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fifty fate the to regard likely in are pivotal years be to next These disquieting times demand nothing less. Though we’ve These disquieting times demand nothing less. Revolution of the barricades variety is no longer in the air. Revolution of the barricades variety in the air. no longer is Kate Schrock says general that Green level, a more At accomplished some important things since 1968, the aspirational the aspirational important some accomplished things since 1968, but have far to go, We horizongreen well ahead of us. remains the Enlightened political and flora. fauna, its people, of the planet, Both, will be crucial. movements greening parties will be needed; Our galvanized readers are individuals. by committed of course, them. to be among figure Instead, we draw encouragement from recognizing how the how recognizing we draw encouragement from Instead, by generation graduallyis process root, taking “greening” manifestingchange of social in various arenas generation, of but many headway, politics is making slow Green activity. as evidenced advancing rapidly, are the associated movements is about the Joel Rothschild’s articlesby featured in this issue. Kaufman Maynard reviews about a book movement. ecovillage Jill Stein relates for a Universal Basic Income. the movement heavily recently become involved with the movement she’s how article my own Voluntary And extols the for Electoral Integrity. Simplicity movement. candidatesprioritizeto ought supporting already are who those discusses the vital need for self- Elnagar Romi in motion. social change any organization—encouraging in examination to hold themselves to a high standard in particular, the Greens, Rensenbrink John urges us And self-criticism. of compassionate innovations of institutional “explosion the ongoing to appreciate is the kernel of transfiguration. he says, Here, at the local level.” When in suchgovern get elected to office they should Greens Yes-saying, as to help spur the myriada way of that projects locally-rooted new-kind-of-revolution. development of a new social change paradigm was evident. Fiftydevelopment of a new change social paradigmevident. was years later it can be said that we’ve critical taken a number of the lefton disdain the old Many now steps in that direction. Our sense of historicalsectarianism. perspective has broadened. Our people and the confronting explication of the problems nuanced. more planet has become ABOUT THIS ISSUE THIS ABOUT green horizon magazine horizon green In the wake of the
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1968 ended ignominiously of Richard with the election These awarenesses were the basis for the foundation of the the basis for the foundation were These awarenesses Reich’s quote gives a sense that the idea of “greening” involves far “greening” quote gives a sense that the idea of Reich’s That was fifty years ago. I had just started college and was That was fifty years ago. summer SDS, the main student activist organization. The need for the the main student activist organization. SDS, Nixon, the escalation of the Vietnam war, the indictment of the the indictment Vietnam the escalation of the war, Nixon, of disintegration the and leaders, protest ChicagoConvention the ’68-ers, were crying out for A Better World. And they’ve And crying were World. out for A Better the ’68-ers, varietyinformed the great of analyses that have and proposals the years in over been expressed Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Personal and Global and Personal Diversity, for Respect Feminism, the They reflect Focus/Sustainability. Future Responsibility, and then of theorycoming-of-age and praxis since the ’48-ers, summarized in the values that remain key to our movement: summarized key to our movement: in the values that remain Democracy, Grassroots Social Justice, Wisdom, Ecological Community-based Economics, Decentralization, Nonviolence, community life—in addition to environmental stewardship. community life—in to environmental addition aptlyThey’re during politics movement the 1970s. Green during The Sixties, and awarenesses that have deepened everand awarenesses The Sixties, during the encompass suggest that social transformation must since, and relations, social economics, holistic revitalization of politics, more than just environmental remediation—and, certainly, more certainly, remediation—and, than just environmental more Lessons that startedthan just electoral victories. to be assimilated creation will be a newcreation and enduring wholeness and beauty—a and to the to nature, to society, Self, to the renewed relationship (from land.” the one presented in the presented the one “There Charles’68 upheavals is a revolution Reich write: would Its ultimate It will of the past. not be like revolutions coming. among the many who felt that revolution was in the air. But our was in the air. who felt many that revolution the among transformation of social notably was conception from different century, activists of my generation were proud to identify as “68- to identify as proud activists of my generation were century, manned the barricades signaling that we had a badge of honor ers,” (literally or figuratively) during the global ferment of 1968. revolutionary ferment of 1848 (the year of publication of the Communist Manifesto). D 2018
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Many protest groups on the left on a general groups protest do or might share Many deepens against the leftAs the reaction (and against the Protest/resistance: many say that by “the movement”“the they that by say many Protest/resistance: generality of the people) by an authoritarian and heartless and local of resistance demonstrations administration, Trump on the leftfieryLeaders turn increase. call for a strong protest of strategy to identify with and deeply support the social/ This peoples. organizationseconomic/political of oppressed of d’tre the raison mission, the compelling the focus, becomes hope It is a repeated “The dub what they Movement.” now backand call going portion by a of the left for this to happen, ever really happened, It hasn’t years and more. a hundred actually. Some protest groups oppose other protest groups, groups, oppose other protest Some groups protest actually. or veering some right, even veering left, some hard left, energies and efforts used by Their conflicting are right. hard to cancel politicians many mutually demands. incompatible ever-deftis that Or what happens down politicians water meanwhile “keepinghappy,” them demands, respective their keeping themselves and in power. in control policy to government sense of opposition or to administrative but they nevertheless concentrate their edicts and practice, silos to one Theyremain interest. core efforts their own on they rise time to time: do form from Coalitions another. cause Sometimes more or one and disappear and reappear. enthusiasm and a huge march up a broad is able to fire largelyThough some ineffectual follows. Washington on the takes place of everamelioration worsening poverty, and of the middle decimation class, of nature, degradation and dance that has for peace (a song worsening prospect decades) truetaken place for many it is also regrettably that the drift to face our demise as a species of human failure that it has not or say has not really worked, Protest continues. well or effectively—andworked running we are out of time. been assumed by the Green Party to be the movement. The The the movement. to be Party Green been assumed by the especially the last. unaccountablyothers are ignored, all I have a quick question: groups. mean protest/resistance a modest estimate about 20,000, are There groups? protest MOVEMENT THE green horizon magazine horizon green or decades Greens have talked about the relationship of the Green Party to “the to Party of the Green haveor decades the relationship talked about Greens is the movement? or who, But what, movement.” One sees a myiad of “movements” to a point where it seems everything is “a it seems everything to a point where “a is “movements” One sees a myiad of and living that can lead to a new economy and society. Only seems to have the first and living that can society. lead to a new and economy movement.” I suggest identifying three kinds of movements: protest/resistance; protest/resistance; kinds of movements: I suggest identifying three movement.” of life for basic needs a locally and of projects humanitarian creation efforts; inspired F We start with eight articles arranged in two start with We
It is time for us all to think it through. It is time for us We feel that the same purpose can and should be applied feel that We One way to express our editorial vision is this quote from One way to express our editorial vision
emphasis. When we seriously do that it becomes much clearer that movement work and political work are closely connected. Thank you, Joel. (transcending) the many ways we have been doing it historically as if from without. This applies as much to the political party emphasis as it does to any movement to be revolutionary in both seeking fundamental change and in seeking it from within the received order—rejecting willing to resort to force and violence on behalf of “the cause” does not work and seldom has. It is time for the left to acknowledge this. surely but a non-traditional revolution. The vision faces squarely the fact that wrenching oneself out of the received order to escape it or to destroy it and/or being to BOTH movement work AND to political and party work. to BOTH movement work AND to political Both and together as a whole. The vision is of a revolution the article written by Joel Rothschild, “We should see our “We the article written by Joel Rothschild, a broken society but purpose not as teleporting out of EcoVillagers. healing it from within.” Joel is addressing though kept strictly separate in the public mind, the media, though kept strictly separate in the public and even in many progressive publications. and to share with us our vision of close connection been and to share with us our vision of close change within the two in terms of seeking revolutionary For the two are thusly connected, even the received order. clusters: five articles that have a movement emphasis and clusters: five articles that have a movement politics emphasis. We three articles that have a party and to see overlaps, invite the reader to visualize each emphasis, Seeking Revolutionary Change from Within from Seeking Revolutionary Change Editors’ Note: Close Connection of Movement and Party in and Party Close Connection of Movement
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There’s a revolution going on beneath the radar screen of beneath the radar on screen going a revolution There’s newsand troubling The sad is the news. the good That’s Another word for all this is “the New Economy.” But a Economy.” “the New for all this is word Another and magazine articles detail these blogs, A blizzard of books, Brown do the same. do the same. Brown The corporate that run goliaths the media the mass media. They ratchet exists. that this revolution want it known don’t revolution.” “quiet to undermine this power up their economic ongoing the people the people’s They hide from smart. They are in to undermine it with their top down and then bore revolution beginning to mouth They are ploys. and investment consumer “local”control. alldo then and they top-down their can assure to a revolution. it’s “quieted,” it is But however much dearth and political to this by the Green attention of awareness of the United States—andParty by most if not all state Green we Greens in-attention, foolish and incomprehensible Parties.By to opportunity missing the great are of this historic moment, up can the ground support topple the that from a revolution corporations. of the monster empire indeed for centuries, they have been and are in the forefront of in the forefront they have and are been for centuries, indeed They show initiatives and projects. of the aforementioned many that everyoneby example can an alternative reach and creative economy. a grass roots “revolution”, it is for accurateand just word more As these localization—pre-figuring—ventures come revolution. is a-building a new to happen) there together (this is beginning multiracial, It will be a new society that is multicultural, society. with diverse ecologically forms classless; sound; multigender; and a fair and democratic ownership; of community-centered distribution of political power. and older ventures Institute The New Economics initiatives. Locallike the Institute for timely Self providing Reliance are by David Korten Books technical support. and conceptual by Gar and books magazine he has fostered), “YES” (and the Sam millions. by ShumanMichael by and read are Alperowitz, and Maine has written eloquently on SmithWashington of Paul Hawken and The influential writingsLester of local. going MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green
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I think this was done by Maine’s Merrymeeting Greens’ fight Merrymeeting Greens’ by Maine’s I think this was done I think the earth shaking NO in Maine Against Clear Cutting ahead we can looking carry kind of approach that Similarly, What is the stuff of an ongoing here I have presented We do some of this. But not steadily But or resolutely in a or this. of some do We to catch challenging I am The revolution the Greens is up with not knocking protest I’m want to be misunderstood. I don’t criterion I think we need a through to help guide us A caveat: American Politics and Democracy paperback in June. in the 1980s against an out-of-state corporation’s attempt to attempt corporation’s in the 1980s against an out-of-state foist a so-called emitting waste-to-energy toxics our plant upon that fight and this encouraged and won We mid-coast towns. went “No” Our to turn to recyclingenabled the towns programs. “Yes.” together with a even in the Referendum, though it lost narrowly in the 1990s, message to the state and the put out a clearYES—a message of companion it as a to treat the forest, to respect paper companies for life and not as an exploitable commodity. in a referendum initiating of our water, exploitation to Nestle’s and apply it to a struggle we can for for a water-tax; states where we certainly, And climate justice carbona climate tax. saving, it’s Here canapply campaigna to it Voting. Rankedfor Choice very clear that saying to spoilerism NO hand in hand with goes inalienable right elections. to fair to a citizen’s YES saying everywhere Party Green The fullybe should part of revolution. assist in its fulfillment! or not, whether Green And it. focused way as an alternative political party. Nor do we connect connect we do Nor alternativean as way focused political party. for electoral-systemthe fight specifics of the localchanges to the revolution. “the movement.” of revolutionaryat the core of change—the core not humanitarianism and resistance, no-saying protest Not change But raw the examples exhibited in institutional either. I have cited. both part the of crucial, Both are or humanitarian endeavor. revolution. ongoing The left a surfeit suffers from of the thicket politics. of protest needs there and as we act, When to act, prepare we no-saying. in our minds a definite element of proactive yes- to be present overwhelmto the shutter and Yes the allow we that Not ness. saying and to what degree but to have in mind how No, strong to life and the Yes a canand doing No lead to a positive result, benefit of the people. MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green will to govern—to govern govern govern—to will to to help spur and support specific innovations and to help spur and support specific innovations being done. Not by us. But by ordinary people! by us. Not being done. is There is this further dimension: to fight for the political power to fight for the political power is this furtherThere dimension: Unfortunately, and shamefully, the work we can the work and should and shamefully, Unfortunately, So instead of presenting ourselves as a handmaid, a helper of So ourselves instead of presenting as a handmaid, It’s already being done! The revolution is already underway! is already The revolution being done! already It’s I hate to tell you, but it isn’t so. One of the reasons it isn’t so is a it isn’t One of the reasons so. but it isn’t I hate to tell you, You may be among those who demur. Isn’t one of our famous one Isn’t those who demur. be among may You
6 underway. underway. the Electoral College. These basic changes to our outmoded the Electoral College. and reactionary electoral system absolutely are necessary for for democracy and success of the revolution the growth already of the voters—for Ranked Choice Voting that eliminates the Voting of the voters—for Ranked Choice that eliminate mammoth for Clean Elections blight of spoilerism; corporate to get rid of money; for a popular vote for president important, to lobby local and legislative bodies for those projects important, between elections. of the revolution conveying therewith a no-nonsense especially just as and, locally-rooted of the on-going projects revolution; be doing is left to languish, or put on the back burner. That the back or put on burner. be doing is left to languish, underway—to that is already is to assist the revolution work forwardcome as practical people determined to run for office— followed, the revolution will come about, everything about, will come the revolution will be fine followed, to carry and (ahem) we will be there it out. what not. We are the new missionaries with a gleam in our eye. newthe missionaries eye. are our in gleam a with We not. what to bring of centuries how on the same old recipe regurgitate We that if only (ours) is this program about fundamental change: who are delegates to the Green Party’s National Committee. Committee. National Party’s delegates to the Green who are have We What we hear is that we have ideologies to back us up. superior our historyof understanding and intentions, good our the revolution, a catalyst thereof, we want to be the revolution revolution the be to want we catalysta thereof, revolution, the is especiallyThis approach noticeable to those of us ourselves. work work listening? you are Hello Greens: spend so much time telling one another that we are the ones who the ones time telling another that we are one spend so much the the projects, can doing the innovations, and should be in there the the projects, surpriseThe funny is that the innovations, work. peculiar phenomenon. Our of not really is one listening to posture peculiar phenomenon. Instead we doing. are the revolution what the people conducting watchwords “think globally, act locally!” And don’t we pride don’t And act locally!” “think globally, watchwords ourselves centered being a down-to-earth and grass on roots party? underway! Hello Greens: Hello Greens: underway! are you listening? The revolution is already revolution is already The
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Trajectories of growth and centralizationtheand state enveloping the in growth of have resulted Trajectories The latter are key. They’re what is missing in our current mass-society reality. For For mass-society what is missing in our current They’re reality. key. The latter are EVI is cognizant issue of appropriate of the scale for suchEVI a transformation and has Ecovillages can model the kind of ecological and communitarian “best practices” that “bestcan Ecovillages ecologicalof kind the model practices” communitarian and With his volume, With his volume, This is a relatively new idea. It runs the progressive-development to counter a relativelyThis is new idea.
