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Across the world the Right is gaining ground. Progressive parties are in desperate need of new policy that will genuinely improve peopleās lives. Free groceries is a good place to start!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Free Groceries for All: A Realistic Path Towards Universal Basic Income
Economic insecurity is a major problem of the contemporary world. Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been widely advocated as a potentially powerful antidote; however, it remains relatively unpopular be...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/bis-2025-0003/html
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No, Prime Minister Carney. You Donāt Get to Recognize a People While Helping Erase Them
You armed a genocide, then asked for credit. Weāre not fooled.
https://maysahawwash16.substack.com/p/no-prime-minister-carney-you-dont
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A rare voice of reason and compassion amidst the madness.
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With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake | Luiz InƔcio Lula da Silva
Terms like ādeglobalisationā have become commonplace, but what we need is true multilateralism, says Brazilās president Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/world-crisis-end-globalisation-mistake-lula-da-silva
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Please don't look away.
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āGaza must be eliminatedā: Israelās airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel-gaza-propaganda
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Fantastic new article from the brilliant
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Most workers have no viable alternative to undemocratic work, and so no choice but to suffer its harms. But what if there were an actual legal right to workplace democracy? I argue that there should be.
theconversation.com/why-canada-n...
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Why Canada needs a law that gives workers the right to govern their workplace
In its governance structure, the modern workplace operates as a kind of mini dictatorship. But what if there were an actual legal right to workplace democracy?
https://theconversation.com/why-canada-needs-a-law-that-gives-workers-the-right-to-govern-their-workplace-257776
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"In response to the documentary, Israeli settlers and soldiers broke into my yard, vandalised it and assaulted me.... Settlers then stole my pan-African flag, given to me by Black Lives Matter, and burned it among a pile of Palestinian flags."
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I told the truth about the West Bank and was threatened and assaulted. Now I'm relying on you to act | Issa Amro
Our lives are blighted by illegal settlements, and 22 more have just been approved. Unless Israel is held to account, we will be erased, says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/israeli-settlements-west-bank-international-law-illegal
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(Noticing also how the Toronto Star today has zero mention of Gaza, but plenty on Ukraine... This is what systemic racism looks like)
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Gazaās youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gazas-youngest-influencer-aged-11-among-children-killed-by-israeli-strikes
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Imagine the world's response if these were white babies...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid ā Israel-Gaza war live
UNās humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/20/israel-gaza-hamas-aid-middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates
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I chat to the Not Local podcast about the scourge of wealth inequality in our world today... Check in out!
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Not Local
Society & Culture Podcast Ā· International affairs podcast with experts in the U.S. and abroad. notlocal.substack.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-local/id1745756284
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š Welcome Airyn! We see you! š
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: āI donāt know what the big deal isā
After her announcement of her transition, the actor said: āI loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughterā
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/01/robert-de-niro-daughter-airyn-trans
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Iām loving Loretta Rossās new book "Calling In." āCalling out is a short-term fix, whereas calling in is a long-term remedyā Brilliant and wise discussion of how to build sustainable social movements.
www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Callin...
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Calling In
From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur āGeniusā Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the exces...
https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Calling-In/Loretta-J-Ross/9781982190798
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Thrilled to see the publication of this symposium on the work of Joe Carens! Joe is a preeminent political theorist, one of the architects of democratic market socialism, not to mention a phenomenal teacher, mentor, and friend. Hereās my friendly engagement with his work:
tinyurl.com/carens2025
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Carensian market socialism: a friendly investigation
Joseph Carensās model of market socialism is widely influential and has been called the āPlatonic idealā of market socialism. This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Carensian model...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2025.2489250?casa_token=Ip8X1XDL2TwAAAAA%3AXgftD8MNVbOmjyJQm5GaIDfMZxPljzm61_3RBfG4CQtu-nY2MAqYXS-VUeKhlNWw-fFZ080IfwJYaQ
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A culture of care is the recognition that building relationships is the heart and soul of organizing. It is not a waste of time, nor peripheral to the āreal work;ā it is the real work. It is the mortar between the bricks that binds us. And we'll never win without it.
@chanellegallant.bsky.social
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A Culture of Care: The Secret to Building Organizations People Want to Stay In
What we learned about organizing white folks away from the racist right.
https://convergencemag.com/articles/a-culture-of-care-the-secret-to-building-organizations-people-want-to-stay-in/
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Does anyone really believe that a billionaire class can co-exist with democracy?
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Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race
Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trumpās agenda and āthe future of civilizationā
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/31/elon-musk-1-million-dollar-checks-wisconsin-voters-supreme-court-election
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What do you call a country that beats and arrests an artist for making a film that is critical of it?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Landās Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested
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Drop the Charges against the Indigo 11! Support the Toronto Community Justice Fund!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyaW...
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Drop the Charges Against the Indigo 11!
YouTube video by friendsofthe11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyaWDsOU4Yc
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Although meritocracy is a central ideological pillar of our time, it is a deeply ableist and inegalitarian concept because there is nothing like a ālevel playing fieldā between us in terms of our bodily abilities or energy levels or choice-making capacities.
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Iām loving Fred Blockās new book! Itās about reshaping society to provide the social and physical infrastructure (which he calls āhabitationā) to ensure a basis of good and flourishing lives for all, in a decentralized participatory democracy. Brilliant stuff!
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-hab...
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The Habitation Society | Columbia University Press
In The Habitation Society, leading economic and political sociologist Fred Block argues that we are at a time of āblocked transitionā from one mode of ec... | CUP
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-habitation-society/9781788217507
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A fundamental feature of Western societies over the last 100 years has been democratic asymmetry: We have had (relative) political democracy fused together with economic oligarchy. This has always been a strange, unstable mix.
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The horrors from Israel seem neverending....
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āThey forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackledā: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal
Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/26/testimony-of-gaza-doctors-israel-prison
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The archetypical libertarian is like Thoreau. A man who lives in the woods, and boasts of self-sufficiency, independence, and individualism. And yet, only survives because his mother and sister visit every week to bring him food.
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The lack of workplace democracy is a brutal problem. It causes inequality, job insecurity, disrespect, and domination. But what can be done?
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Trump represents the collision of two historical forces: the collapse of democracy into oligarchy unleashed by Citizens United, and the furious reaction of white men against the idea that Black, Brown and trans lives equally matter.
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Elon Muskās call for a āwholesale removal of regulationsā is a classic example of one of the great myths of neoliberalism: that there could be such a thing as a āfree market.ā The free market is a myth ā like unicorns or leprechauns.
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Smart words from the brilliant Gianpaolo Baiocchi on social housing.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYuRavTD/
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ā of Americans do not have a good place to live. Listen to NYU Professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi talk about social housing options that are protected from the market. Tenant controlled, publicly backed ho...
TikTok video by House the Future
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYuRavTD/
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If we taxed only ONE individual ā David Thompson (USD$71.3 billion) ā at only 1% of his wealth, allowing him to keep the other 99%, that would be enough to eradicate homelessness in Canada. (Wealth estimates from Forbes; nightly homelessness estimates from statcan)
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