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During the pandemic, Naomi Klein has been spending a lot of time exploring the woods in British Columbia, Canada (her “happy place”) with her son, Toma. “In the early years, it’s all about connecting with the natural world,” she tells Vogue via Zoom. “Young people are going to have to fight for a better world — thats just reality. And so the more that young people are able to fight from a place of love, and not just fear, the better.”  “There is a huge appetite for systemic ...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps comes straight out of the New Deal February 9, 2021 9:08 AM CDT By Kate Yoder Biden got his idea for a Civilian Climate Corps from Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal. | National Archives and Records Administration. The article below is reprinted...

Henrik Evertsson, 33, used a drone camera to film the wreckage of the doomed ferry MS Estonia for a Discovery+ documentary entitled Estonia: the Find that Changes Everything.

Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets (CAHOOTS) is a mobile crisis intervention team integrated into the public safety system of the Oregon cities of Eugene and Springfield. (CAHOOTS) In the past year, as cities have searched for alternatives to police while handling crisis calls, many have arrived in an unlikely place: Eugene, Oregon. In this episode of This Changes Everything’s focus on efforts to defunding the police, host Sara Bernard heads to Eugene for a virtual ride along with C...

Resilience doctrine February 2, 2021 Disasters are often used to centralize political and economic control, and thereby deepen human inequalities, as Naomi Klein described in her classic 2007 study The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She documented how after the “shock” of natural or human-made disasters, corporate interests move in to privatize the economy, institute the “shock” of austerity, and repress and “shock” (torture) citizens who resist. These neoliberal...

The Ecological Revolution, translated by Mohsen Saffari and forthcoming this year from Cheshmeh Publication in Iran. The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet was first published a little more than ten years ago in April 2009, at a time when climate change had already been recognized as a pressing global issue for over two decades, but when there was still hardly any realistic discussion of its connection to capitalism or of the immense ecological and social revolution that would ...

In the second season of This Changes Everything, Crosscut takes a deep dive into policing policy, alternatives to policing and the lives at the center of the criminal justice debate. (Clockwise from top left: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) After George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis last May, anti-racism protests exploded across the nation and presented Seattle city leaders with an existential question they ...

Community members hold a press conference addressing an upcoming Seattle City Council vote on an agreement between the Seattle Police Officers Guild and the city of Seattle at City Hall, Nov. 13, 2018. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) As anti-racism protesters filled city streets this past summer with calls for a radical rethinking of public safety, a majority of Seattle City Council members responded by committing to cut the citys police budget by 50%. But making good on that promise has been diffi...

Torin Bracey chants during a ‘Count Every Vote, Protect Every Person’ rally in Pioneer Square, Nov. 4, 2020. Hundreds of people peacefully marched through Pioneer Square with limited police presence — a noticeable difference from the night before, which ended in multiple arrests of protesters. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) In the midst of the anti-racism protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last spring, a new cry went out: "Defund the police!" And in the...

Proponents of the nations Defund Police movement have argued that some police funding could be redirected to fund community programs, which would help improve policing, lower police interactions for at-risk populations and lead to better job satisfaction for police and results for taxpayers. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) Many activists leading the call to defund the police say the answer to disproportionate policing is to take money from the cops and give it to communities. But change is never as...