To the Next System team: thank you so much for what you do. Description: A video introduction to the theoretical concept of the 'pluralist commonwealth'; from the video transcript: "One design for a next system—what I call the Pluralist Commonwealth—helps clarify what we want, and how we get there. Together, they discuss what they have learned from the past 50 years and how to apply that knowledge to today's climate crisis. Well, perhaps unfortunately, everything's not going to change for the best all at once, so a podcast like this that seeks to flesh out seemingly radical ideas, and make it obvious that they are morally responsible, fiscally responsible, and will actually generate hugely positive impacts in society is, in my opinion, refreshing and necessary. He is a member of the PSC-CUNY's Environmental Justice Working Group. "Don't play this game if you're not willing to throw 30 years on the table, " said Alperovitz. That alternative is a decentralized, democratized renewable energy model, one aligned with a climate justice strategy for addressing our current climate and economic crisis. Here are six areas where it's particularly strategic to be organizing and building institutional power in the current moment. Gar Alperovitz is a co-founder of Democracy Collaborative. "There's a lot of worker ownership and community development in different parts of the state, " said Alperovitz. There is a real black left in this country that deserves recognition for starting this conversation about changing the system long before TNSP. She was previously an Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Fellow, working to bridge the gap between scientists and society. In addition, he was nominated to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers by leading national consumer, labor, and environmental organizations. For those who may wish to study these essays with a reading group or class, there is a useful 24-page study guide that accompanies The New Systems Reader.
It's by Thad Williamson, for the Democracy Collaborative, and a free PDF of the guide can be downloaded here. Arising from the unforgiving logic of dead ends, the steadily building array of promising new proposals and alternative institutions and experiments, together with an explosion of ideas and new activism, offer a powerful basis for hope. Ted Howard is a left-leaning environmentalist and socialism proponent who has complained that people are more able to conceptualize the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Despite the scale of the difficulties, a cautious and paradoxical optimism is warranted. In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too.
She has organized around climate justice both in the United States and the Netherlands. This ultimately means transforming some very large corporations into public utilities, preferably at the regional level. New Belgium Brewing has been held up as a shining example of what could be possible through worker ownership. Boston has placed $1 million of public money under binding, directly democratic control of Boston residents between the ages of 12 and 25. Peter Gowan is a fellow of Democracy Collaborative who advocates for the expansion of government by nationalizing a wide array of industries including rail transportation, utilities, health care, banking, child care, and education.
The Democracy Collaborative supports replacing private ownership of business with ostensibly "worker-owned" cooperatives that would allow employees or labor unions to control the company and to elect the members of the board. "MIchael Hudson: The Democracy Collaborative. " Worker-cooperative advocates are building a parallel ecosystem of this kind all across the country. Ted Howard is connected in several ventures with Jeremy Rifkin. Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research. More information about the conference, which also features Bill McKibben of, Tom Steyer of NextGen Climate, and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and which will be livestreamed, can be found here. A particularly exciting effort is the one being led in parts of Appalachia by groups like Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Mountain Association for Community Economic Development. About the Author: Gar Alperovitz has had a distinguished career as a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. Description: is a free online hub for sharing knowledge and resources on cooperatives in a decentralized manner. As a Black woman leading one of the nation's most prominent philanthropic organizations, La June Montgomery Tabron is taking on the challenge of addressing the impact of systemic racism on families and communities.
Preparing for a Corbyn Government (O/R Books, 2019), which was named one of the Guardian's best politics books of the year. Description: As part of our work on The Next System Project, we are incredibly interested in the conversation around energy democracy: using the imperative of a switch to greener sources of power as an opportunity to also advance new forms of engaged community capacity and democratized wealth. In too many cases, progressives prioritize a particular idea or movement or change over all others, leaving the left divided over which injustice must be corrected first, never uniting on a platform of ideas. Your donation helps us develop the models and pathways needed to build towards a truly democratic economy, and allows us to keep our work bold, innovative, and focused on the equitable and sustainable future we need. Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). He was a founding board member of the New Economy Coalition and is currently co-chair of the Next System Project. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Alperovitz served as a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. Greater popular sovereignty and economic democracy. 10 Howard has criticized progressive-liberal Democrats like President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama as equally complicit with conservative Republicans President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush in supporting the capitalist system. I will echo another reviewer with my one critique - fade out the intro music much faster, it's hard to hear the beginning because it stays loud too long and you're fairly soft spoken.