summer just about all the power, has a monopoly on force, manipulates the economy, employs manipulates the economy, has a monopoly force, on just about all the power, village as the Technosphere has enveloped the ecosphere. The industrial now state is the ecosphere. has enveloped Technosphere village as the Comprised and corporate—it of two wings—governmental holds ubiquitous in our lives. secondarily within a territory or a county or a province. “Above” that loomed the often- that loomed “Above” secondarily within a territory county or a or a province. and conscripting from taxing, Authorities—reigning, of the impersonal realm feared or empire. state, kingdom, duchy, the seat of a remote social environment of local concentric circles. The nuclear family was embedded within of local concentric circles. social environment even experienceof domain The people, most for supportive familyextended clan. or primarily grounded remained within the villageafter or parish; the rise of the state, extent, support each other. Face-to-face interaction and interdependence come naturally. come interaction and interdependence Face-to-face support each other. extent, the norm was to live within a until just a few years ago, hundred most of human history, neighborhoods that each have their own Common House, culture, place, and identity. Two Two and identity. place, culture, House, neighborhoods Common that each have their own that scale—clusters At has forty one of the neighborhoods of about have thirty units. units, some to eighty and, or ninety able to know members of a neighborhood are residents—all concluded: it takes a neighborhood. The settlement has grown since its inception in since its inception settlement has grown The it takes a neighborhood. concluded: they’ve but ratherclustered-housing added adding units, than just expanding by 1996, personally, in isolation. A green lifestyle A green can by—almost be fostered in isolation. personally, gain social give up stuff, Goals: of community life. and reinforcements compensations experiences. and share resources share enrichment; show the way forward toward the general greening of society. Yes, it takes a “village” “village” it takes a Yes, forward the way of society. the generalshow greening toward because easily and simplifying not downscaling are done (a collective kind), of some of the movement to consciously create more responsible and more satisfying lifeways. satisfying lifeways. and more responsible more to consciouslyof the movement create we’ll the planet,” need to re-learn “save to order in the principleIt was founded on that, locally. and more simply, more lightly, to live more how In the last at the reside They benefits and challenges of a certain kind of lifestyle transformation. most fully which of the is one realizedEcoVillage manifestations NY (EVI) at Ithaca, vital essays that address this predicament and, thus, hold the key to our liberation. thus, and, this predicament vital essays that address A NEIGHBORHOOD IT TAKES of enveloping the ecosphere and dominating culture. What a great considered had been culture. and dominating the ecosphere of enveloping and hopeful achievement is enclosing us. and oppressing ideology of Western civilization which has led, over centuries and millennia, to the centuries over and millennia, civilization which has led, ideologyWestern of or to control seems one that no Technosphere construction of an awesomely complex to the point has grown Technosphere the With its runaway dynamic, fully understand. Liberation through simplification and localization. through Liberation * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Review of: 439 pages. Stead & Daughters Ltd. 2009. editor. Samuel Alexander, The 3-D’s of the Greening Movement: Movement: Greening the of 3-D’s The Democratize Decentralize, Downscale, — 2018
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Ruskin, Morris, the Transcendentalists), has recently been Transcendentalists), the Morris, Ruskin, We need to be thinking in terms of neighborhood-oriented We We don’t all have to live in ecovillages. A bioregional polity A bioregional might all have to live in ecovillages. don’t We The simplification movement, whichroots back traces its to The simplification movement, several cite essays in this compilation As might be expected, major emerged in the wake of Illich’s concept The bioregional vide how social interaction and interdependence can be fostered can and interdependence social interaction be fostered how meals together, eating some space, common by providing sharing maintenance cooperativeempowering decision-making, and cultivating local of celebration. traditions responsibilities, relieving Such far toward would go sustenance of life activities. process “greening” The the nuclear on stresses family. the current of it broadly— of liberation if we conceive can be a source remediation. environmental beyond, going but including, limited space for global trade in a post-growth economy, most economy, limited space for global trade in a post-growth from to use local resources by default, would seek, production shortening thereby to meet mostly localthe bioregion needs, He argues that and consumption.” the links between production than we would lose by localizing economicwe would gain more consumption lowering affluent populations, among and, relations of lose much we really wouldn’t In fact, standards. can be a fullythere and ample human of labor adequate division for a flourishing within a bioregion. cultural expression resources in addition townships, urban of some up made be multiple and centers fostering ecologicalThe key toward responsibility villages. to many and villages shouldand participatory towns, democracy is that cities, be comprised and supportive of functional ethos. enough to be informed by a communitarian “GREENING” IS REJUVENATION inequality and anomie, Mass society alienation, breeds of community life Rejuvenation will consumption. compulsive place. to commitment of renewal a and downscaling require re-prioritizing to access less, around moving happier be We’d The essays and reviving our neighborhoods. extended family, in Alexander’s outstanding theorists of the greening/downscaling movement. movement. theoristsoutstanding of the greening/downscaling that industrialTheyis yielding all growth agree little but they all And advocate shiftinghuman spiritual impoverishment. of an alternative that willonto lead in the direction pathway simplification and localization. of the nineteenth centurythe anti-industrialist presentiments ( “de’s” It involvesa whole bunch of the margins. emerging from of and, de-industrialization, de-centralization, ...de-growth, de-militarization. course, A forerunner of the writings of forty years ago. Ivan Illich’s Illich of communitarian said that a cultivation movement, current in a beneficial de-institutionalization could result self-reliance Ratherof society than a burdensome (including de-schooling). post-industrial “convivial” a to aspire could we affluenza, scaled for a participatoryeconomy form of democracy. “While Samuel Alexander: would stillwritings. be some there MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green People now spend more money on recreation and pastimes. We We and pastimes. recreation money on spend more now People Expansive consumption is stressing us (and the planet) for is stressing Expansive consumption That latter fact is, rightfully, a source of consternation. After all, After all, consternation. of source a rightfully, is, fact That latter Within this problematic context of life, effective politics Within of life, context problematic this
is an anthology important containing of the essays by many THE ALTERNATIVE to consumer culture The poetic alternative Simplicity: Voluntary and gadgets. Only recently have we started to recognize that and gadgets. and farther, bigger, striving of the continual for more, the result and enervation. over-stimulation, congestion, faster is debt, or stimulation (when we're not working!). We drive and around We working!). not we're (when stimulation or people with more in touch” “stay We try to more. fly around appliances buy a lot of machines, We distances. greater over institutions has expanded by a factor of twenty. has institutions oftendine out more and clamor entertainment for near-constant population completed a high school education. Now a majority Now a high school education. completed population feels compelled to try to achieve kind of post-secondary some the number of educational As a consequence, credentialing. we need (and, thus, try to afford) such. A hundred years ago only years ago A hundred try such. to afford) thus, we need (and, aristocratic to, or aspired who derived from, the One Percent Less than half of the to college. lineage sent their children using the fruits of productivity increases to obtain More. Large, Large, using the fruits to obtain More. of productivity increases expensively-furnished and expensively-maintained housing of us feel that many Now of the affluent. used to be the province no discernible gain in quality of life. Instead of enjoying the Instead of enjoying no discernible gain in quality of life. we’re could yield, power that enhanced purchasing leisure household hours of work have actually that periodhousehold hours of work up over gone encouraged advertisingby Why?massand Because we’re time. of and more. more to consume “need” to feel we marketing productivity has gone up by a factor of five over the last hundred up by a factor of fiveproductivity has gone Theoretically the same standard we should able to sustain years. Yet eight hours a week instead of forty. working of consumption It’s the realm of the power elites. It’s remote. And we don’t have we don’t And remote. It’s elites. of the power the realm It’s seem to be always working. We anyway. time for it, MORE, BIGGER, FARTHER, FASTER MORE, BIGGER, FARTHER, “them.” us typical by is conducted politics modern citizens, For is mostly a sham, controlled by the plutocracy. The amorphous by the plutocracy. controlled is mostly a sham, ofmass “wevagariesthe to subject is globalized the of people” the and geopolitics. economy but stable, reliable, face-to-face community has become a rarity. community face-to-face has become reliable, but stable, democracy representative a certain Beyond scale, also withers. to hypermobility) tends to be rootless, confronting the complexity confronting to hypermobility) tends to be rootless, of the modern Leviathan of local the way with little in support. try networks, or mutual-aid to establish mutual-interest People layers between it and the family have withered. The norm now is normThe now betweenlayers it and the family have withered. that the nuclear family—or single individual—is the living-alone and (due state or corporate upon dependent institutions, atomized, a majority of the working population, and produces the toxic the produces and a majoritypopulation, the working of It has usurped placates that the mass of consumers. “cornucopia” intermediate that the social and resources functions so many 8
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a cocoon of culture. But there are consequences in doing consequences are there But of culture. a cocoon so. We get out of touch. We lose our grounding. We are less are We our grounding. lose We get out of touch. We so. and so we’re sensuously synched-in the animals, are than We and restlessness. dissatisfaction, boredom, to prone more We being out of touch. for compensate to seek stimulation losetend to We More. . . then we want . and take control for ecological for natural limits and balances, appreciation Thus we build too much. too far and go We health and sanity. have we arrived at a point of generalized hypertrophy. They than we’ve need to recognize that we’ve lost more Until and development. their touted progress gained from system no alternative economic will such is re-established, save us. claim (and attendant inequality) the hypertrophy that results growth-lusting profit-driven, an exploitation-based, from It could be ameliorated through system. private ownership (thus eliminating the of production socializing the means the deep ecological that They say imperative). profit/growth perspective is deficient to the extent that it fails to address but They have a point, of the problem. the social dimension attempts have as implementation is simplistic, their solution their belief that history“progressing”—with is Also, shown. “higheststage”—is misguided. the socialism constituting There is an alternative, more sanguine, narrative. Marxists narrative. sanguine, more is an alternative, There a thorough re-thinking of who we are and where we’ve been and where of who we are re-thinking a thorough seem to have triedThe gods an experimenthuman with going. deal with the anxiety from that results Can a creature beings: vulnerability, of inherent of consciousness such a high degree and mortality? has been toreaction Our infirmity, frustration, strive and masteryfor control alleviateto in an attempt the nature follya “master But it’s believeto canwe that anxiety. has beenThe actual consequence development.” through Under the auspices of the and loss of grounding. alienation ideology of development ourselves we’ve just been stressing So in a profoundly we need to go planet. the and stressing into to relax how re-learning a sense, direction—in different of the life force—toward with the flow” “go and the stream Edward with nature. relationship a healthy re-establishing U-Turn.” “Great is a needed now Goldsmith said what’s gradually putting an end to the over- It would liberate us, Samuel and the developmentalist folly. the alienation, control, framesAlexander termsin it simplificationof localization. and Approaching a point of civilizational crisis, what’s needed is what’s a point of civilizational crisis, Approaching from Rutgers University. He lives in East Windsor, NJ, and is pursuing a He lives in East Windsor, from Rutgers University. project to establish an ecovillage in that state. 10. 10. 9. We’re We’re MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green by the flow of by the flow Ishmael). Ishmael). directed it for our advantage—akin using
