In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos
Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina.
Democracy
Why Power Is Not a Dirty Word
Frances Moore Lapp茅 looks at redefining power and taking it back.
3 World Water Wins
Around the world, people are taking control of their water supply.
How Felton, Calif., Achieved Water Independence
A tiny Californian town took back its water supply鈥攁nd your town can too.
Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Instant Runoff Elections are a Vote for Civility
Burlington鈥檚 success with instant runoff voting (IRV) is a model of a clean, open debate. Is it time to take it to the national level?
Communities Take Power
Communities across the country are declaring citizens' right and duty to protect their water, land, local economy, and way of life, even if it means taking on the enormous power of corporations. Here are some of the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up.
Who Will Rule?
Big corporation have become de facto governments, and the ethic that dominates corporations has come to dominate society. But, citizen movements are proving that we can take on corporate power, and together build a future that works for all life. This article gives hope on how to change the current corporate rule to citizen rule.
Democracy Rising
Latin America's marginalized are mobilizing and changing the face of their nations' politics. From increasing national oil profits to rethinking regional trade plans, they are empowering themselves and lessening their dependence on the U.S.
How Commerce Consumed the Commons
In a world where everything's for sale, we've forgotten that much of value happens outside the stream of commerce. Here's how we forgot--and how we're reclaiming the commons.
Where FEMA feared to Tread
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
Recipe for a Cooked Election
In the 2004 election, more than 3 million
ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went,
but also provides an example of hopeful voting reform in New
Mexico.
Health Care: It’s What Ails Us
Americans spend the most, get the least, and have no health care security. The solution is not that difficult.
The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
In Iraq, the First Priority Is to Be Human
They don't like the occupation or the militias, and they aren't signing up for any political or religious faction. Instead, these Iraqis want to live with their neighbors in peace.
Democracy: the (Re)Claiming of Democracy
In danger of losing their vote and voice, Americans are demanding a return to the founding principles.
Bill Moyers – On Journalism
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors鈥攂ut it鈥檚 getting tougher
A Phoenix from the Ashes
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors鈥攁ll are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
The Demand for the Common Good
What happens when economic growth produces more 鈥渋llth鈥� than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life鈥攖he commons?
Fighting For the Soul of the Democratic Party
fighting for the soul of the democratic party
by John Dittmer
Bringing Back Desert Springs
The Hopi people of the Black Mesa region know how to farm and thrive in the desert Southwest. But a giant coal company is draining the aquifer that feeds their sacred springs and makes their livelihood possible.
The Lake And the ‘hood
Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.
A Watershed Runs Through You
The struggle to bring back endangered salmon draws one community into a new commitment to the well-being of its watershed
Study Circle Democracy
Deliberative democracy through study circles.
Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
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