Blogs

August 23, 2017

To the Left: stop resisting the resistance 2

August 17, 2017

To the Left: stop resisting resistance

August 8, 2017

Inclusivity and Social Justice in Intentional Community

July 28, 2017

A Platform for Socialist Transition: Alexander Kolokotronis for National Political Committee of Democratic Socialists of America

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July 23, 2017

Relocalize the Power - Community Energy Solutions Part II

July 2, 2017

When Feeling Good is Bad

Josh Davis

There are times and places where alleviating some suffering for the short term is valuable and desirable, but there are plenty of others where easing pain in the short-term is actually harmful. Pain, after all, isn't just some negative sensation — it's a signal that we're being damaged in some way and need to do something to stop that damage from occuring.

Renewable Rays project at Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Rushford, MN.

July 1, 2017

Relocalize the Power - Community Energy Solutions Part I

June 18, 2017

We Need New Stories

Michael Johnson

Naomi Klein has an interesting article in the latest issue of the Nation, Daring to Dream in the Age of Trump. I recommend it. Much to appreciate, disagree with, and discuss. I want to focus on two features of it, one I find quite surprising and one that is so typical and so disempowering of the Democratic Left.

June 17, 2017

Window on 21st Century Activism:The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD)

June 3, 2017

The "Green Insiders' Club" - Why Wallow in the Problem or Wait for Godot?

Pamela Boyce Simms

Let's stop trying to squeeze blood from a turnip. Green movement diversity watchdog, Green 2.0 released telling data last week on the American environmental movement's top 40 NGOs. Three years after the publishing of State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, the new "Transparency [Report] Card" shows that "staff, leadership, and boards of mainstream environmental organizations and foundations are still overwhelmingly white."