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“YES” MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green am walking the Green path here in Maine. I was a delegate in a most disturbing I was in Maine. path here am walking the Green major party primary national the heals of my disgust and on And a few years back. The Recovery Center here in Portland was created and founded by Steven Cotreau, and founded by Steven was created Cotreau, The Recovery in Portland Center here Growing up with this story, I have I always citizenoff-the-path by inspired been story, this with up Growing At our annual convention in Augusta on May 20th I had the pleasure of hearing I had the pleasure 20th May on in Augusta our annual convention At Heifer (www. International profit, the non founded West, Dan My grandfather, to, but because they are in need and they have reached out, and they have seen that it but because in need and they out, have they reached are to, building helps and community spiritual for allowing connection turns As it out, works. assuage the ravages of addiction. POSITIVE EXAMPLES humble helping places whichhave I many give stumbled into me hope— in Maine, Here case by case, carefully Coalition—which addresses, Poverty Valley like the Kennebec struggling…asmall apartment (yet substantial) needs for folks who are car here…an tire quietly People baby clothes…whatever. there.. down-payment A small of citizens vital network helping citizens.Without judgement or question. who was instrumental in developing in Chicago vital support during the communities Steve and when landed in Necessity was the mother of that invention, Aids crisis. duplicatedhe partneredand model this crisisopiate the amidst Maine decades later, the state are around regions now And Hope. Project to create up with law enforcement similar support their own centers - not because told being to create they are working With each gift of a heifer, the recipient becomes a donor by gifting a donor becomes the recipient the calf to another With each gift of a heifer, chainthis giftingof Through stewardingcareful and process, the of need. in neighbor and trust within the community is Innovation a community of support begins to grow. Spiritslifted reconnected. are and people are strengthened. several roots Maybe Amish my also is it generations gathering—localsolving. problem “jumped grandmother was born but then her family high” Amish (My great back. and help families together come would Communities when she was still quite young). farm grieve together, collective insurance health create funds, Raise a barn, in need. worship together. together, John Rensenbrink speak. His words struck such a positive chord with me. In essence, In essence, struck His words such a positive me. with chord RensenbrinkJohn speak. and find the places around He told us to look of saying “YES”. the power he reaffirmed His solving. quietly and sustainable problem innovative with folks are getting on where speech has been echoing for days in my mind now. budding nucleusfind the to was and premise His idea positive of action heifer.org). He only remained. hope fading of embers where middlethe in situation, dire a of by learning to understand respectfully, support by listening (not dictating), pioneered The and by carefully gifting and with education in stewardship. sustainable goods with The first gifts were small in communities. sustainable self-government focus was on II. War World following 1940’s in the farmers Indiana to Poland, heifersfrom young disillusion, I left my party, registered as Green Independent and connected to a vital and connected Independent as Green registered I left my party, disillusion, This past year be willing I was asked if I would to step in Portland. yet here small group “yes”. up and run and I said candidate independent as a local for state legislature green I
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still This past year I said “yes” to run to legislativestate Maine for “yes” yearpast This I said I was raisedon the Maine Coast and in a fishing community help create a more efficient model for the provision of public efficient model for the provision a more help create of people of thousands whichhealthcare can the hundreds reach in our state MOVING FORWARD Bills in the Maine House and Senate such as LD1781 passed which asked for 60 million tax recently bi-partison with support, Generalfor militarya Dynamics, break contracted conglomerate be fought must the mid coast, to build war-ships on crossing the US - traveling coast to coast, through the midwest and through the US - travelingcrossing coast to coast, economic opened to widespread my eyes In the process were south. of abject poverty regions As I passed through and social disparity. questions many up it brought daily a on affluence into and basis, I cycle as the past election And came of 2016 along, in my mind. became state after home a delegate in my hearing an establishment politician speak truthfully and our disparate economic regarding of movement My hopes for a grass-roots reality. environmental truth become our democratic dashed as I witnessed process were I compromised. and our movement intentionally undermined, I became And vocal social media. on stumbled into the Greens. I began putting small but solid steps forward to connect office. back in positive and meaningful yard with others in my own legislative I see where path, this on As I learngrow and ways. I local needed and should be fought for at the bills level. are we need advances and where solar power for strong see a future we need support I see where the process. to help legislation for a water tax and efforts to solutions, for food sovereignty corporate our state from to protect preserve pilfering, aquifers, health care insurance, for single-payer options options but for healthcare only for insurance it cost $300.00 for a 20 minute doctor visit??) I believe we can idea of interconnectedness - of timing -of patience -of “ripening” “ripening” -of -of patience - of timing interconnectedness idea of observation- the quiet and gentle support for proper needed our ability beyond is powerful to understand. Nature nurturing. Even fantasticallyin this crazy all at times. work at it is And is at nature developmenttime of manic and global corruption, back It comes to the is what I believe. This find balance. to work grandfathermy that hope and understanding of envisioned core - after war - after witnessing witnessing devastation - and then always works balance. to find Nature witnessing renewal. OUR FUTURE of a trajectory the threshold is on Movement The Green of great in With to values and dedication to work, the adherence things. we witness daily, to atrocities “no” to our effortsaddition to say the beautiful embers of hope and innovation we will to look also and support those already beyond, and in our communities deserve our support works These and a our focus, in motion. us. from “YES” resounding Criss- havea performingbeen song-writer life. my of most for MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green
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We should fight for a constitutional change to expedite a constitutional should fight for We issues and I encourage to bat for these others I am eager to go value-added localvalue-added industryripening and is a renewed notion attracts issues and food sovereignty young which addresses to support working should be We into our state. entrepreneurs when And theyas localthese grow. seed and based innovators to come corporations out-of-state multi-national NESTLE, like must put we resources, our natural from and profit us to acquire in place first. and taxes protections proper including Governor for allfor offices, Voting RankedChoice to not onlyoverwhelming the honor legislature, and the state the political but to help broaden playing field. citizen initiative, Let’s to effect positive work changes me. to take the step to join to parse through we continue May for the 99% at all local levels. where to find the places “no” must say we where the difficult areas in Let’s by our local already groups get inspired “yes’. we can say in the spirit And of up our sleeves roll and motion beside them. and pass to create work service and stewardship of our humanity, newin this us which moves legislation era rightin the direction. globally we work for the better good. By acting locally, e
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4. 4. 2. 2. 3. After all, the fact that you are sitting here now reading this article reading now sitting here means that: are the fact that you After all, 1. One indispensible process in the organizer’s toolbox is the practice of regular self- is the practice of regular toolbox in the organizer’s One indispensible process summer self-evaluation as a means of renewal and growth. In the process, we also gain insight we also gain insight In the process, self-evaluation and growth. as a means of renewal we can and see how those who have not yet to reach recognized their errors, into how help them to change themselves. damage that we have suffered in this sick society. We are part of that society, and part are of that society, We in this sickdamage that we have suffered society. even though we we have absorbed of its faults, some whether we want to admit it or not, of constructive implies a process “Organize mistakes,” off your them. striveto overcome Alinsky stated as much when he reportedly said, “Organize off your mistakes.” He “Organize mistakes.” off your when he reportedlyAlinsky stated as much said, our mistakes and analyze them, meant that if we recognize wrong, what we have done Ouroften mistakes of the spiritual out change. social cancome creating guide us in remorse. remorse. Saul goals. aided by constructive common all criticism who share from examination, There is a saying in Arabic, “A friend is the one who is truthful, not the one who not the one friend who is truthful, is the one “A is a saying in Arabic, There with you” agrees even cry making you with have been doing wrong, with what you you who confronts out your copy of GH and peruse it. It really is a blueprint for the future of the Green Party. It really is a blueprint of the Green future for the copy of GH and peruseout your it. walking their talk. For a general discussion of growth in the Green Party, there is little I there Party, in the Green of growth a general discussion For walking their talk. in the last issue of essay Darryl on can to improve say Moch’s dig it, have not read If you Thinking to Some Purpose.” Open Letter: “An Spring 2018), Greens and within its members, to live up to a high standard of commitment and of and commitment of liveto standard high a to up members, its within and Greens in Growing the Green Party Green the Growing in Criticism and Self-Criticism Self-Criticism and Criticism Take a Peek Inside: Peek a Take B
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14 everyone it can solidarity. build group in the Catholic Church, (Marxist-Leninist) the East Coast. from and Friends self-criticism, and one discussion of self-criticism discussion is in the Open and one self-criticism, Congress Letter Criticism-Self-Criticism on Workers by the their perspective with insights from Mahatma Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi and their perspective with insights from ecological a large number of and from Martin Luther King, thinkers. perspective should be a welcome infusion into the Green Party. Party. into the Green infusion perspectivewelcome should be a can widen in turn, and they, them, to learn is much from There as the Qur’an admonishes. The real restitution must be to work be to work must restitution The real the Qur’anas admonishes. for a just society victimized not in which people are because of gender or poverty. race, indeed forgave him. has the right but no one to tell forgive, victims they must best, to the victims, and make restitution as best we can. That’s not That’s as best we can. and make restitution to the victims, and blacks—whose ability to be it, did Wallace but George easy, to me— gracious incomprehensible and forgiving is sometimes in other social evils: militarism, racism, sexism, discrimination sexism, racism, militarism, in other social evils: that acknowledge we must If we have, etc. against the poor, of the income gap and abuse of workers (#3) and its abuse of (#3) gap and abuse of workers of the income understand our complicity we must in (#4), the environment wrongs. capitalism’s its treatment of teachers (#2), and capitalism for the injustice of teachers (#2), its treatment
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Rogers says, “Some of my most painful times within the party Rogers says, Are we in the Green Party here in the US falling prey to the to the falling in the US prey here Party Green we in the Are to that people come need to accept we Furthermore, cannot Party a rigid become The Green organization with after Party in to the Green If people come having worked of involvement in militarism cannot. of involvement in militarism cannot. DANGERS OF CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM we our colleagues in the struggleIn confronting justice, for social obliged to do so in the clearare purpose understanding that the It is not to demonstrate our of such challenges is to enlighten. moral superiorityown at the in the group or to gain power Such purposes destructive are expense of others. to the growth of the Party. to human rights those concerning my commitments in were OverTibet and the democracy and over, in China. movement I was belittled and ridiculed by our dogmatic leftwing that human rights selective on more and more seemed to become about why not quite honest others who were were There issues. not as a who saw nonviolence Party, they had joined the Green but simplya tactic.” as of life, and way philosophy same errors Rogers describes?same errors and supportunderstand values after Green a lifetime in, of living if After all, society. oppressive a militaristic, and contributing to, we would how such backgrounds, from accept people we didn’t in strength? grow Just because for membership. requirements Procrustean mean theyare doesn’t servedsomeone VietnamWar in the Wright Ann like Col. People William another Calley. violent, for the government who have worked and Ray McGovern, and defense military-industrial contractors—he (the complex “MIC”)—and as well as anybody, workings understand their of those opponents knowledgeable most oftenare the strongest, institutions. the party them and realize should welcome the truethe MIC, Such people can be part and import of the nature of their work. in ways people innocent the military“stop madness” struggle to
