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After the Storms: Defeating Trumpism, Rebuilding America
White supremacists in the streets. Climate catastrophe unfolding on our coastlines. America is broken—how are we going to rebuild it?
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Episode 4: Darrick Hamilton on the racial wealth gap & the job guarantee
On the Next System Podcast, Darrick Hamilton discusses his work as a “stratification economist” on the racial wealth gap in the US and why we need a federal job guarantee.
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Ep. 1: Gar Alperovitz & Gus Speth on the Next System
NSP Co-Chairs discuss the current political context and the pathways toward transformation.
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Evo’s Bolivia: the Limits of Change
Landlocked Bolivia, South America’s economically poorest and most indigenous country, is a land of extremes, that often provides a striking reflection of regional political and social trends. The last eleven years of Evo Morales’ government is no exception.
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Reversing Inequality: Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy
The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. What are the systemic interventions needed to deconcentrate wealth and move towards a more equal America?
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Prehistory
Why is the idea of prehistory important for thinking about systemic change? Are we in the prehistory of genuine systemic change, the prehistory of a Pluralist Commonwealth?
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Everyday Movement Against Capitalism
Alexander Riccio’s second place graduate entry in our Next System Project Essay Competition explores how “strategy and prefiguration complement each other as means to liberation.”
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Frances Fox Piven: From Protest to Resistance
This conversation with renowned activist and professor Frances Fox Piven covers a variety of topics, including her theory on social movements and disruptive tactics, the growing movement for women’s rights, electoral politics, and the importance of resistance at the current moment.
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Towards An Integrated Progressive Agenda
We need an integrated progressive agenda that focuses on replacing the foundations on which domination systems have kept rebuilding themselves in different forms.
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