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New from Z Friend, Jeremy Brecher:
STRIKE!: Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival, has a new audio format and Substack. Commentaries examine social movements, paying special attention to the labor and climate movement and possible solutions – like the current series on “The Green New Deal – from Below.”
New from Z Friend, Bill Fletcher:
Black World Media Network, connecting our world through news, information, & culture, hosts podcasts with Bill Fletcher, Ron Daniels, Stahimili Mapp, & other prominent organizers.
New from Z Friend, Kathy Kelly:
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable, through testimony of witnesses, U.S. weapons manufacturers for Crimes Against Humanity and violations U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict.
Cornel West interview
Kathy Kelly, Brad Wolf interview
Subpoenas Served on Weapons Manufacturers
This ambitious event has many ways to get involved and is seeking participants!
New from Z Friend, Michael Albert:
RevolutionZ: Life After Capitalism is an independent podcast hosted by Michael Albert that highlights social vision and strategy. All about what we want and how we get it.
Latest Episodes:
Race, Sex, & Class
Media with Tamara Pearson
Hounding Myself
SOLIDARITY SPOTLIGHT
Real Utopia: Foundation for a Participatory Society exists to establish an international network of activist-organizers who are inspired and motivated by Participatory theory, vision, and strategy. The establishment of this network will constitute the Foundation for a Participatory Society.
The Greek Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies, called mέta, works to break with a dystopian present to imagine the world anew.
Events:
Open the Black Boxes
In The Mirror of Palestine
The Left and Governability
The Precariat
Recent Content:
Mέta-Troupe: Journey Backstage
Albert: Btwn Labor & Capital
Azari: Iran’s Revolutionary Moment
Standing: The Blue Commons
A Participatory Economy is a model for a democratic, fair and green economic system developed as an alternative to capitalism.
ParticipatoryEconomy.org provides information and resources on how a modern economy of millions of people can be organised around cooperation and solidarity instead of competition and greed.
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States have the power to implement much of the Green New Deal – and some states are using that power. States regulate power generation, local distribution of…
In preparation for a nonviolent mass direct action planned for April that Extinction Rebellion says will be “impossible” for policymakers to ignore, the global climate movement’s United…
During the period from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve, Wisconsinites saw powerful evidence of the instability of our devolving climate. A pre-Christmas snowstorm, fierce winds, record…
https://twitter.com/BXEAction/status/1609412913848008704 Happy New Year from Z Friend, Ted Glick and BeyondExtremeEnergy @BXEAction A rain-soaked, straggly but passionate group of 8 climate justice activists, and a dog, singing…