Sustainable activism: managing hope and despair in social movements PAUL HOGGETT and ROSEMARY RANDALL 12 December 2016, originally published at Credit: Flickr/Takver. Some rights reserved. In her study of ACT UP, the direct action AIDS movement in the USA in the 1980s and early 1990s, Deborah Gould noted the powerful role that emotions play in animating… Read More Sustainable Activism
“It takes an act of love to realize we are all in this together, and an act of courage to demand better, to dream bigger, and to fight for a more inclusive and just world.” —Jagmeet Singh Jagmeet Singh stops a racist attack by a white supremacist who interrupted his speech by reaching out to… Read More Jagmeet Singh’s Revolutionary Love
http://www.monbiot.com/2017/10/13/labouratory/#.WeLqQrhABSo.twitter Labouratory 13th October 2017 We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th October 2017 We are still living in the long 20th Century. We are stuck with its redundant technologies: the internal combustion engine; thermal power… Read More Monbiot: Labour and the Commons
A Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent On: Sep 08Categories: Michel Bauwens, P2P Cultures and Politics, Special Reports, Urban Commons The context and structure of the report Executive summary by Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation, research) and Yurek Onzia (project coordination) This study [1] was commissioned and financed by the City of Ghent, a… Read More The Urban Commons in Europe
“Mindful resistance” is the key to defeating Trump Outrage and disdain waste mental energy — and feed into a narrative that sustains the president. Updated by Robert WrightOctober 9, 2017 8:54 am originally published at Vox.com https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2017/10/2/16394320/mindful-resistance-key-defeating-trump-mindfulness [Editor’s note: I deleted the photo of ‘three women in sitting posture for meditation’ from the original article… Read More Robert Wright: Mindful Resistance
The following is an excerpt from an article posted by Daniel Christian Wahl. I have featured several of Dan Wahl’s articles on this site. This is a link to the rest of the article. Activism Revisited: Conscious participation and collective intelligence Daniel Christian WahlOct 6 If success or failure of this planet and of human… Read More DCW: Evolutionary Activism
Photo: Rescuers digging out of the rubble of collapse after the earthquake in Nepal, April 2015. Resistance and protest against fascism, though necessary, are not enough. While we are desperately running around trying to put out the fires set by Trump and his small but dangerous cohort of White Supremacists, we have little energy to… Read More Doing the Work of the Commons
