The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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Extinction Rebellion Must Evolve to Tackle Our Systemic Climate Crisis
To really tell the truth about climate change, the rebels in Extinction Rebellion need to call out climate criminals. Anything else is a whitewash.
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Human Society Under Urgent Threat from Loss of Earth's Natural Life
Scientists reveal 1 million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report.
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The Bankster Welfare State: Where Crime Pays
In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.
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The Radical Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money
Everyone knows governments need to tax before they can spend. What Modern Monetary Theory presupposes is, maybe they don't.
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Rebel Cities 23: Japanese Food Co-op Seikatsu Offers Hope for a Starving Planet
The Seikatsu model of food supply provides a working solution toward the intensifying capitalist-driven global food crisis. It could be a model that others worldwide choose to follow.
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We Are (Still) the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 4.0: Consumer Data Harvesting Has Gone Too Far
The company strives to intimately understand its customers by harvesting consumer data at unprecedented levels – ironically, without the consent or the acknowledgement of its customers.
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Restraining the Power of the Rich with a 10% Surtax on Top 0.1% Incomes
Excessive wealth and power commanded by a small group of multi-millionaires and billionaires – the richest one-tenth of 1 percent – poses an existential threat to America’s economic vitality, democracy, and civil society.
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Field Notes 2020: Andrew Yang’s War for Normal People
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
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Reaching Critical Mass On Taxing The Rich
Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
