Sign on to The Next System Project statement on systemic crisis

The challenging realities of growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. We are at or near the bottom among advanced democracies across a score of key indicators of national well-being—including relative poverty, inequality, education, social mobility, health, environment, militarization, democracy, and more. We have fundamental problems because of fundamental flaws in our economic and political system. The crisis now unfolding in so many ways across our country amounts to a systemic crisis. Today’s political economic system is not programmed to secure the wellbeing of people, place and planet. Instead, its priorities are corporate profits, the growth of GDP, and the projection of national power.

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Signatories

  • Ralph Nader Consumer Advocate, Author, Former Presidential Candidate
  • Frances Fox Piven City University of New York
  • Annie Leonard Greenpeace USA
  • Oliver Stone Academy Award-winning Filmmaker
  • Timothy E. Wirth United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
  • Ai-jen Poo National Domestic Workers Alliance
  • Jill Stein 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominee
  • Gar Alperovitz The Next System Project
  • James Gustave Speth The Next System Project
  • Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
  • Gerald Hudson Service Employees International Union
  • Robert B. Reich University of California at Berkeley
  • Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
  • Barbara Ehrenreich Author
  • Jeffrey D. Sachs Columbia University
  • Gerald Torres Cornell University Law School
  • Larry Cohen Communications Workers of America
  • Julie Matthaei Cornerstone Cohousing
  • Leo Gerard United Steelworkers
  • John James Conyers, Jr. Thirteenth District, Michigan
  • Bill McKibben 350.org
  • Saskia Sassen Columbia University
  • Manuel Pastor University of Southern California
  • J. Phillip Thompson Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Medea Benjamin CODEPINK
  • Sarita Gupta Jobs With Justice
  • Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz California State University
  • Daniel Ellsberg Author, Whistleblower
  • Herman E. Daly University of Maryland
  • Heather McGhee Demos
  • Anna Galland MoveOn.org Civic Action
  • Danny Glover Actor, Social Activist
  • Nancy Fraser New School for Social Research
  • Van Jones The Dream Corps & Rebuild The Dream
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