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Published in: TransformationConfessions of a climate change denierThe global people's climate march is the right time to confront the culture of denial that still exists among many...
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Published in: TransformationSurviving the ups and downs of social movementsThe fluctuating cycles of popular movements can’t be avoided, so how do activists translate periods of peak activity...
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Published in: TransformationWe must all be allowed to love each other with honour: spirituality and social transformationSecular narratives of social transformation are often separated from religious narratives of personal...
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Published in: TransformationForced episiotomy: Kelly's storyEvery patient has the right to say “no” to a doctor. Informed consent means that a doctor doesn’t get to say, “I am...
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Published in: TransformationWhat I learned from going cold turkey on technologyAfter I developed RSI, the use of social media led to crippling pain which forced me to confront my compulsion to...
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Published in: TransformationWhy the Internet makes the personal even more politicalOnline interactions have changed the ways people participate in politics. The second in our series on social media...
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Published in: TransformationFrom empire to earth community: Casa de Paz
In the Fruitvale district of East Oakland, California, 36th Avenue is the turf of three major gangs. Yet the...
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Published in: TransformationDoes the left still need transformation?Strategy is weak without soul: readers react to openDemocracy’s newest section, and where it goes next.
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Published in: TransformationCollective memory, collective trauma, collective hatredTrauma runs through the narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians in the form of the Holocaust and the Nakba. But...
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Published in: TransformationNo more enclosures: knowledge democracy and social transformationJust as we recognize the importance of biodiversity for the survival of the planet, so we must preserve the diverse...
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Published in: TransformationArt after Occupy
In the aftermath of Occupy, artists are utilizing a diversity of tactics at the cutting edges of radical politics...
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Published in: TransformationI know why I’m obsessed with Jews, but why are you?Can we care for people who don't look, speak and think like us? Only greater knowledge of our own responsibility for...
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Published in: TransformationWe are all complicit in the bombardment of Gaza"We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an innocent...
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Published in: TransformationArt for the sake of life: the history of Palestine's Freedom TheatreOver 900 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed in Operation Protective Edge. Despite the violence, The...
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Published in: TransformationSocial justice with knittingWelcome to the world of craftivism - a way of looking at life where voicing opinions through creativity makes your...
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Published in: TransformationIf we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?No more gurus: the emergence of peer production opens the way to a commons of spiritual knowledge from which all...
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Published in: TransformationWe need more humans, not more heroesExaggerated by the growing celebrity culture of social change, hero worship is on the rise. In the process we risk...
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Published in: TransformationWhy social movements need the radical imaginationBook extract: The radical imagination often emerges most brilliantly from those who encounter the greatest or most...
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Published in: TransformationTransforming anger into nonviolent powerAnger, rage and a desire for revenge are all reasonable and justified in the face of armed attacks, abuse and...
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Published in: TransformationTrigger warning: trigger warnings (towards a different approach)The main point of trigger warnings is to open up the possibility for people to determine what they engage with, when and how.
