politics

Back in 1858, when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated, the events were epic —literally. Each debate lasted three hours , with one candidate speaking for an hour, the other for ninety minutes, and the first getting a thirty-minute rebuttal. And people stayed. Farmers left their fields, shopkeepers closed early, and entire towns showed up,... See more

“ We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.... See more

There are massive monetary incentives to destroy the planet in this capitalist system.

Very, very few of us were taught much about the global systems of imperialism or colonialism or the truth of capitalism. So we should be clear that we never need to remain stuck in the deceptive narratives we were taught, or taught to ignore, as children. We can, and must, keep learning and adapting to new information. Our future is too precious to... See more