The Community Bill of Rights – Turning Occupation into Lasting Change
The legal system is part of the ‘system’ which Occupy London rightly identifies in its initial statement as both undemocratic and unjust. To remedy this, we must radically reorient our legal structures everywhere, so that they foster meaningful [...]
For the Sake of Mother Earth: The Rio+20 Earth Summit
We are living through a particularly ugly period in world history. As Naomi Klein explained in her book “Shock Doctrine”, in late stage capitalism deregulated corporations and financers don’t just seek to maximise profit at the expense [...]
Biofuels Power Stations: Greenwash at Our Expense
In an era of austerity it takes a far-sighted and responsible government to invest in green energy. Despite the rhetoric, however, the ‘greenest government ever’ is doing quite the opposite. Not only is it dragging its feet on climate action, [...]
Industrial Food & How To Avoid It
There was a time – long, long ago – when all food was organic, local, fair trade and pesticide-free. Of course, that era was also the time of the Black Plague, the Spanish Inquisition and an average life span of 42 years, so don’t get [...]
Guardians of the Future
I’ve got a proposal to end the chronic culture of short-termism that we have in our politics, our electoral cycles, our business and economics. Because when one is trying to think on a timescale of hundreds of years or thousands of years [...]
Earth Injustice: Why Our Legal System is Failing the 99%
Our legal system is failing the 99%. Within this term coined by the Occupy movement I include the myriad of non-human species humanity has co-evolved with over millennia. Injustice for the Earth has become the norm as the legal system in most [...]
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