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Published in: TransformationPolitical poetry does not ask permission
While television, advertisements and other manicured media project a shiny, plastic vision of the world, poetry...
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Published in: TransformationA labor of love
Yesterday, September 26, 2013, a mass movement succeeded in persuading Governor Jerry Brown to sign the California...
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Published in: TransformationRhythms of resistance
What to do with abandoned properties in Porto? Turn them into community gardens and public spaces for art, music,...
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Published in: TransformationBerlin’s ‘system error’ free shop
No money or goods exchanged, just take what you want.
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Published in: TransformationJoy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
In these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as...
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Published in: TransformationPPE for the people
What do political elites like Prime Minister David Cameron, opposition leader Ed Miliband and 40 other UK members of...
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Published in: TransformationCommunity action against property markets
Dan Strange's cartoon is a bold image of transformation through community action. It is a response to Jane...
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Published in: TransformationEmpathy: lots of lessons but no final words
What can we learn from two weeks of debate? Empathy must be used to correct injustice, not simply to understand it...
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Published in: TransformationMuriel Lester and the stench of injustice
Asserting the dignity of all people is a central moving force in the history of social change. This is the fifth...
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Published in: TransformationForget empathy – it’s time for radical connection
In the struggle for social justice it’s not how much empathy we feel that makes the difference, but what we do with...
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Published in: TransformationIntroducing empathy
Is the “empathy revolution” just a passing fad or the key to peace and social justice? This is the first in a...
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Published in: TransformationWomen’s survival strategies in Chechnya: from self-care to caring for each other
Luiza encounters regular violence and intimidation in her work helping women survivors of state-sponsored violence....
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Published in: TransformationFlash mob iftars and the Ramadan Tent: Islamic organizing for social justice
Inspired by Islamic traditions, London's dynamic young Muslim scene is struggling for change.
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Published in: TransformationGoing inside, coming out
Before Chelsea Manning rebelled against the order of the US army, others had already done so—the soldiers she...
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Published in: TransformationHow to win friends and influence the new economy
Loneliness is as strong as smoking or alcohol abuse as an indicator of premature mortality. When Lisa Cook found she...
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Published in: TransformationOpen borders for a sustainable future
Should people be deported for being who they are? What if we were to scrap all anti-immigrant laws? An Open Borders...
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Published in: TransformationMoral Mondays: the new face of protest?
"This is no momentary protest. This is a movement. We've been here before, and if slavery didn't kill us, if the...
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Published in: TransformationProtest politics and the ethical imagination
Protest, like marriage, means re-imagining relations to self and other. The Taksim Square Book Club - in which...
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Published in: TransformationThe age of endings
Our myths of progress are killing us. Where can we find a new set of stories to inspire the work of the future? Only...
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Published in: Transformation“Love 2.0:” a conversation with Barbara Fredrickson
Is there any scientific basis for believing that love can be a force for change in politics and economics? An...