Okri. ‘Sick storytellers can make nations sick’.
Our age seems to be an era of sick stories.…
Terry Leahy
Over the last fifteen years, I have focussed my research on food security projects in the rural areas of Southern and Eastern Africa, in countries previously colonized by Britain. I became aware of the situation there through contact …
Omar Dahbour
Marxian theory is usually connected to environmental concerns through the attempt to provide an explanation for the historical origins of climate change, species extinction, and other facets of the contemporary ecological crisis [eg Foster 2000, Moore2015, Malm 2016]. …
Gurudas Nulkar
“In the long-run, we are all dead”, said John Maynard Keynes. Thanks to our obsession with economic growth, the long-run may not be as far as Keynes imagined. Since its inception, the Nobel prize for economics has been …
Kartik Shanker and Meera Anna Oommen
There is something particularly tranquil about the Lakshadweep Islands – the communities that live there, the lagoons that surround the atolls, and perhaps even the reef fish that swim beneath the calm waters. It …