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Published in: TransformationThe end of Alzheimer’s “disease”
It’s time to re-inject some humanity into the unloving scientism and unjust capitalism of the contemporary dementia industry.
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Published in: TransformationHerman Wallace was held in a cage for 40 years. What does this say about us?
By the time Herman Wallace was released from prison earlier this month, he had been kept in solitary confinement for...
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Published in: TransformationHow children's books can transform the world
Political children's literature has always existed. Clementine Beauvais reads three children's stories about the...
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Published in: TransformationIs your crucifix too big?
A proposed Canadian ban on "ostentatious religious symbols" shows that for migrants, "being Canadian" may mean...
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Published in: TransformationVeganism and compassion
Veganism is often seen as a vain attempt to dismantle market demand for animal products, one block of tofu at a...
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Published in: TransformationIs there any value in New Age thinking?
Defining 'New Age' is difficult - the term has been appropriated by all kinds of cults. In my view, the New Age...
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Published in: TransformationFixing a broken economy
Occupy hasn’t disappeared, its spirit is alive and kicking in thousands of efforts to transform the economy. Let’s...
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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: TransformationEvil: what’s in a word?
What does it take to get someone to go into a shopping mall with an AK47 and mow down random strangers? A failure of...
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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: TransformationPersonalizing the revolution
Are you “in your Element,” doing things that blend your passions and your talents? The personal creativity movement...
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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: TransformationFrom ego-system to eco-system economies
Two words summarize the shortcomings of mainstream economics: externalities and consciousness. The solution to...
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Published in: TransformationHow politicians and the media made us hate immigrants
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as 'uncomfortable...
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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: TransformationA relational society - The Kilburn Manifesto
Today, social responses to peoples' needs are being pushed to the margin by the reframing of all tasks in terms of...
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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...