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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Mark Wachowiak Orlando Food Not Bombs
Celia Waddell New Culture Northwest
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Sandra Waddock Boston College
Bruce Wade
David Wade
Anita Wade
Hendrik Wagenaar University of Sheffield
raymond Wager
Elizabeth Wagner
James wagner
Judy Wagner
John Wagner (retired)
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Spencer Wagner
mark Wagner Worcester State University
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Jenny Wagner
Laurie Wagner
Carl Wagner BeatCancer.Org
Kathy Wagner N/A
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John Waide
Jean Waight
Jean Waight First Congregational Church of Bellingham/UCC member
Laurie Wainberg
Karen Wainberg
Harry Waisbren act.tv
Susan Waite
Douglas Waite
Jon Wakeman
Eliza Walbridge
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Shimon Waldfogel Citizens4health
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Rick Walker
Sydney Walker Sonoma Mountain Healing Arts
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Robert Walker Self
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Sarah Walker UW Madison 350
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Anrey Wang
Micaela Ward
David Ward
David Ward Seattle Environmental Activists
Susann Ward
Connell Ward
Stacy Ware
Nathan Ware Cogswell College
Polly Waring
Teri Warner
brandy warner foodisfreeproject
Holly Warner
Jonathan Warnow 350.org
Susan Warren
dave warren 350.org
James Warren James\' Blue House Free School
Stephen Warren
Simeon Warren American College of the Building Arts
Arild Warud
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Shannon Warwick
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Kelly Wassell
Paul Wasserman Lehman College Adult Learning Center
anthony waterhouse (UK)
Jim Waters Sanctus Catholic Seminary
Marv Waterstone University of Arizona
Kristy Watkins
Harry Watkins Point Loma Nazarene University & the One Earth Project
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Kirk Watrous
Elliott Watson UFCW member
Linda Watson Wellness Without Walls
Robert Watson
Clare Watson Zagollc
Robert Watson PrimaFilm
Greg Watson Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Jeffrey Watson
Richard Watson
John Watson MoneyOutVotersIn.org
Fred Watstein
Mary Watt
Frederick Watters
Abbie Watters
Sheldon Watts published medical historian
MaryB Watts Checking
James Watts
Chuck Watts Empathy Surplus Project
Shirley Way Alternatives to Violence Project
Wuji Wayfarer
Jessica Weaver Public Conversations Project
Nancy Weaver
Helen Weaver Wellness Weavers
Charlie Weaver
david webb
Tom Webb Oakland Catholic Worker
J Tom Webb Adjunct Professor, Co-operative Management Education
Kelly Webb Ms.
Tom Webb Co-operative Management Education, Saint Mary\'s University
Rita Webb
Randall Webb
Evan Webb Stuart
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jan weber TPS
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Lynne Weborg
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Robert Webster
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Robert Wechsler
Adam Wedeking
Noreen Wedman
Doug Weeder Retired Educator
Winston Weeks Citizens Education Project
Neal Weeks self
Susan Weems
Steven Weems Polaris Associates
Al Wegener
Julie Wegener
Stephen Wehrenberg US Coast Guard
Bob Weick Actor, Activist
David Weickert Mr.
Tim Weidman Existence Tapestry
Bill Weihl
Laura Weiland
Wendy WEiner
herbert weiner
Jack Weinhold
Sam Weinschenk
Matthew Weinstein
Rita Weinstein
M Weintraub
Edmund Weisberg
Ken Weisbro n/a
Mark Weisbrot Center for Economic and Policy Research
Irene Weiser
Harvey Weisfeld
John Weishampel University of Central Florida
Tina Weishaus
Alex Weiss
Jon Weiss Lake Climate Group LLC
Dale Weiss
Ellen Weissbuch