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Main street versus Wall street, round 2
The power of this movement is not in the material of the tarps and tents – it’s in the people who inhabited them, who breathed and talked and ate and cleaned and continue to dream of a better world – a world not steered by corporations, where the wealthy hoard even more wealth and workers are squeezed until there’s nothing left to squeeze out.
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From October 15th forward, occupy and dream together
What if instead of international trade, finance and debt systems that put the rich and corporations first, we had economic systems that put people and planet first?
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Occupy Wall Street, Together, and Nonviolence
Everything about the occupy wall street movement is inspiring to those of us on the left who have long-standing and well-founded questions about capitalism.
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Keystone XL pipeline civil disobedience in Washington
What’s underway right now in front of the White House is inspiring.
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Confronting the unmitigated disaster of climate change through system change
“System change, not climate change.” It’s really amazing how these few words so accurately sum up the challenges that face us when it comes to climate change—without question the single largest challenge humanity has ever faced in our short history as a species.
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The left’s educational challenge
If we accept the role of public educator — training a more critical citizenry in political and social life — it also means a taking seriously the communicative power of the acts we undertake which represent left values.
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A call to passion for un-sexy politics
Living in a rich, northern society for any amount of time (let alone being born into one) brings the culture of narcissism that flows from consumer capitalism into sharp relief. Whether as children, adults or seniors, we are bombarded with cultural messages that focus on consumption for pleasure and to meet needs
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The paralyzing struggle over purpose in the northern left
Those who embrace the moniker of the ‘left’ in the richer, northern countries acknowledge that a host of issues and struggles play into its definition.
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