Comments on: MICHELLE MASCARENHAS-SWAN: A Window to a New World

By: claire tran

claire tran — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:40:29 +0000

i need a “love it!” button to click for this.

By: laborgirl

laborgirl — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:28:18 +0000

Thanks for the article.

Your article is nice and thanks for your work promoting an alternative world that could be..

But the fact that you went through the entire section on strategy or perhaps the entire article without any mention of organized labor and its role…..is quite worrying.

Rebalancing the power between workers and corporations, labor and capital is the most important solution to the current crisis. Until working people in America are empowered and educated to influence political decision-makings, our gov’t will continue to succumb to corporate interests.

Want to change the world? Be a union organizer!

By: Dave Room

Dave Room — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:55:30 +0000

Thanks for your work Michelle (and Movement Generation). You do an amazing job of framing where we are and how to move towards a new world that works for everyone. Is this the new story?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:44:17 +0000

Right on Michelle!

A key component of localization with justice will be to avoid simplistic “autarky”–isolated communities that still compete over scarce resources (e.g. those who happen to live near the river becoming “owners” of the river) and ignore externalities (e.g. those who live in an inland valley being subjected to the air pollution generated by those who live on the coast).

Thus, a localization that is federated and equitable, that recognizes multilayered interdependencies, is key.

By: Joshua Kahn Russell

Joshua Kahn Russell — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:38:07 +0000

thank you for this Michelle. this is excellent.