We will also look at different perspectives of institutional democratization: the anchor institution model, social-public democratization, and economic democracy. Carol Pateman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UCLA. The Democracy Collaborative is a left-of-center organization that advocates for the transition of the United States economic system from a free-market economy to government-controlled socialism. Johanna received her in sustainable innovation from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. For a new generation of climate activists, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day is not a day of celebration but a day of mobilization combined with a sober critique of why the ideals of the first Earth Day are still so far from being realized.
Why make a bond trader rich when you could build better schools and lower taxes instead? He is the author of We Decide! It takes a plural approach to building different forms of common wealth. Presented in collaboration with the Friends Provident Foundation. 2013); Unjust Deserts, with Lew Daly (2008); America Beyond Capitalism (2005); Making a Place for Community, with David Imbroscio and Thad Williamson (2002); The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (1995); and Rebuilding America, with Jeff Faux (1984). The site is created by and for people who work in co-ops and serves as a space to practice cooperation and build educational tools for the co-op community. As we work to shift the dollars spent by public and nonprofit institutions into patterns that support and stabilize thriving local economies, it's important to remember that we must defend our right to do so politically. He is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and the Institute of Politics at Harvard.
I have my own chapter on commoning as a transformative social paradigm. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Green Growth and Community Wealth Creation is part of a series of events presented under the theme of 'Levelling Up the Economy' with the support of the Friends Provident Foundation. Offered in English and Spanish, the Strategic Framework for a Just Transition Zine is a 32-page long training tool that offers a framework for a fair shift to an economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members. Cooperatives, Energy Democracy & The New Economy. He is the co-editor of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2018), and is the co-author (with Joe Guinan) of The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity Press, 2019). The Department of Housing and Urban Development has officially endorsed it as a way to implement required community oversight of money allocated locally through Community Development Block Grants.
It was equally important for these movements to operate with an idea of what they want instead. Chapters cover a wide gamut of topics: social democracy and radical localism, the elements of a new, green economy, worker democracy, the Solidarity economy, cooperatives, participatory economics, reparative economics, and much more. Danny Glover, Actor, Social Activist. Among his more recent books are America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) and What Then Must We Do? Community wealth building is the way that we do that and offers systemic and transformative solutions that can build a more sustainable and just economy from the local up. About James Gustave Speth.
In Boulder, Colorado, citizens felt that their city's power supplier—corporate giant Xcel Energy—was not taking the threat of climate change seriously. Organizations like The Working World and the Shared Capital Cooperative are building national networks to channel financial resources into the cooperative economy, creating diversified opportunities in which both institutions and individuals can invest. You can buy copies of many of our speakers' books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. In this time of deepening political, economic, and ecological crisis, it's more important than ever to not only resist the current political threats, but also build a new system—the world we hope to live in. Choose amount Information Payment. He teaches in Philosophy and Urban Sustainability Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Community Ownership and Workplace Democracy at the CUNY School for Labor and Urban Studies. The Washington Post. There's been an explosion of interest in worker cooperatives as a simple solution to begin democratizing ownership of the economy.
Click the following link to join this event Zoom starting at 6:30 PM on Nov 2nd: Meeting ID: 851 2039 7534. Join in the conversation and discover how healthy growth is able to restore equity rather than exacerbating global inequalities. Description: A Just Transition requires us to build a visionary economy for life in a way that is very different than the economy we are in now. Presentation by Sarah McKinley, Democracy Collective's Director of Community Wealth Building Practice.