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Ahmad ends by reminding us that, “…there are ways to are “…there us that, by reminding ends Ahmad We nonviolence. and peace of way the Way, Green the is This He says, “…when people are reduced to their identities reduced “…when people are He says, www.thegreenlightny.wordpress.com/green-thoughts/petra-kelly-2/ thinking-green/chapter-9-if-there-is-to-be-a-future-it-will-be-green/ Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist) and Friends from the East Coast. (Marxist-Leninist) and Friends from Congress Workers - www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/crit-self-crit.htm Asam Ahmad. “A Note on Call-Out Culture.” - www.briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-note-on-call-out-culture It Will Is to Be a Future, Be Green.” Carl Rogers. “If There - of Marxism.” Alan MacSimóin. “The failure - http://struggle.ws/wsm/talks/marxism.html social locations synonymous become Individuals with our identities represent. and this can turn systemic analysissystems into of oppression, moral judgment…” call individuals to agents of do not reduce people out that ways of calling are that people out There social advantage. and that recognize the whole and creative, compassionate are of of viewingindividual instead simply them as representations whichthe systems they benefit.” from call. cannot to head Ahmad’s do better than SOURCES of privilege (as white, cisgender, male, etc.) and mocked as male, cisgender, of privilege (as white, each other as if our individual treating it means we’re such, MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green Because (Italics mine) If people come to the Green Party after having worked worked after having Party come to the Green If people in ways people innocent of involvement in militarism cannot. of involvement in militarism people innocent in ways They can be part of the struggle to “stop the military madness” madness” “stop the military to can be part of the struggle They in the MIC (Military Industrial Complex), we should welcome them. them. we should welcome Industrial Complex), in the MIC (Military What is not necessarily makes call-out so toxic culture content of the call-out. … of the call-out. content performance people can their wit or demonstrate where it can sometimes feel Indeed, their politics are. pure how like the performance significant than the itself is more of the call-out itself. Especially venues like in online of the call-out itself. a just calling isn’t out someone Facebook, and Twitter a public it’s private between interaction two individuals: its frequency so much as the nature and performanceits frequency as the nature so much In the context of call-out culture, it is easy to forget it is easy of call-outIn the context culture, punishment: to banish and dispose of individuals rather to banish and dispose of individuals punishment: than to engage with them as people with complicated stories and histories.” that the individual we are callingthat the individual we are out is a human can Call-out culture end up mirroring what the being, prison industrial teaches complex us about crime and Call-out culture refers to the tendency to refers Call-out among culture call-outs tend to be public, they a particularly can enable to be public, call-outs tend the one in which of activism: and academic brand armchair act of calling out is seen as an end in itself. of oppressive behaviour and language use by others. by others. behaviour and language use of oppressive can be called that out for statements and actions People on. and the list goes ableist, racist, sexist, are progressives, radicals, activists, and community activists, radicals, progressives, organizers to publicly name instances or patterns “ “ “
Ahmad goes on to suggest that there is a “totalitarian is a to suggest that there on goes Ahmad Asam Ahmad is a Canadian blackAsam Ahmad who writes about criticism
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Why? BY JOEL ROTHSCHILD ECOVILLAGERS ALLIANCE places, yet after three places, society are negligible. society are negligible. The movement started movement The and produced some of decades its impacts on with beautiful intentions the world’s most inspiring the world’s
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summer starting new ecovillages, but the barriers to joining Gaia’s Dance may be just as high. be just as high. Dance may but the barriers to joining Gaia’s starting new ecovillages, want. It doesn’t help that the location is far from the jobs, families, and community families, the jobs, help that the location is far from It doesn’t want. If enough additional especially most people of color. people rely most on, institutions the barriers maybe to their spirit could overcome people experienced life, ecovillage structure, which once made debt financing easier to come by, now makes it hard hard it makes now by, come to easier financing debt made which once structure, community’s the that help doesn’t It housing. offerto community the for affordable residents younger to the adaptations is resistant devised by the founders, governance, Dance is, in a sense, a negative inspiration too. Standing alone, it inspires many to see to many it inspires Standingalone, a negative too. inspiration in a sense, Dance is, niche lifestyle. sustainability as a strange, pocketed developers. What of exponentially a movement more pocketed we hoped would inspire developers. hard too proven has sustainabilityuntil life, of way became mainstream a ecovillages, Gaia’s the area, throughout Instead of a template for sister ecovillages to replicate. a glass case locked up by market forces. The land was already a rare find in the ‘90s. ‘90s. find in the a rare The land was already a glass case locked forces. up by market is a losing game against swarms of deep- to build on for parcels competition Now introverts enjoy well-respected solitude and clean well-respected happilyintroverts enjoy freaks keep their distinctly Flowing it all is a through tidy homes. sufficient the Free Store overflowing with books on every subject known to humankind. It is a on with books every Store overflowing to humankind. subject known the Free want eats or drinks who doesn’t no one alone where vibrant and warm community, many Yet gets sick without dailyto and no one or depressed offerings of support. its waste and carbon footprints are half those of the neighboring subdivisions. A spirit its waste and carbon footprints half those of the neighboring subdivisions. are running grounds, children the in shines independence of packsin Common the around and their lives living openly residents without judgment, queer and non-monogamous used this most powerful of foundations to build a physical manifestation of our values. to build a physical of our values. manifestation of foundations used this most powerful and a fifth it grows of the calories of the electricitygenerates a third it consumes, it uses, who saw the power of place could be equal to, perhaps greater than, the power of the power than, perhaps greater to, of place could be equal who saw the power and organizations, While others built companies, or electoral politics. institutions and the Land, Dance went backbasis of human life, to the Gaia’s political campaigns, A TALE OF TWO ECOVILLAGES A TALE visionaries The founders were started Dance Ecovillage with beautiful intentions. Gaia’s This is the first of a projected placestwo-partThis is the first of of ways to foster series a projected focusing on innovative and sustainability. integrity, equity,
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Perhaps most insidiously, a typical project begins in debt, a typical in debt, begins project most insidiously, Perhaps Structural cannot passively, be resisted oppression So a typical project typicalA project A typical project the bank, even to though cash-strapped committed members are the bank, In imagining that we can their community and the bank is not. literally out of a sick world moving and into a healed start over, we tend to skip past the one, true lies waiting. power movement’s PRODUCT PROCESS BEFORE PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT, the I visited before communities count the intentional I can’t EcoVillageLA (“LAEV”), but when I stepped inside I saw infrastructure costs of building farther from existing hubs. Yet Yet infrastructure farther costs of building existing hubs. from a typical will not even project existing neighborhoods consider and the urban of North ecovillages sites, as potential ecovillage is The presumption America can hand. one still be counted on want to be don’t and the people in them, that those buildings, No wonder even Maybe they’re unfit to be. part of an ecovillage. stays small!the movement usually bank loans for land and construction and home multiple for every prescription kind of fresh Debt is capitalism’s mortgages. It is even seen an ecovillage. a new business, a first home, start: as equals than foras equalizing—better to shoulder debt together illusions dangerous These rich land! half the one own to member wealth gap assume the pre-existing may We trick us two ways. betweencanmembers community leftbe won’t and door the at if we which, dynamics time, over up in unintended power show fail to recognize we may And it surely will. the lookout, on aren’t ensuring the debt itself as a means of structural oppression, powerlesspowerless gain power. and the powerful remain enormousin place and social patterning infrastructure a constructionchoose between housing or repaying affordable even community will tend to favor the most progressive loan, we do not have to build from the compromised resources—and resources—and the compromised not havewe do from to build we shouldn’t. and indeed got, we’vepeople—that already magically join, people “evolved” onlythat ensure and members A typical will project values. ecovillagey good with pre-endowed not evolved how of members irrespective be. they may A typical will project model. that democratic decision-making capacity community’s begin by assessing the to practicedemocracy to mitigate theidentifying how and planning in the first place, like educational equitable engagement and culturalobstacles full, to and learned to power. aversion trauma, racism, sexism, differences, ideally by housing and workplaces land unencumbered of land, development is “greenfield” So-called bad old way. built the even the most LEED New construction, anything but green. rarelySuper-Plus has a smaller new construction, Eco-Groovy ecological footprint the buildings we overall than retrofitting transportation nothing of the to say and and that’s have, already MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green so far been much easier for people to keep living in the same old easier for people to keep living so far been much ways [...] unsustainable Industrial society of momentum has the of years hundreds the Given development. of institution building and capital it has enormous in place, and social patterning infrastructure
So the “eco-village challenge” was conceived as a societal do- was conceived challenge” “eco-village So the And then, a tragic turn! Instead of asking, “howcan these tragica turn! asking, of Instead then, And Before laying out the work to be done in these cogently-these in done be to laying work the out Before When Robert Gilman first articulated “The Eco-village
18 teleporting out of a broken society teleporting out of a broken but healing it from within. We should see our purpose not as should see our purpose not as We have tended to assume that the mission is to start over, therefore therefore is to starthave tended to assume that the mission over, more power. Any institution assuming itself “color-blind” is “color-blind” assuming itself institution Any power. more to take just one almost certainly racial bias, awash in unconscious of all kinds communities and intentional Ecovillages example. GIMME SHELTER (FROM STRUCTURAL OPPRESSION) GIMME SHELTER only gives circumstances them our real wishing away Of course, been conceived, free of the expectation that capitalism, racism, racism, that capitalism, of the expectation free been conceived, our would sneak in alongside and every“ism” other harmful like a virusbeautiful intentions at the playground. over, premised on the wishful thought that anyone can start that anyone the wishful thought on from premised over, has project an ecovillage many this is how And a clean slate. beginning of a new era!” As though declaringbeginning of a new the dawn of the era!” history or the immense Age of Aquarius erases capitalism’s of all that social patterning. power hundreds of years of industrial hundreds capitalist resisted be momentum “we at the very are Gilman simply announces, and subverted?” eco-villages are such a great idea, why don’t we already live in we already don’t why idea, such a great eco-villages are He suggests an equally answer: profound them?” made?” and “what are sustainable economic activities?” activities?” “what economic sustainable are and made?” “If question: Gilman asks a profound organized bullet points, future human settlement and the “challenge” was a checklist for “challenge” human settlement and the future tackled design of ecovillage the pioneers Dutifully, there. getting “how be will decisions answeringlike questions that checklist, negligible. Why? negligible. was an idealized of vision “eco-village” the in 1991, Challenge” ecovillage movement as a whole. The movement startedThe movement with as a whole. movement ecovillage most the world’s of some and produced intentions beautiful yet after decades society on its impacts three inspiring are places, (NOT JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER OVER STARTING JUST LIKE) (NOT but the story its triumphs of ecovillage, a real isn’t Dance Gaia’s story the real north’s of the global arguably, is, and its limitations
