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Free Stores exist in over 30 countries. No prices, no profits, no barter, no "what can you offer me?" You take what you need and give what you can. The People's Free Store in Boston provides furniture, clothes, books, all free, all the time. Another world is possible.

Peter Thiel's secretive network Dialog planned a WWIII strategy retreat in Ireland: 220+ guests, a NATO commander, Trump officials. Activists occupied the hotel, jammed its phones, protested for weeks. The venue cancelled. Power needs rooms and staff; we can deny them these.

Something inspiring is happening in Albania and even Dua Lipa is talking about it. The Flamingo Revolution started as a protest against Jared Kushner's resort being pushed through at the expense of nature. Now it's a youth-led, meme-led, nonviolent uprising against a failing two party system.

A movement that doesn’t achieve all its goals at first may prove to be more successful in the long view.

Kefaya ("Enough") rose in 2004-5 to challenge Mubarak, something no-one had dared do publicly in Egypt for decades. By 2008 the movement was over, apparently a failure. But it trained organisers and broke the fear. In 2011, many of its veterans were in Tahrir Square when Mubarak finally fell.

Will Ed Miliband go down in history as one of the few politicians who actually did what needed to be done? Or will he trash his reputation for all eternity?

Pontevedra, Spain pushed cars out of its centre in 1999. Zero traffic deaths since 2011. 12,000 new residents. Zermatt banned petrol cars in 1931. Now it's run on tiny electric vehicles, capped at around 500. Two very different towns. Same idea: streets for people, not engines.

The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires. At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare. Perhaps you can connect the dots.

A $1.2M Czech wetland project spent 7 years stalled in bureaucratic limbo. Then 8 beavers built the entire thing themselves - dams, ponds, canals - in the exact spot engineers had planned, using only wood, mud and stone. For free. So officials cancelled the human version.

It started with villagers pooling 16 cents each into a fund they controlled. Now Ekta Parishad is one of the largest nonviolent movements on earth: thousands of villages with their own grain banks, deciding everything in local assemblies, and campaigning together for true democracy.

In 1971, Copenhageners cut a hole in a fence and turned an abandoned military barracks into a self-governing town. You don't buy a home there, you apply, and if the community agrees, it's yours. 55 years on, Freetown Christiania is still going strong - but no photos are allowed.

In a Mombasa slum, traders had fish, vegetables and motorcycle rides to spare but not enough shillings to trade them. So they built their own currency, backed by each other's word. The central bank arrested the founders. They were acquitted. Now the idea has spread to tens of thousands of Kenyans.

Channel 4's Meet The Natives saw tribesmen from the Pacific Island of Tanna come to England to sample life with working, middle and upper class families. They couldn't understand why the English worked all the time, and there was only thing they wanted to take home from British society. Chips.

February 1986, Manila. Marcos ordered the tanks in. The people didn't move. Hundreds of thousands filled the streets. Nuns stood in front of armoured vehicles with rosaries in their hands. Soldiers sent to crush them refused to fire. Four days later, the dictatorship was over.

1943. Nazi Germany ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jews. Danes said no. Doctors admitted Jewish patients under fake names. Fishermen ran them across the sound to Sweden in the dark. Over 7,000 got out. Almost the whole community, saved by a country refusing to look away.

In Lebanon, Jibal are growing food sovereignty through war: community kitchens, agroecological gardens, local food systems holding people together when supply chains and safety collapse. Feeding each other becomes resistance. Growing your own food becomes freedom. Try it.

Mazin Qumsiyeh trained as a geneticist at Duke and Yale. Then he went home to Palestine and used his own award money to build the Palestine Museum of Natural History. 250+ papers. Nobel Peace Prize nominee. For him, saving nature and building community were never separate.

One woman sparked a revolution in Egypt. In January 2011, 26 year-old Asmaa Mahfouz filmed herself, alone, no protection, and said she’d stand in Tahrir Square with a banner even if no one joined her. A week later, hundreds of thousands did. 18 days later, Mubarak was gone.

1994. A customer asked Ray Anderson, CEO of carpet giant Interface, what his company was doing for the planet. He had no answer. His factories spewed 900 pollutants a year. He called it "a spear in the chest", and acted on it, building the first carpet firm aiming for zero waste.

Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat. Only 10% think their compatriots feel the same. They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not.

66 years ago, Patrice Lumumba stood before Congo’s colonisers and said his people would show the world what Black Africans could achieve in freedom. Today, despite war, climate breakdown and decades of plunder, it’s happening. #worldcup

After Mo Salah joined Liverpool, hate crimes in Merseyside dropped 16%. Anti-Muslim tweets by Liverpool fans went down 50%. And being reminded Mo's an observant Muslim made fans more likely to say Islam is compatible with British values. One man moving the needle on Islamophobia.

Most countries treat forests like a resource. Bhutan wrote a number into their constitution: at least 60% of the country must stay forested. Forever. They hit 70%. They absorb more carbon than they emit. Let’s all be more Bhutan.

Photocopying can be an act of resistance. Anthony Russo & Daniel Ellsberg spent weeks photocopying the Pentagon Papers page by page after hours at a friend's ad agency. The result? One of the most consequential leaks in history, exposing US govt lies over the Vietnam War which it helped to end.

