Dear Friends, Those of you who are regular visitors may have noticed that we haven't updated this site for a while, and new visitors might...
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference...
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This past May it was my distinct honor and pleasure to be part of the NYC Delegation to Spain, a group of 20 (mostly) New York...
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In an earlier post about how one becomes a member in a Mondragon cooperative, I discussed an example of Mondragon solidarity –– the idea of…
The U.S. has a lot of wealth without a lot of values about it. Mondragon has strong values, but wants more results (wealth). The problem…
I’m in Mondragon, Spain on a study tour with a dozen others, organized by the Praxis Peace Institute. It is day one and at least…
My confession of the week: I hate electoral politics. I hate the piles of mailers, attack ads, and clever, narrow messaging. I hate the fact…
The biggest “aha” for me after reading Edward E. Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is the…
Part I In 1987 me, Gary and his father, Dikes, moved from Gary’s boyhood home in South L.A. on Flower near Slauson to the house…
According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the same destructive speculative forces that produced the U.S. foreclosure crisis has…
According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the United States is in a new phase of…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Today I planned to share my experience with the 1970 board game, SMOG. But that’s not going to happen. For two…
Jackie Cornejo, announcing the backer rewards at the launch party for our Big Water Kickstarter campaign. Click on the photo to see how we did.
The story of water is a story of struggle. In the following videos, three exceptional women explain why and what it will take to win....
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Today’s epic scale, inter-twined problems of climate change and inequality demand that we mobilize unprecedented reservoirs of human creativity and collaboration in the spirit of…
A couple of months ago, some friends of mine organized a building session in their warehouse in London. The idea was to gather people interested…
We were sitting around the fire. We were complaining. A lot. And then we decided that there was no other enemy that stood between ourselves…
I have been blessed with a creative life, something that is not intuitively associated with urban planners. But blessed I am with creative challenges, opportunities…
One of my major works-in-progress over the past few years has been figuring how to move and transform the popular economics work that has been…