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Fitz: The Most Important Environmental Demand: Less Work
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
A shorter work week should enter into every discussion to protect the environment. Advocating fewer hours of work is core to both (a) everyday organizing to stop environmental abuse, and (b) imagining an ecological society. These are several rea...
Colombaro: Global Social and Economic Independence
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Pasqualino Colombaro
Colombaro's ZSpace page
The relationship between humans and their environments is at the root of innovating social relations at this historical juncture. Healthy social (object-) relations (Melaine Klein, 1964) and Self-actualization (C.G. Jung, 1957) are the core of h...
Mann: Grassroots Organizing for a World Revolution
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Eric Mann
Mann's ZSpace page
The core of our argument: 1) that any discussion about reimagining socialism, particularly in the United States, has to be rooted in anti-racism and anti-imperialism and the support for self-determination of oppressed nations and nationalities ins...
Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate for a good society?
Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society.
Bond: Reimagining Postneoliberalism
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
If neoliberalism may have another breath of life, with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation applied from above by Barack Obama or the International Monetary Fund, much stronger pressure is needed from below to resist. Some forms have been well tested in s...
Mcgehee: On The Reimagining Society Project
Blog Post, July, 15 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Here are ten essays I want to share with others. I posted this “note†as a link so that others can “share†it with others on their Facebook pages.
Wittel: Creating Common grounds
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Andreas Wittel
Wittel's ZSpace page
This is a planet under severe construction, surely with no end of history. State socialism has failed two decades ago. Now neo-liberalism and the belief in unregulated markets have failed in a similar devastating way. The crisis of capitalism on a...
Torrealba: The Role of the Revolutionary Lawyer
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Fernando vegas Torrealba
Torrealba's ZSpace page
At a recent talk one of the participants in a lecture about the Venezuelan Justice System asked if it was necessary to be a lawyer to act on behalf of justice in any inter personal conflict.
Fitz: We Can Produce Less and Consume More
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
A major gulf between environmental and social justice activists is “stuff.†Environmentalists (or at least serious ones) say “less.†Social justice organizers have the habit of saying “more.â€
Cherry: Agency trumps structure
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Janet Cherry
Cherry's ZSpace page
Buzz Aldrin's ‘Unified SpaceVision' recommends that human beings unite across national boundaries (under the leadership of the USA, of course) to colonise other planets (starting with Mars) in our solar system. Klaatu, on the other hand (Klaa...
Lipow: When money talks, it sometimes lies.
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
Markets in everything creep not just into our lives, but into our thoughts. Most environmentalists worried about the climate crisis focus on winning a cap-and-trade system or at best a carbon tax. They prioritize pricing greenhouse gas emissions....
Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Being active in the anti-war movement, supporting eviction blockades in my city, working with youth who are surviving oppressive schools and violence on the streets, I often wonder how I can justify taking the time to imagine what sex, family, gen...
Mcfellin: Towards a Participatory Recovery Plan
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Atlee Mcfellin
Mcfellin's ZSpace page
The religious philosopher Martin Buber made this statement in 1949 as he looked back upon the revolutionary struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Albert: Imagine and then Act
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory society.
Epstein: Why the US Left is Weak - and What to Do About It*
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Barbara Epstein
Epstein's ZSpace page
The topic of my essay is the current weakness of the US left, by which I mean those of us who want a democratic and egalitarian society, a demilitarized world, and a respectful relationship between humans, other creatures, and the natural environm...
Bloch: It's All About Energy...
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Nadine Bloch
Bloch's ZSpace page
When i imagine society for my daughter, because that is my frame of view as a mom to a curious and energetic 9 year old, i tend to fall off the fence in one of two ways...On a gray day, one where my energy is low, where deplorable violence fills t...
Schechter: Call & Responce
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
May I date myself? In my earliest days as an activist, in southern churches in the forefront of the civil rights movement, preachers engaged in call and response. There would be a fiery statement from the pulpit and a loud amen from the congregat...
Street: You Choose: Jimi Hendrix or Lawrence Welk
Blog Post, July, 13 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Two choices...it's up to you.
Szczepanczyk: The Montesi Maneuver Extended
Znet Article, July, 13 2009
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
You could select any topic that subsumes anything that might be called "left activism" -- the environment, war and militarism, labor rights, energy, education, media, electoral politics, food and drink, banking and finance, just to name a few broa...