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Structural oppression cannot be resisted oppression cannot Structural passively, given the enormous infrastructure infrastructure the enormous given passively, In the second of this two-part series, we’ll of this two-partIn the second series, summarize the Community the Land describe Co-op combineshow We’ll The good news is, contrary in its 1990s news the ecovillage to The good is, When we see our purpose not as teleporting out of a broken in formation. Joel is also working to organize Moshav Derekh Shalom, a residential center for the study and practice of nonviolence to be part of the Lancaster ecovillage. and other aligned movements already bring healing, education, education, bring already healing, and other aligned movements of just the sortand empowerment needs for its an ecovillage of these movements the work the same time, At ecovillagers. is often difficult by the housing and gentrification made more and the lack of community injustice, environmental crisis, of land—exactlycontrol what a well-organized of movement could and should offer to remedy. ecovillagers underway work LA-style make to more years’ ecovillaging many accessible to neighborhood organizers starting everywhere, with A spectrum of region. in the US Mid-Atlantic cities and towns co-op and community trust land principles have been distilled into a holistic method for cooperative property and investment stewardship that organizers can use in existing communities. cooperative with community-based education investment and justice, democracygrassroots and equity, for space to hold we’ll dip into some Finally, sustainability at the neighborhood level. neighborhood-based racialof the activist possibilities for ecovillage re-localization. and economic ecological repair, injustice reparations, continues to perpetuate itself, through many attempts to envision attempts to many through to perpetuatecontinues itself, rather sell) and product, a as community market, finance, (and social movement. process-centered than as a people- and taking their first aren’t social movements today’s formulation, have and wells generations-deep of wisdom We baby steps. limited to, but by no means including, techniqueto draw upon, experiments. of LAEV’s the lessons we find ourselves many among society within, but healing it from equity, labor suchracialorganizing for as those justice, comrades, justice, restorative economy,” “solidarity cooperatives and the These and gender equity. families, non-“traditional” queer rights, MOVEMENT green horizon magazine horizon green
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Of all the ecovillages one could photograph, Los is Angeles could photograph, Of all one the ecovillages LAEV’s mechanisms for owning and financing real estate and financing mechanisms for owning LAEV’s If the typical ecovillage is somewhat of a bubble, LAEV LAEV If the typical is somewhat of a bubble, ecovillage LAEV is retrofit from buildings that already stood in stood in that already buildings from is retrofit LAEV summer answer too could ring familiar: The inertia of industrial capitalism answer too could ring familiar: It is also true is only Los one that there One EcoVillage. Angeles decades and ask, ago three question could echo Robert Gilman’s The EcoVillagers? all living like the LA we already aren’t why and as a model for others to follow. A MOVEMENT FOR ECOVILLAGERS priorities, coming before this exciting building technique this exciting or before coming priorities, its weaknesses as a In short, landscapethat photogenic design. very its are product marketable human community, as a strengths forest. Its deepest beauty is in the diversity of its people and forest. its foremost and first processes, its of nature healing organic, the social perhaps the last one you’d pick for a glossy magazine. There are are There pickglossy magazine. for a perhaps you’d the last one lush by surrounded not is It eco-buildings. architect-designed no financed with institutional debt, but rather through a kind of but through rather debt, financed with institutional barn-raisingfinancial individuals involved of that hundreds lending modest amounts to support the cause. common financial need and, for the historically a marginalized, financial need and, common propertyform of financial justice—without allowing speculation was not LAEV most radical, to pass inequity Perhaps forward. ecovillage’s land, and therefore its residents, from the profit- from its residents, and therefore land, ecovillage’s A limited-equity housing co-op gives seeking property market. the opportunityall residents to hold wealth in their homes—a are also designed to be a healing partare of the industrial capitalist trust A community land the protects worldit. know as we have wrought. Rather than futilely declare the status quo’s Ratherthan futilely declarestatus quo’s the have wrought. embraces this approach them as abusive patterns null and void, opportunities and help each together other repair. to come supporting life amidst the dust and toxins. Those “hundreds Those supportinglife toxins. and dust the amidst building and capitalof years of institution development” are and trauma they the brokenness with along taken as a given, ecovillager. ecovillager. out, breathing in, breathing like a living lung, tries to be more was invited to stay put, either as members of the ecovillage’s of the ecovillage’s either as members put, to stay was invited or otherwise if they chose as tenants to join, new housing co-op, Everyone assumed to be a potential was before. like they were EcoVillagers never imagined they could just start over. People People EcoVillagersnever theyimagined startjust could over. When that heals. a center for work so they created needed help, everyone original its bought there apartment building, LAEV Koreatown, a central LA neighborhood rich a central LA in access to services Koreatown, The LA histories and also of violence and abuse. and institutions, class on cooperativism, open to the public, taking place in the taking place open to the public, class cooperativism, on as well as by the community in, I walked the moment commons and the bicyclefood hub programs. and countless public co-op immediately that this community took a more realistic approach, approach, realistic immediately a more this community that took was LAEV to change the world. promise with more one evidenced by the as a platformconceived activism in the city, for 2018
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green horizon magazine horizon green PARTY AND POLITICS AND PARTY unning for elected office again was the furthestunning for elected and has my mind thought from Prior twenty years ago. JerseyNew in 1998, in ranI since been Congress US for The need for alternatives political than to the two mainstream parties now is greater The presence of Nader in the presidential races of 1996 and 2000 provided a races of 1996 and 2000 provided in the presidential of Nader The presence onlynot is Party alive and Green the and years20 about later, are, we here Well, So much has happened in the world—and in US politics—since 1998. In 2000, Al In 2000, So has happened in the world—and much in US politics—since 1998. After being harshly criticized for running against a “progressive Democrat”After (Rush harshly being criticized“progressive for running against a out in droves. For those leaning Republican, the message that Washington, D.C. is D.C. Washington, the message that those leaning Republican, For out in droves. branded antithetical Trump to policies and committed corrupted by big money, broken, racist, out a nativist, brought unfortunately, that, to American had a resonance interests the state. In 2018 it has been running twovisibility high for campaigns—mythe state. own US SenateDemocratincumbent against Robert Menendez and Republican challenger in District 7 against Republican for US Congress and Diane Moxley’s Bob Hugin, Timincumbent Leonard Malinowski. Lance and Democrat choices”— voices and more It certainly“more seems like the country for is ready ever. The advocated—evenas Nader if the leadership of the establishment parties is not. victory that many in 2016 showed Trump’s popularity of Bernie Sanders and Donald old Democratic and Republican the tired from voters rallied a message that differed around independent about political parties taking them for granted, Worried party platforms. For or another anti-establishment candidate. attracted to one voters were and young inclusive them message brought socialist, Sanders’ Democratic-leaning independents, Nonetheless, he still would have been declared the winner of the race if he had Nonetheless, successfully of the Florida Seemingly recount fought for a thorough ambivalent, vote. acquiesced when the US Supreme Court Gore terminated the recount prematurely Bush. W. basically to George the election throwing process, arguably and the oppose voters some made Democrats, post for whipping convenient thinking at the time that it might take a I remember developmentparty. of a third the alternative from parties to recover for the nation’s 20 years or more, generation, received. campaign Nader’s vilification that it is increasingly electoral active campaigns in many throughout well in New Jersey, elections. In addition, I got a full-time job as the Executive Director of a then-40- a full-time job as the Executive I got Director In addition, elections. organization dedicatedyear-old nonprofit to nuclear disarmamentand striving to shift the militaryfederal community needs from spending away that address programs toward Working more. and protection environmental transportation, public sucheducation, as a couple of years it took In fact, “politically neutral.” remain I had to for a nonprofit, members of the organization trustedbefore as that I would perform my responsibilities the Greens. political bias toward without showing Executive Director was Bush (R) and Ralph Nader W. to George election (D) lost the presidential Gore Unfortunately, demonizedsupposedlyhaving for Gore. drawn crucial from away votes carry He failed to loss. analysisthis Gore’s Al for other important missed many reasons Tennessee! He failed to carry state of his own Arkansas. state of home Bill Clinton’s to that race, I had been on the New Jersey ticket as Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential vice-presidential the New Jersey ticket I had been on as Ralph Nader’s to that race, running with dozens having worked the basis of mate in 1996—on of grass roots chemical organizations of toxic matters local and on governments environmental I ran as a Green. Jersey for New governor in 1997, that, Following pollution. in subsequent Party the Green I lost my enthusiasm for representing Holt) in 1998, R
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For me, personally, 2018 represents an unusual and welcomed an unusual 2018 represents personally, me, For Our two federal-office campaigns will also have to address uniquely tellto truththe are we positioned about Greens, As in early 2015. Madelyn ran with the Green Party in 1996 as Ralph Nader’s vice- in early 2015. Madelyn ran with the Green Party in 1996 as Ralph Nader’s presidential running mate for the state of New Jersey and then for Governor in 1997 and for US Congress in 1998. An Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Madelyn has a B.A. Rutgers-Newark. how both mainstream political parties both mainstream how have lost their ability to policies that benefit the people, implement, let alone discuss, have no corporate donors We and overseas. at home both here for to appease (like AIPAC, to alienate and no large PACs If we are the truth. compromise to thus no reason example), who will pressure is no big donor there pushed to back down, the can criticize forces, the Israeli occupation We us to do so. corporate and immigration, playing of politics with DACA or the ridiculous for proposals of public education, take-over We’ll walla border-spanning between the US and Mexico. equally as criticalbring of the to the race, independent voices Democrats as of the Republicans. wiser opportunity to electoralto return politics—20 years older, radicalized!and more the dysfunctionality Over of the that time, American the political system increasingly evident, has become establishment parties and the electorate have steadily lost support, call Ralph Nader’s for alternative candidates. a desire has expressed has never appropriate! been more choices” voices and more “more for Americans and Latinx communities. Ourcampaigns haveAmericans Latinx and communities. begging the standard rangingfrom comments, generated many the “allow” candidatesfor the race the to to withdraw from peace the issues of war and that applause to Democrat to win, no mainstream since will finally be in a public forum, raised political party offers even to the every-growing opposition token military policy budget and the US foreign of endless war. Vladimir Putin and Democrats by the that the idea promoted The hysteria around Russia meddled elections. in the 2016 US not onlythis accusation to absolve attempts the Democrats from it responsibilitytheir lackluster campaign, for any presidential candidatesalso casts on critical suspicion policy, of US foreign even those supportive of the peace talks between the US and This hyper- initiative an sought by South Korea. North Korea, partisanship policies and acts as a brake on damages domestic believemakes it that We positive peace. for programs promoting of an independent political partythe presence vitally important— even while painting a target on green horizon magazine horizon green PARTY AND POLITICS AND PARTY
