Memory, fire and Hope: five lessons from Standing Rock

Memory, fire and Hope: five lessons from Standing Rock

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Standing Rock may have been evicted but the movement hasn’t lost. Here are five lessons activists around the world can learn from the...
Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

By Isabel Marlens Originally published on the Local Futures blog. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t vote for...

Trump´s New world

                              THE WORLD AT A CROSSROADS by Peter Fieldman Why has the election of Donald Trump created panic and uncertainty around the world two months before he actually takes...
Let Donald Trump be our unifier

Let Donald Trump be our unifier

Donald Trump is not a leader or a presidential candidate. He is an outcome, a viral manifestation of a serious malignant illness. He is the mirror of our emptiness, the emptying out that has been happening to our country for a very long time. He is an outcome of a...