The contemporary international political economy is marked by a great contradiction. On a planet characterized by finite resources, the economy is predicated upon an absurd and irrational logic of infinite expansion and accumulation. With its fossil fuel …
On the 6th of August, more than 2,000 peasants gathered at Nabón, Ecuador to firmly say no to transgenic crops and seeds. It was the occasion of the 15th Seeds and Ancestral Knowledge Exchange organized by the “Autonomous Government of …
First published by John Foran, on Resilience.org | MAR 14, 2016
Introduction
We are living through an unprecedented crisis, in a world beset by massive social problems – the obscene poverty and inequality that neoliberal capitalist globalization has wreaked …
Originally published on Yes Magazine authored by Neil Thapar.
Our food system is broken and needs to be fixed, many say. But it isn’t broken. In fact, I think it’s working exactly how it was intended. The current food system, …
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Plan A is the name for the capitulation towards the demands of the creditors, now the most realistic possibility; plan B is the Grexit which offers Greece an independent path within the same economic logic, but with basic sovereign …
First published on Yes Magazine here
The inability of politics to address poverty, climate change, and other basic challenges has fueled extraordinary experimentation in American communities. Welcome to a new conversation on how we make change happen.
Editor’s note: This …
Hello friends! This is the first FairCoop Bulletin; we plan on sending these out on a semi-regular, (non-spammy) basis to let you know what’s going on in the global Fair.coop movement. The wealth of any movement is its members so …