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Every a candidate by race in 2018 has been won who was RCV Implementation details variedImplementation significantly the three across compared to non-ranked contests. Winners emerge with greater to non-ranked contests. compared It’s mandates. and real supportconsensus their communities in norm. time to make it a national routinely outperforms either single-choice plurality or two-round serving to avoid situations runoff systems election by this measure, the winner earned plurality onlywhere elected in low or were measuringof way additional An runoff low-turnout a election. what proportion ofsuccess at voter engagement is to consider does not affectThis measure the voters highly ranked the winner. the relative beyond result but expands the of course, the outcome, to their rivals.support winner compared of the Such levels by at least 60% of voters. ranked in their top three of support that even demonstrate of those backing many the Despite a challenger comfortable with the winner. are strongest and extremely fought closehard in San election mayoral Francisco, voters and Mark 47% of 2nd place finisher Leno’s for example, voters ranked the winner finisher Jane Kim’s 37% of third-place Winners in these candidates. London their top three among Breed mandate and have compelling convincing earningraces a more are voters. in ways that satisfy more to govern reasons CONCLUSION: positive campaigns drawing relatively that are high turnout from the opportunity seem to appreciate to rank their Voters voters. and they do so without making serious when errors choices, New Mexico voters statewide in the 2016 presidential election. election. statewide voters Mexico New presidential 2016 the in 65% ranked all five contest, mayoral voted in the who Of those 85.4% SanIn Francisco, ranked 88% and two. least at candidates, In Maine Democratic primaries for of voters ranked two. at least nearly ranked nine in ten voters two. and Governor, Congress earned winners majorities absolute of the RCV All of Maine’s half of than in more runoff winners In contrast, vote. round first primarythe 23 congressional winners this year actually earned fewer runoffround. votes than in the first equipment used and San Francisco Both SantaFe jurisdictions. tallies to be released round-by-round the that allowed theythat meaning ran processed, immediately ballots were once final as were results and RCV night, election tallies on RCV to longer took election Maine’s processed. as ballotssoon were for the ballot because longer it took results, RCV report final data to arrive in the state capital. SEEK HOW RCV CANDIDATES OF OUTCOMES: FAIRNESS BROADER SUPPORT: RCV intuitivemost is ensuring support. earnthat winners more green horizon magazine horizon green The evidence PARTY AND POLITICS AND PARTY
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green horizon magazine horizon green a demand for elections we can trust, that are accurate, secure and just, and free and free and just, secure accurate, that are we cana demand for elections trust, he 2016 Presidential recount was not simply a call to retabulate the vote. It was was not simply recount a call the vote. to retabulate he 2016 Presidential PARTY AND POLITICS AND PARTY Given the evidence of cyberattacks of the voting system components in multiple on against the litigation we brought After was thwarted the recount in Pennsylvania, As you might remember, the recount initiative was launched several the recount weeks after might remember, As you T whammy of dubious paperless voting machines and onerous recount procedures that whammy of dubious paperless procedures recount voting machines and onerous of voting examination “forensic” The suit also calls extensive for an prevent verification. and softwareequipment to verify in order the accuracy of the vote. tampering—whether by foreign powers, criminal networks, domestic partisans, or partisans, domestic criminal networks, powers, tampering—whether by foreign corporations the voting software. that control the as well as the general systemic hacking so commonplace, that has become 2016, need for cross-checkingWisconsin, the cybersecurity In is paramount. of our elections rightlegal our acknowledged to Commission Elections the that fact the despite the voting machine corporations tried to prevent examine voting software, us from The effort of private software to shield companies sharing with the public. the results the need to put the scrutinythis critical underscores from of our elections component infrastructure back of our elections into the public domain. right a double- to vote through constitutional state for effectively violating its citizens’ vague, obstructive to rules voters in each of 9,000+ precincts at least three (requiring vague, file notarizedall within mere requests by undefined deadlines locations; at unknown of color communities under-resourced Wisconsin, In the election). days following instead by machines votes recounted having their hand recount, denied a reliable were whose accuracy was in doubt. BE SUBJECT TO EXAMINATION VOTING MACHINE SOURCE-CODE MUST experts despite years of warnings from about the vulnerability of voting Incredibly, has never of voting machine there source- been an in-depth examination machines, by computer which should be conducted Such an examination, code after an election. or interference, intentional would check for evidence of human error, voting experts, from the scourge of Jim Crow. With democracy increasingly under fire, trustworthyWith democracy increasingly under fire, the scourge of Jimfrom Crow. critical more than ever. are elections calledIt verifyingfor states concluded. was election 2016 the three in vote the with vulnerable voting machines and statisticallyunlikely that begged for results verification—including polls exit ballots of numbers high and deviations large from While the world democracies around as a use recounts lines. with blank presidential fought tooth and nail by the Republican were Party the US recounts safeguard, routine In Michigan, establishment and largely by the Democratic leadership. Party ignored In Pennsylvania, political operatives partisan leaned on judges to stop the recount. of thwartedcallingvoters of nightmare thousands were a bureaucratic by a recount for Democracy?
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After voting our effortsDetroit’s of revealed the failure challengelegal our state to from pressure the Pennsylvania, In recount, as well as grassroots engagement by concerned citizens, wellcitizens, as concerned by engagement grassroots as recount, As Michigan litigation. recount ongoing from and legal pressure recount Senate“Jill Minority Stein’s Leader Jim said, Ananich in our election mistakes and has led to improvements showed out if the recount have come Those things wouldn’t process. happen.” didn’t machines that voting announced state officials across machines, Wisconsin by the 2018 primaries. the state would be replaced decertifying a voting machine discovered suit, followed soon which inaccurate to haveduring counts, produced the recount including all Racine of County. 136 municipalities, used in was officials decertified the first time that Wisconsin This marked a that admission remarkable a little-noticed but voting machine, the officiallyresults had been distortedreported 2016 election by voting machine errors. organizing by grassroots with tireless combined laws, election in perhaps the biggest has resulted integrityelection advocates, Secretary of State Pennsylvania’s In Aprilstep forward 2018, yet. SOME PROGRESS BEING MADE SOME PROGRESS Almost a yearafter and a half campaign first the recount raised finally a significant Congress took step in the right the alarm, to allocate voting $380 million toward 2018, in March direction has there And infrastructure election and security. improving This states. recount in eachbeen important of the three progress exposed by the to problems brought is thanks to public attention
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Despite years of warnings from experts about the vulnerability of voting machines, of voting machines, from experts about the vulnerability Despite years of warnings fall / there has never been an in-depth examination of voting machine source-code after an election. there has never been an in-depth examination of voting machine Although the investigation was unwarranted, we used the was unwarranted, Although the investigation We’ve also had to defend the recount from false accusations false accusations from had to defend also the recount We’ve summer defense against the interference from any source, foreign or domestic. Expanding on Expanding on or domestic. foreign source, any interference from we leveraged in the Russia the intense media interest this theme, to broadcast an urgent callinvestigation for a comprehensive press coverage as an opportunity coverage press to to give valuable exposure crucial Russiagate—namely, on message campaign’s the recount integritythat election is the best defense against election or the campaign to Russian interference, Burr and the Senate Burr or the campaign to Russian interference, interview. did not seek a follow-up Intelligence Committee Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald described Prize-winningkind this journalist Greenwald Glenn to Failing “way McCarthyism.” beyond of political targeting as recount that could link the find anything in their investigation states, had the recount been allowed to proceed. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, proceed. to been allowed recount the had states, to a set of politically- seemed to have responded the Committee Pulitzer me. to investigate motivated smears in its decision connections to anything that happened in any campaigns.” This to anything campaigns.” that happened in any connections would have given that the recount is no small irony, interference by Russians—or other intruder—in any critical to Committee Chairman Richard Burr, “She [ Chairman Burr, Richard to Committee Jill Stein] was that Where’d actually that the one campaign. initiated a recount Russian any to see if there’s look want to We from? money come was cited by the Senate Intelligence Committee as a major reason was cited by the Senatereason as a major Intelligence Committee with my appearance along of our campaign, for their investigation According to advocate for diplomacy. conference at a Moscow surrounding the Russian interference investigations. The recount The recount Russian the surrounding interference investigations. 2018
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To effectively deal with foreign election interference, we must we must effectively interference, election with foreign deal To consistent The Emergency would provide Commission We can break the stranglehold of big money on our elections by can the stranglehold our elections of big money on break We and support local Green candidates in fighting for radical progressive, radical for fighting in candidates Green local support and sustainable solutions that are critical for the future we deserve. the cost of political campaigns. We can expand voter choice We the cost of political campaigns. Voting, Rankedand end fear-based through Choice elections for what they their preference which liberates voters to show really want instead of feeling that they need to vote against what electorate that the we can is informed And ensure they dislike. range choicesof they’ve greater the about clamoringbeen for— not controlled a new debate commission by creating presidential by the two establishment parties. only not US is the that the fact election victim of a address Given our but a leading perpetrator of it as well. interference, it is simply and unethical to expect unrealistic track record, elections of foreign the sovereignty countriesother to respect Effectively election ending well. as so doing to commit we unless diplomacy international and treaties. interference requires advocacy and watch-dogging to public education, long-term to achieve truly required to the reforms resistance fair overcome is a critical Establishing this Commission first step elections. in our democracy confidence with a Americans’ restoring toward and just. secure voting systemwe can trust—oneaccurate, that is cybersecurity universal post-election rigorous best practices, begin To as warranted. recounts post-election and routine audits, privacy be must protections the abuses of big data, addressing In the rush communications. data and online for personal created must we however, news, fake and propaganda against guard to that the rights speech and political are ensure of free opposition and protected. restored establishing public financing for political air and free campaigns reduce which would greatly time for ballot-qualified candidates, green horizon magazine horizon green PARTY AND POLITICS AND PARTY This is quite a turnaround... This machines by the 2019 elections with voting systems that use paper ballots. use paper ballots. systems that with voting by the 2019 elections machines In April 2018, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State ordered all counties to replace their aging voting replace their aging all counties to State ordered Secretary of Pennsylvania’s 2018, April In The recount initiative has calledThe recount for a nonpartisan Emergency Voter choice in the United States been suppressed has long Voter While important recount battles have been won, there have there While importanthavebattles been won, recount
26 to vote for everyone. We need a rapid transition to paper ballots, need a rapid to paper ballots, transition We to vote for everyone. immediate and longer-term solutions. Such a Commission solutions. immediate and longer-term end must We urgently-neededcould advance many solutions. right the constitutional schemes and ensure voter suppression manipulation and military-style and manipulation psyops. Justice to oversee Voting and Protection Election on Commission what they value. The Cambridge scandal Analytica-Facebook what they value. the abuse of privateunveiled a massive scale data on for the purpose vulnerable individuals for mass of microtargeting candidates through restricted ballot access, media blackouts, media blackouts, candidates restricted ballot access, through that and first-past-the-post elections debates, exclusion from rather than for encourage people to vote against what they fear, voting, elimination of same-day registration, and gerrymandering. registration, of same-day elimination voting, by a system that limits alternative parties and independent gutted key sections of the Voting Rights Act and worsened voter Rights Act Voting gutted key of the sections underway already suppression tactics like voter ID laws, through cutbacks early on Check, Interstate Cross voter purges through color. The Supreme Court’s Citizens flung United decision color. that has been corruptingwide open the floodgates of big money ShelbyThe County 2013of decision decades. for elections our Greens are aware that the integritythe that aware beenhas are elections our of Greens degraded increasingly denied, as votes are under assault for years, and otherwise especially of for communities interfered with, ELECTION INTEGRITY AND THE OVERALL REFORM OF OUR ELECTION INTEGRITY AND THE OVERALL ELECTORAL SYSTEM 11 of 13 states that use paperless machines voting will still not to an according to fully enough money receive them, replace analysis Center for Justice. by the Brennan vote. This can only hurt the cause of election integrity. And, And, This can only hurt the cause integrity. of election vote. to of $380 million appropriation although the Congressional voting machines is a step in the right insecure direction, replace also been setbacks. LegislationWisconsin in Michiganalso been setbacks. and will recounts to verify to use the difficult in the future make it more This is quite a turnaround, considering that Pennsylvania state consideringPennsylvania that a turnaround, quite is This officials had previously to our lawsuit that response claimed in voting system was fine and needed no changes. the state’s ordered all counties to replace their aging voting machines by all counties to replace ordered systemsvoting with elections 2019 ballots. the paper use that
