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Episode 20: Towards the Inclusive Workers’ Movement of the Future (W/ Dorian Warren)

by Adam Simpson, Dorian Warren

Dorian Warren joins the Next System Podcast to discuss the future of the labor movement, organizing for racial equity and an inclusive economy, and more. read more
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Episode 17: Social Transformation Through ‘The Commons’ (w/ David Bollier)

by David Bollier, Adam Simpson

How the commons give us a frame to think against enclosures and towards a next system. read more
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Episode 16: “Resist & Build”: Discussing the Solidarity Economy (w/ Emily Kawano)

by Emily Kawano, Adam Simpson

Emily Kawano discusses the solidarity economy as the end and means of system change. read more
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a wall is half covered in graffiti, in the top half, which is mostly unadorned, the word 'DECOLONIZE' is painted in large black and white letters

Episode 15: How Communities Can Take Control of Their Police (w/ Max Rameau)

by Max Rameau, Adam Simpson

Why “community policing” isn’t going to end police violence, and what real community control of policing could look like. read more
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The Pluralist Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

In this video, Next System Project Co-chair Gar Alperovitz sketches the major institutions of a systemic alternative based in plural forms of democratic ownership, orientated around community at various scales—what he calls “The Pluralist Commonwealth.” read more
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How does “the commons” work? Animating David Bollier’s next system

by David Bollier

This video animates David Bollier’s commons-based framework, which he argues could provide a critical template for de-commodification, mutualization, and the organization and control of resources outside of the market. read more
Community & Place Democratic Ownership
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Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community

A farm in upstate New York is dedicated to addressing the painful history of farmwork to Black people in the US, while also growing fresh vegetables and community surrounding it. read more
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The Next System Project at Left Forum 2015

Watch a discussion of system crisis and systemic solutions at the 2015 Left Forum. read more
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Prisons and policing: systemic challenges and alternative visions

What can advocates for a more democratic economy learn from the movements for the abolition of prisons and policing? read more
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The Joyful Economy

The Joyful Economy

by Gus Speth

Next System Project Co-chair Gus Speth explores a vision for the future in which the goal of economic life is to sustain, nourish, and restore human and natural communities, so that the material and non-material blessings of life are available to all. read more
Community & Place Environment & Energy
Cultivating Community Economies

Cultivating Community Economies

by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy, Ethan Miller

In this paper, J.K. Gibson-Graham and Community Economies Collective (CEC) members use Marx’s analysis of “class as a process” (of producing, appropriating, and distributing surplus) to unpack the diversity of economies that exist in any historical or geographic context. read more
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Earthland: Scenes from a Civilized Future

Earthland: Scenes from a Civilized Future

by Paul Raskin

This essay is written as a dispatch from the future. We visit Earthland in 2084, the flourishing planetary civilization that has emerged out of the great crises and struggles that today still lie before us. read more
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The Promise of a Million Utopias

The Promise of a Million Utopias

by Michael Shuman

Michael Shuman outlines systematic change that would transfer power from above to below, including a decentralized United States that has a sense of solidarity with the rest of humanity across the planet. read more
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