By Cynthia Kaufman Originally posted on Common Dreams April 28th, 2020 Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs’s new film is so…
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Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19
By Cynthia Kaufman Originally posted on Common Dreams April 15th, 2020 As we prepare to bring our economies back from…
An End of Power?
By Cynthia Kaufman We are entering a period where the social structures and mechanisms that have channeled and controlled power…
Climate Action: Disrupting Business as Usual
By Cynthia Kaufman Talk given to the California Student Sustainability Coalition’s annual convergence De Anza College Saturday May 21, 2016…
Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism’s Death Grip on Daily Life
By Cynthia Kaufman In order to deal with the climate crisis and have more satisfying lives, we need to build…
Breaking Our Dependency on the Old Economy as We Build the New
By Cynthia Kaufman People all around the world are working to build solidarity economies, based on worker-owned collectives, the creation…
Making Rights Work
Making Rights Work: A Review of “The Human Rights Enterprise” By Cynthia Kaufman A few years ago, when California was…
Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits
By Cynthia Kaufman My friend Annette Aylward is trying to make a living as a crafts person. She makes beautiful…
The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation
By Cynthia Kaufman Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities.…
Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners
By Cynthia Kaufman When I was in working on my PhD in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,…