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In her book, In her book, A summer that majority. Using the leverage of position at UVA, and later at Virginia Tech and Tech Virginia and later at the leverage Using at UVA, of position that majority. that maintained that government officials acted in their own best interest, i.e. getting i.e. own best interest, acted in their officials that maintained that government that that the only and to combat way the will of the majority, by following re-elected, willon the of act the rulesto alter was couldn’t officials those so that government of of Virginia (UVA). He set out to develop two economic theories, “public choice theory,” choice theory,” “public He set out to develop theories, two economic Virginiaof (UVA). to change other areas of the status quo. of the status quo. to change other areas use of the 14th Amendment posed a threat not only to State’s rights, but to his idea of rights, not only to State’s posed a threat use of the 14th Amendment the ruling by the He perceived as an overreach “individual liberty.” built on social order federal engineer society to government the future could be used in that weapon and a Knight and F.A. Hayek (author, (author, Hayek Knight and F.A. Buchanan was University of Chicago and zealous advocates order. of the market personally by the ruling affronted in IDEAS TAKE SHAPE IDEAS TAKE architect partThe first the of on the chief the influences examines of the book Early mentors included Frank a Southerner. James McGillBuchanan, movement, could no longer dictate policies that adverselycould no longer and privilege affected of the the power the “makers.” minority, a Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, and many more. more. and many the Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, a Sound Economy, MacLean's the origins documents book and rise of the Radical Right whose agenda “takers,” the was to change and lock up the rulesthe majority, so that of government democracy” that began in the fifties and sixties. It was a secret was that campaign secret a It was fiftiesthe began in that sixties. and democracy” quietly of large network and a the Koch brothers funded by millions of dollars from Citizens for the Heritage Foundation, including the Cato Institute, donors, wealthy the ability of the electorate to protect their rights. the ability their rights. of the electorate to protect capitalism from “save libertarian to of a stealth movement activism was the result disempower labor unions, undo environmental protection rules, suppress voter turnout, voter turnout, suppress rules, protection undo environmental labor unions, disempower Those and privatize such as public education. public resources rewrite many tax codes, the authority reducing and limit to focus on of government and reach appeared actions by Nancy MacLean, Viking 2017 by Nancy Press MacLean, Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America for Plan Stealth Right’s Radical Democracy in Chains, Chains, in Democracy Review by Bob Hawk: Bob by Review 2018
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For this new Cato’s mission was also one of demolition: of demolition: was also one mission this new Cato’s For it sought nothing less than the annihilation of statism it sought nothing less than the annihilation (p.141). in America” “ Buchanan’s focus now was on permanently was on changing focus now the Buchanan’s Charles Koch, CEO of the second-largest privatelyof the second-largest CEO Charles held Koch, confines the theoretical beyond was expanding The movement bit by bit, in a manner that cumulatively, yet quietly, could yet quietly, in a manner that cumulatively, bit by bit, begin to radically of American society” relations alter the power This included a media campaign of generating mistrust (p.177). in the viability the public and misinformation among of Social “job-killing” effect the effectiveness the government, of Security, of public education, the failure regulations, of environmental and divide of tactics and fearmedicine mongering, “socialized” becameThe buzzwords accounts, individual savings conquer. and school vouchers. laws, right-to-work single-rate flat tax, of the university to an activism that would insert those foot- budget director, such as Reagan’s of power, soldiers into positions and Meese III, Edwin adviser, Reagan’s Stockman, David A. of the Commission director research Reagan’s Stephen Moore, at program Buchanan’s Graduate students from Privatization. on supported by funding from UniversityGeorge Mason (GMU), would be tapped Trust, Koch Charitable and the Scaife Family colleague at Buchanan’s to fill in the administration. positions School of Law, former dean of GMU’s Henry Manne, GMU, summer legal training in applying had provided market free analyseseconomic professors for law legal decision-making to was so successful that by 1990, The program and federal judges. federal judiciary to a Koch- had been treated “40% of the U.S. (p.195) backed curriculum.” be would officials public that “so Constitution, the i.e. rules, legally offering from constrained new to the social programs their behalf even on when public or engaging in regulations He realized (p.184). demanding them” were vast constituencies after the push to end of the Kemp-Roth tax cut and the failure attack work. not would frontal a that however, SocialSecurity, even if kind of crab walk, The strategy“a became game of a long advancing misleading claims to take terrainit required in order company in America, was also influenced by the Mont Pelerin by the Mont was also influenced in America, company founded who later Harper, “Baldy” Society of the works through for Humane Studiesthe Institute (IHS) to locate and cultivate advocate an ardent Koch, liberty. the fight for economic leaders for himself for private schooling and voucher nationwide, programs and became financial backer a of MPS, was admitted to the was during It the mid-seventies that Koch met Buchanan, IHS. to lend financial support went on both of whom and intellectual a libertarian training to the Cato Institute, respectively, support, “full-time institute to develop whose the disciplined cadre as a militant minority of foot-soldier devotioncause, to the purity would assure and continuity while building ideologues, (p.140). on others” influence the ranks expanding the cadre’s and green horizon magazine horizon green MATTERS THAT MATTER THAT MATTERS , and Wilson E. Schmidt, then President then President Schmidt, Wilson and E. , Calculus of Consent) During Buchanan into his orbit drew the next decades,
28 Foundations. profits and private and legal our of cornerstones the profits (become) wealth corporate effortsThose funded by many were 126). (p. system” and Smith Richardson Scaife, as well as by the Olin, donors future Supreme Court Justice, Lewis F. Powell Jr., focused on focused on Jr., Powell Lewis Supreme F. Courtfuture Justice, mobilizing corporate America to transform law and politics to of corporate of and enhancement “protection that the ensure Simultaneously, Buchanan’s colleagues and free-market colleaguesand free-market Buchanan’s Simultaneously, libertarians Henry such as Professor Manne (head of the Center at the UniversityLaw and Economics of Miami) and By the early Buchanan came to realize that it seventies, that in domains to convert“necessary people of power was (p.116). and the courts” the media, business, politics, mattered: Buchanan was at Virginia Tech. Tech. VirginiaBuchanan was at IDEAS IN ACTION at UVA, specifically from the William Volker Fund (whose Volker specifically the William from at UVA, of the was a vehement opponent Luhnow, Harold President, while Trusts Charitable the Scaife and from Family New Deal), of Private Treasury. deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Nixon’s funding started in to support to roll public choice scholarships members of the Mont Perlerin Society (MPS), Colgate Darden Colgate Darden Society Perlerin members of the Mont (MPS), to the founder of the American(son-in-law Liberty League, (co-author with Buchanan Tullock Gordon du Pont), Irenee George Mason University, Buchanan started to organize a cadre University, George Mason of like-minded operatives. of, by and for the people? by and of, decimating our foundational decimating our being notion of government Buchanan/Koch libertarian Buchanan/Koch successful in movement been To what extent has the what extent To
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The main argument of the book is that these new developments already are curtailing is that these new of the book The main argument are developments already T for Being Late). It would policy. the UBI should be a national poor, remain so that workers by all, shared of climatehelp to open new possibilities to mitigate the oncominng change. some energy-intensive machines. This is especially important and food in agriculture energy-intensivesome machines. as ten calories as much for which uses the most energy, and distribution, production each calory produced. with hope for a planet threatened but it fails to provide for people who lose their jobs, urban liberated from who are It could easily be designed to help people, climate change. to find newresettle independence as they ruralAmerica replace our and jobs, raise food to numbers of people growing are There obsolete and energy intensive industrial food system. A UBI could help to make this but can to buy land. not afford farming, who would enjoy Act. with a New Homesteading in conjunction Or it could be proposed possible. Friedman, L. Thomas by (See book recent the prosperous. more future our a value-added tax. He sees UBI as a kind of human capitalism, which would maximize He sees UBI as a kind of human capitalism, a value-added tax. whichAndrew for a universal basic income, Proposals human well-being and fulfillment. and others have called a guaranteed annual wage, Dividend,” “Freedom also calls a Yang continue as globalization and automation historyhave a long and now, and wide support, law. it should become for Americans, jobs to reduce TWO MAJOR WEAKNESSES his makes Yang Mr. two way the in weaknesses major are there Unfortunately, neglects The first is that his vision climate change as caused by burning proposal. freight more Instead of self-driving trucks, term is in his index. Neither fossil fuels. be replacing But we do live in a time when human labor may be shipped by rail. may where automation is replacing workers; he calls it “The Great Displacement.” For For “Thecallshe Displacement.” it Great workers; replacing is automation where as self-driving trucks evolveexample, and another 7 truck 3.5 million some drivers, that servemillion workers at risk losing their jobs of are the needs of truck drivers, Virtually including by artificial 45). jobs could be replaced all intelligence, routine (p. by medical work doctors. much ADULT FOR EVERY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH in Afterreview effects, social corrosive its thorough and and jobs detailed of a loss the of a universal basic income in part for his solution the author argues three: the first two parts, is not quite enough to liveThis on thousand dollars for every(UBI) of one a month adult. reasons also gives He convincing the incentiveto earn is not likelyand more. to destroy through it be done and proposes can this large expenditure, our government afford why advanced robotics, smartphones, drones, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, the virtual reality, and augmented 3D printing, drones, smartphones, advanced robotics, The book 70.) (p. and nanotechnology” digital currencies, genomics, Internet things, of than workers affects and more comprehensive is more revolution argues that this electronic the number of farm workers. the industrial in agriculture that reduced revolution The the opportunity and will people to do so. increasingly of jobs for many continue and the middle part of the book demoralizing, the least, to say are, effects workers on first partThe details of the book describes the social effects of massive unemployment. The book was The book The War on The War Studies at Western Michigan Studies at Western University in Kalamazoo some years ago. He has also been a and farmer organic part-time MAYNARD KAUFMAN MAYNARD retired from teaching courses on Religion and Environmental by Andrew Yang. The Yang. by Andrew The Truth About America’s AboutTruth America’s The
Alliance in 1991. organized Michigan Organic Food and Farm 30 Basic Income is Our Future. Basic Income is Our Future. Hachettepublished in 2018 by Books. subtitle more accuratelysubtitle more describes the book: Why Universal Disappearing and Jobs This is a book reviewThis is a book of People Normal MAYNARD KAUFMAN MAYNARD The Need for Universal Basic Income Basic Universal for Need The
