... of millions of smaller local and national enterprises. The creation of a global monoculture in the image of the West has proven disastrous on many counts, none more important than the violence it does to cultures that must be pulled apart to accommodate the process. When that violence spins out of control...

... treaties that open their economies to outside investment, and scrapping laws and regulations designed to protect national and local businesses, jobs, and resources. In the process, national sovereignty has been relinquished to giant transnational corporations and undemocratic supranational bodies like...

... an alternative structure to the global corporate economy. The principles behind these laws can be applied broadly to any area where corporate rights override local self-government or the well-being of the local ecology. The best place to start, I would suggest, is with banning corporations from making campaign...

... into deficit hysteria, thereby all but guaranteeing that the next several years will continue to be marked by high unemployment, austerity, and painful cuts at the local, state, and federal levels. Disturbingly, this climate is likely to foster widespread disillusionment with the capacity of progressive...

... the advances being made by local struggles. Not having learned about any shared strategy among the different struggles—and worrying that their activism keeps them away from their children and families and depletes their own economic well-being—they begin to feel their time and energy would be better spent...

... where it badly needs to go. In the meantime, some of us could not wait for a major shift in national consciousness, and instead have built an independent movement right in our local communities. That is what happened in Richmond, California. We formed the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) in 2003...

...), readily available, fresh, locally grown food is at the crux of the mission we must accomplish for the future of our nation’s health. Crowds of inaugural revelers lingered on the national mall as the U.S. Senate confirmed former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

..., with an encouraging caregiver would have required the U.S. Congress miraculous advent of economic who engages the children in talking, to provide proceeds of a bond created democracy (as described by John from eight months to school entrance, by any municipality to employ local un­ Sanbonmatsu...