Activism

Manifesto of Collective Resistance and Radical Imagination

We stand in defiance. We reject theocracy, oligarchy, and logracy. We reject patriarchy and the revision of history to serve the powerful. We reject detention without due process. We reject techno-nationalism and techno-feudalism. We reject surveillance capitalism, misinformation, and the commodification of our lives. We reject deportations and the criminalization of poverty. We recognize that

Corpocracy

Citizen-less Democracy:

A Governing system where all the important decisions of government are made to suit the interests and values the wealthiest and most powerful Americans and the corporations they own.

Capitalism

Economic Democracy Is the Only Practical Cure for Our…

The capitalist financial system blocks democratic control over investment by its very nature. We need a new model of democratic finance that can address our urgent social and environmental needs. Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature is the private control of the investment function in the hands of the few, generate systemic barriers to human

Capitalism

Squid Game 2, an Allegory of Capitalism Versus Democracy

In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them. f the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing

Democracy

Illiberal Democracy is What We Will All Now Get

Despite the headline statistics trumpeted by the Democrats, or the barely manifested results of President Joe Biden’s industrial policies, the ongoing reality of inflation and the unequal conditions in daily life could not be masked. As recently reported, the top 20% account for 40% of all consumption, which drives the American economy, while the bottom 40%