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Debt and the Tar Sands

by Charles Eisenstein The Occupy Movement has been characterized by, and criticized for, its lack of focused objectives. Originally gathering around issues of economic inequality and debt, it soon ballooned to include every progressive issue under the sun, and then some. Yet amid the cacophony of proposals and messages, we could always detect a hint [...]

Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence

By Rebecca Solnit When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by them — or if all goes well, struggle, learn, and bond more strongly [...]

How To Respond With Love

THE MISTAKE WE MAKE is thinking the corporations are separate from us. The mistake we make is thinking that corruption is only a political issue. The mistake we make is thinking that by eliminating the system we eliminate the problem. It’s true we live in a world dominated and exploited by the few, and it’s [...]

What will it take? [Poem]

What it will take Is a resistance to the system that we’ve come to embrace For no other reason than just because it is For resistance is to question what we’ve been led to believe Not necessarily lies, but stories Stories that have become truths in the synapses of our minds Bonds so tight that [...]