Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism
Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope …
Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope …
A LOT of developments are emerging around the climate issue – a nonviolent insurgency, offensive and defensive fossil fuel divestment efforts, insurance …
I explore here the diversity of responses – my own and others’ – to existential threats like extreme climate change … and …
In March 2014 the giant Great March for Climate Action will begin its 8 month cross-country activist trek. I believe it has …
The National Dialogue Network (NDN) is an ambitious project inspired by a contest held by the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation …
Below are excerpts from six articles describing two upcoming national and international initiatives that could further undermine our already shaky ability to exercise informed self-governance. The first anti-democracy initiative is the apparent re…
There’s a flash of hope here: A remarkable U.S. transpartisan group called Represent.Us is promoting a brilliantly designed Anti-Corruption Act. Check it out! The proposed law pulls together a number of anti-corruption and money-out-of-politics ap…
During the last 6-9 months most Occupy groups have been relatively invisible in the mass media. But just because something is invisible, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Think radiation… or back room deals… or the vast webs of fungi and ant civili…
A THREAT TO THE INTERNET, AND NAMING THE RIGHT PROBLEM by John Abbe President of the Co-Intelligence Institute The Internet is in an uproar over proposed U.S. House bill Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and it’s corresponding bill in the Senate, the…
My sleep was cut short last night by waking up worried at 3:30 a.m. PST about NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s ultimatum that the Occupy Wall Street protesters leave Zuccotti Park – aka Liberty Square – at 7 a.m. EST so the park could be cleaned. I won’t sha…