The Aviation Justice Tour

| Abby McFlynn and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh | “Clearly somebody doesn’t want to hear the story about the Heathrow Campaign,” said John Stewart, someone who has been described as the most effective activist in the UK, as he retold his seven-hour detainment and interrogation by FBI, secret...

Competitive Cooperative

| Katherine Selby | Now in its 40th year, the Essential food cooperative presents itself as a viable alternative to the unjust food system, and its worker-owner management model is a inspiring example to anyone who wants to change their relationship to food and the people who produce it. The...

Grassroots Football: Values, Examples, P...

| Gabriel Kuhn | Modern football is often criticized for bringing the history of football as the “people’s game” to an end. Authors like Matthew Bazell (Theatre of Silence, 2008) speak of the game’s “lost soul.” With respect to professional soccer and its ever increasing...

Occupy Blog: Spain

| Marianne Maeckelbergh |   La Nostra Elecció: L’ Acció Barcelona, Spain, November 2011 The streets of Barcelona appear deceptively calm at first sight. Fashionable people stroll the streets, shopping bags in hand, while others stop to drink a glass of wine at a sidewalk cafe....

Wu Ming 1 – Interview

As I’m with the Bears, a collection of short stories from a damaged planet, is published, I interviewed Wu Ming 1 about his contribution, climate activism, the occupy movement and the mystery why writers on the left still do not publish under copyleft or creative commons. Stir: In Bill...