Popular education is education for a genuine democracy. This statement immediately raises two big questions. The first question is: how do people really learn? They...
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One way to reduce inequality is to actually tax people who have lots of money and won’t be harmed by contributing it to the public…
For a general introduction to the theory and practice of restorative justice, check out: Restorative Justice online. I sat next to an astrophysicist on the…
I recently attended a public lecture given by Andrew Simms, the Policy Director of the new economics foundation, a UK-based think tank that develops new…
As mentioned in my previous post – back to the future of dystopia – with an emphasis on re-zoning sci-fi style. I can’t cite the…
Democracy is basically a system that lets people make decisions together
I saw Jane Wills of Queen Mary University of London speak last night on the battle for a living wage in the UK, a great…
Storyboards are a way to present the elements of a story in a sequence. They are used a lot by people who make movies and…
James Cameron has a baseball cap with the letters HMFIC on its crown. As this is a family-friendly site, I won’t spell out what those…
Five months ago, Brixton, one of the coolest areas of London, adopted its own currency, shown on the right below – the Brixton pound. (scroll…
If you sit very still and stare at downtown L.A. from the window of the Bonaventure Hotel’s cocktail lounge, this is what you will see:…
In US cities today, our public safety officials typically respond to violence by locking people up, by moving the offender far away from their families…
As of December 15, these necessary demands are not doing too well at COP 15. Check out Gopal Dayaneni’s video blog from the Right to…
In some quarters, including the Colbert Report (though I must give props to brother Colbert for mentioning this on his show ‘cause otherwise I wouldn’t…
So we’re in crisis. Things are bad. In my last post, I gave you Davies and Marcuse presenting two takes on the whys and hows…
Andrew Ross Sorkin just wrote a book called Too Big to Fail. That phrase refers to institutions and the idea that by getting bigger and…
Peter Marcuse spoke on Tuesday night at University College of London, and Howard Davies spoke in the heart of LSE on Wednesday at noon, so…
Downtown Chicago is all planes and angles, contrasts in brick and stone, glass and steel. It is full of amazing reflections in glass. You see…
As a freelance prose and comics writer, I sweat a lot about where my next paycheck is coming from. Half my day, and I’m being…
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless named Los Angeles the No. 1 “Meanest City” out of…