Did you know there's a project underway to encircle London with a continuous belt of woodland, orchards and hedgerows? Young people with learning disabilities are doing the planting. This is what hope looks like.

Two brothers from Newark served 30 years each. When they came home, they realised what was missing was community. So they built one. The Returning Citizens Support Group has now supported over 5000 people coming out of prison with housing, jobs, counselling, somewhere to belong.

Shade from street trees reduces surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees are cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave. Think about that next time someone’s threatening to chop down a tree in your area.

Why do South Africa's gays have the continent's strongest rights? Thanks to Simon Nkoli who came out while in prison for leading a rent boycott against Apartheid. Fellow activists tried to distance themselves but Nkoli won them over and convinced the ANC to commit to gay rights.

Erin Pizzey had no funding, no staff, no legal power. Just a borrowed building in Chiswick, London and an absolute refusal to turn women away. From that one room in 1971, she launched the global women's refuge movement and saved thousands from domestic violence.

July 2022. A catastrophic wildfire tears through Dagenham during a heatwave. What will climate change mean for food supply, health, nature, national security & what are the solutions? Free tickets to People’s Emergency Briefing Film in Wimborne 26 June. www.tickettailor.com/events/extin...

As we enter another deadly, record-breaking heatwave, let’s look at what a Tory or Reform government would do about it 🥵⚰️

Amazon killed Lee's computer hardware business. Sales of memory sticks collapsed from 60 a month to two. So he built Localito, an online marketplace for 350+ independent Greater Manchester businesses. The anti-Amazon - shop local but online. Let's have a Localito for every city.

A Romani folktale from Transylvania turns out to be almost identical to creation myths in Polynesia and Southeast Asia. How? The Roma migrated from India 1,000 years ago, spreading stories with them across the globe. Stories so old they predate every civilisation that tells them.

We're going to need to refreeze the Arctic - and it might just be possible. Scientists braved -40°C to drill holes in sea ice, pumping 50k tonnes of seawater onto its surface. It froze instantly, thickening ice by 50cm. Why? Because ice reflects 70% of solar heat. Open ocean reflects just 7%.

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to put the rights of Mother Earth into its constitution, giving nature legal standing to be protected and represented in court. Seven years later, mangrove trees used that right to evict shrimp farmers from their territory.

In 1999, 1% of Portugal's population was addicted to heroin. So they decriminalised ALL drugs. Addicts were offered treatment instead of jail. Drug deaths collapsed. HIV infections collapsed. Drug use rates stayed below the EU average. Q: why hasn't anyone copied Portugal?

AI isn't just stealing jobs; it's concentrating wealth in the hands of those who control the machines. Knowledge workers, factory, farm and gig workers need to unite - our struggles are connected. The real battle is between the many who create value and the few who extract it.

Nasser arrived in the UK from Sudan at 16, alone. Three years later, he’s a qualified FA referee who officiated a match at Portman Road while studying for his GCSEs and training to become an engineer. What a gift to the UK.

"The West no longer has the moral ground in the Middle East in the way it once did." - Sherard Cowper-Coles, ex UK ambassador to Israel, said that because of Palestine. And he said it 15 years ago.

Roy Hattersley persuaded the Labour Party to back multilateral disarmement instead of unilateral. Hattersley died yesterday. Multilateral disarmement has been dying a slow death since 1996. If we want a world without weapons of mass destruction, someone must take the lead.

Spain has bus stops that stay cool with zero electricity. Porous clay walls absorb rainwater then slowly release it as temperatures rise, chilling the air. It's how people in hot countries have cooled buildings forever. You can do it at home by watering plants in terracotta pots.

In 2009, a surfer called Max Tattenbach promised his girlfriend he would plant trees on a Costa Rican beach made shadeless and barren by years of cattle farming. 100,000 trees later and the howler monkeys are back. Another world is possible.

How do Rupert Murdoch and Viscount Rothermere brainwash Britain? Through pluralistic ignorance. Their papers convince you ordinary people hate immigrants, climate action and wealth taxes. In reality, huge majorities of Brits support all three. They need you to feel alone. You aren’t.

Ramón Méndez Galain was a physicist studying the Big Bang when Uruguay's president called in 2008: "Will you be our Energy Secretary?" He said yes. Within seven years, Uruguay was running on 98% renewable electricity. No blackouts. Bills halved. 50,000 new jobs created.

Bill Wilson tried psychiatry. Religion. Willpower. Nothing worked. Then a stranger shared his story in a hotel room - and something shifted. Alcoholics Anonymous - 90 years old today - now helps millions, not through therapy or drugs, but through radical honesty in community.

Sweden taxes income up to 57%. It taxes wealth/inheritance/gifts at zero. One family - the Wallenbergs - owns 40% of the stock market, a dynasty dating to the 1850s. Profits go into a foundation that funds science. So the rich can avoid wealth taxes - by giving their money away.

Once again Golding is proven wrong.

Marilyn Monroe was under FBI surveillance for years. She met Khrushchev. Married Arthur Miller when McCarthy's men were circling him. Made Ella Fitzgerald a star. Built her own production company in an industry that wanted women owned. They sold you the icon and hid her beliefs.