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In Florida, a state which suffers simultaneously from too much and too little water, In Florida, and too little water, a state which too much suffers simultaneously from With a population of some 9 million people, Israel needs about 600 million Israel With 9 million people, of some a population The answer to such critics is provided by Israel, a country which, according to according a country which, by Israel, The answer to such critics is provided Today, a more potent technology, once dismissed as insufficiently effective, too insufficientlyas dismissed once effective, technology, potent more a Today, Of course, he was absolutely right. Desalination is the answer, turning salty seawater is the answer, Desalination he was absolutely right. Of course, summer edge water treatment technologies, powered by solar energy, could help clean up the by solar energy, powered technologies, edge water treatment South Korea and Russia. These US companies need our protection and nurturing. need our protection These US companies South and Russia. Korea the use of these new cutting- polluted water and sewageas well as from problems, and Venezuela. This is summarized in a booklet titled “How the World Gets Purified World the “How This is summarized titled in a booklet Venezuela. and at risk of so- in this field are companies of our most innovative some However, Water.” market” corporate raiding and patent infringement“free by the likes of China, called example, Pure Aqua Inc. provides a range of cutting-edge osmosis desalination systems, a range systems, of cutting-edge osmosis desalination provides Inc. Pure Aqua example, not only in the US but also in foreign small to medium-sized facilities, from production UAE, Qatar, Israel, Iran, Egypt, Canada, Bangladesh, Angola, countries such as Algeria, DESALINATION IN THE US AND WORLDWIDE DESALINATION For companies. desalination of first-ratea number to innovative home The US is proposed desalination plants in Israel can provide almost 800 million cubic meters almost 800 million can plants in Israel desalination provide proposed half the average $30 per household per month—about at approximately cost of public water supplyconventional per household in the USA. more freshwater than it needs.” freshwater more Existing and naturally what’s water a year(beyond available). cubic meters of fresh Scientific American “One of the driest countries earthsummarizes makes on now this way: the situation variants of “seawater reverse osmosis,” pushing salty pushing water through or contaminated reverse osmosis,” “seawater variants of Some critics still question water. emerging as safe and potable fresh special membranes, but they better think twice. the technical viability and economic of such methodology, life. It makes use of new solar technology of times the potential for life. with hundreds the necessaryproducing Of chemical mechanical and electrical, energyto do the job. the most successful have been available, new technologiesthe many now desalination not be scaled up for high volume civil, industrial and agricultural purposes. industrial and agricultural purposes. not be scaled up for high volume civil, is rightly getting a new and a new look expensive and detrimental to the environment, in some parts of the world will cost nearly as much as a gallon of gasoline. The idea of partsin some of the world will cost nearly as a gallon of gasoline. as much needs met crew shower warships have long Navy example, For new. isn’t desalination methodology But that could by means of small-scale technology. steam condensation NEW ADVANCES IN SOLAR AND DESALINATION TECHNOLOGY IN SOLAR AND DESALINATION NEW ADVANCES of clean when a gallon not be far off may but the day water always that way, It wasn’t into fresh drinking water, piping it to where it is needed, in homes and for agriculture, agriculture, for and homes in needed, is it where to it piping drinking water, fresh into and using virtually solar energy limitless to drive the system. “Worried about risinglevels? sea “Worried Drink it!” Desalination
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We don’t balk at the cost of a manned flight to Mars, which manned flight to Mars, balk at the cost of a don’t We be must however, safeThe by-products, of these disposal and global water crisis the national to seems The solution Consider the comparative costs of the popular idea of a manned Consider Let’s save our little Blue-Green Planet. After all, there is no there AfterLet’sPlanet. all, save little Blue-Green our Let’s put the needs of our Certainly Mars. not on Alt-Planet B. American citizens and the health of our Planet Earth first. route to and on the Red Planet, and their safe return, have been and their safe return, the Red Planet, to and on route probably That’s $100 billion. to total over estimated by NASA the fresh for cost of providing than the total investment greater water needs of every county state or parched in the USA. $90 saving some the price, could do at one-tenth a robot water do we balk at state and nation-spanning why So, billion. but only which not salt, out filters purification, and desalination metals and other impurities fertilizers, pesticides, also microbes, our water supply?from to prevent leakage back into the environment. carefully managed, energysolar of use The drivepush to and plants conversion the an extensive of pipelines will network the water through save 2 and CO and reduce such as oil, money and other resources land and water. in the air, gases and emissions other greenhouse a win-win opportunity it’s for Potentially jobs. It will provide everyone.. just as our local postman to go, is the way Desalination clear: have the funds. We not to. afford can’t We affordable. It’s said. for success are essential ingredients The three Mars can wait. Will. and (3) Political (2) Good Planning, (1) Understanding, income tax rates, which is unlikely. The fair taxes not paid to The fair taxes which is unlikely. tax rates, income far reasons) (for ideologicalthe US government or self-interest safe water coverage. needed funding for nationwide the exceed rocket Just building the cost ship would space flight to Mars. But the total ten-year costs including program about $6 billion. alive en the cost of keeping astronauts fuel, software, hardware, green horizon magazine horizon green MATTERS THAT MATTER THAT MATTERS county for about $75 per household per month. This price can eventually be reduced.. price can eventually This $75 per household per month. county for about In California, for example, San Diego County has recently invested in a new $ 1 billion desalination 1 billion desalination in a new $ recently invested County has San Diego for example, In California, These are big numbers. How can the US and individual states How big numbers. These are In California, for example, San County Diego recently has example, for In California,
program which is expected initially to cover the drinking water needs of some 3.5 million people in the 3.5 million needs of some water the drinking initially to cover is expected which program 32 either find offsetting budget savings, or legislate more equitable or legislate more either find offsetting budget savings, that, water supply for itself. will begin to pay that, we should “Pay-Go,” such of afford costs? Under the concept California’s 40 million citizens 40 million as well as fruit and other orchards California’s which 3 billion cubic meters could total some needs, agriculture After to about $1.5 billion. might come water a year, of fresh average investment cost of a standard desalination plant or average desalination cost of a standard investment to $100 could be reduced system 5 million persons to cover cost of covering the initial investment all of this rate, At million. COST/BENEFIT OF INVESTMENT IN DESALINATION It is estimated that with the development efficient of still more the of scale, and taking advantage of economies technologies, also serving and New Nevada states such as Arizona, parched Mexico. California such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Eventually, Eventually, California such as Los and San Angeles Francisco. large diameter pipelines can be extended inland to meet drinking but not only California, throughout needs, water and agriculture million people in the county for about $75 per household per This price as it was in Israel. can eventually be reduced, month. in centers Similarpopulation major for made being are plans invested in a newinvested which program is $1 billion desalination expected initially the drinking 3.5 to cover needs of some water water management strategy, one that can one make an impressive water management strategy, to human health and developmentcontribution in Florida and other states. provide fresh water for community and agricultural purposes. water for community and agricultural fresh purposes. provide and “Made in America,” technologies, “osmosis” These proven complex a of component one just constitute sun, the by powered and coastal waterways. Networks of medium-sizedand coastal waterways. Networks and smaller can plants and equipment help to solvetreatment sewage and as well as problems, septic system and disposal waste treatment sending cleansed fresh water South via natural, environmentally- sending cleansed water South fresh via natural, the where landscapes to the Everglades, treatment friendly, to pollute lagoons our West instead of East and water is needed, water entering into, being stored in, and exiting from, Lake and exiting from, in, being stored water entering into, This could facilitate Okeechobee in the center of the state.
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regarding the same subject, with views very the same subject, similar to regarding Jacobson group’s 100 percent renewable plan]. 100 percent group’s Jacobson 2012) both arguing that the world radically must its reduce A 100 Percent Renewable Energy Transition: Wishful Transition: Renewable EnergyA 100 Percent Goal? Thinking or Imperative at www.cnsjournal.org/a-100- Posted 2018. January 30, and gambles required by high-energy dogma. It would by high-energyand gambles required dogma. also haveof being possible.” the advantage ‘Cox says, “at least in affluent countries, it would be better it affluent countries, least in “at says, ‘Cox simplytransformto society less far operatesit that so on That end-use energy while assuring sufficiency for all. would bring renewable energy a 100% system within closer and avoid the outrageous technological reach feats My son Peter and I provide a systematic discussion on these a systematic on discussion and I provide Peter My son • This position is further described as the need for “a regulated, regulated, “a is furtherThis position described as the need for appropriate siting of renewable says, as Linda Cree Yes, In a recent update of my 2012 discussion in GH, I critiqued in GH, update of my 2012 discussion In a recent smaller environmental/ecological footprint smaller than environmental/ecological area and land wind rooftops, on by highlyphotovoltaics efficient at present, turbine arrays of deserts in the ocean and utilizing a small area solar power. for concentrated in press. in our book more issues and much low-energy economy”. This goal is similar to what has been This goal low-energy economy”. of the Simplicity Trainer Ted namely by others, championed as well as DerrickInstitute whose views Jensen I have critiqued, (e.g., quotes Loftus (2015) saying Cox et al. of energy. consumption and highly risky “They“premature concludedbe it would that ‘betto the planet’” the achievement on of scenarios like those [e.g., a shift to a low-energy economy global would be their alternative, that a transition which would be a suicidal choice for humanity, most of the worldwould condemn of energy to a future poverty the the chanceeven and forgo of creating worse than at present clean energy capacity to bring the atmospheric carbon dioxide (Schwartzman, 400 ppm).’ (it is now 350 ppm level below down 2018). to wind/ A global transition energy issue. supplies is a real supplyingsolar power even energy more than the present unsustainable infrastructure can be achieved with a much Stan Cox’s arguments presented on his website on arguments presented Stan Cox’s Thought others mentioned Heinberg and Richard those of Linda Cree, in this selection:
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Nearly half — 46% — of the LGBTQ population identifies population Nearly — 46% — of the LGBTQ half 67% white and 33% nonwhite, people are Overall, LGBTQ generations across of respondents than two-thirds More The poll finds that gay men have more sex than lesbian men haveThe poll more finds that gay than half of LGBTQ Americans are Christian, and nearly and Americans Christian, are LGBTQ of half than identify as bisexual or queer. people half of all LGBTQ and younger, whichskews then heavily female, as bisexual, raciallytends to be more diverse. which is close census figures. to the national out made them happier. said coming women, while other findings may be more surprising: More More surprising: be more while other findings may women, ... ... ... I will attach a review, including my critique, of Yang’s book. I book. Yang’s of including my critique, I will attach a review, ... But I want to focus on the article by Linda Cree. Her veryarticle the on But I want to focus Linda Cree. by better than a new book on the need for a universal basic income the need for a universalbetter than a new basic income on book Yang. just published by Andrew be, but it must with the need for a universal basic income, agree crafted” issue of to deal with the “carefully said, as Linda Cree climate stuff. change and not just help people buy more it in your letters. The books, books, The letters. your it in Inc. Democracy information. TO THE EDITOR: articlesthe read was to writing I am pleased I how say to the in issue of current issue concluded two with insightful reviews of two important books. about the might best think Greens timely of how discussion importance of renewable energy in a time of climate change The fact that seriously. allraises take more an issue that we must being lost as jobs are work, home she links the likelihood of more guaranteedfor a need to the globalizationto automation, and thinker she As a bioregional insight. is a prescient basic income much understands and affirms the need for local self-reliance LETTERS green horizon magazine horizon green Washington, D.C Washington, David Schwartzman serves an essential role Green Horizon The Earth is Not for Sale: A Path out of Fossil out of Fossil A Path for Sale: The Earth is Not
Schwartzman, Peter and Schwartzman, David (2018, David (2018, and Schwartzman, Peter Schwartzman, WordScientific, Singapore. WordScientific, in press) in press) Possible. that is still World to the Other Capitalism percent-renewable-energy-transition-wishful-thinking-or- imperative-goal/. by David Schwartzman, Oct. 24, 2017, Posted at: https:// at: Posted 2017, 24, Oct. Schwartzman, by David medium.com/insurge-intelligence/100-renewables-wishful- thinking-or-an-imperative-goal-9879a8947d1b. 100% Renewables: ‘Wishful Thinking’ or an Imperative Goal?, Goal?, or an Imperative Thinking’ ‘Wishful 100% Renewables:
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