We Can't Leave Everything To The Free

The Net Is More Than An Organizing Tool - It Has Become An Organizing Model, A Blueprint For Decentralized But Cooperative Decision-making. It Facilitates The Process Of Information Sharing To Such An Extent That Many Groups Can Work In Concert With One Another Without The Need To Achieve Monolithic Consensus.

Politics Hates A Vacuum. If It Isn't Filled With Hope, Someone Will Fill It With Fear.

And Most Of All, It Means Continually Drawing Connections Among These Seemingly Disparate Struggles—asserting, For Instance, That The Logic That Would Cut Pensions, Food Stamps, And Health Care Before Increasing Taxes On The Rich Is The Same Logic That Would Blast The Bedrock Of The Earth To Get The Last Vapors Of Gas And The Last Drops Of Oil Before Making The Shift To Renewable Energy.

There's A Property In Panama Where Trump Has Collected Somewhere Around $30 Million Just From Selling His Name To This Property - It's Somewhere Between $30 Million And $50 Million. It Would Be So Easy For A Developer To Slap On An Extra $6 Million To A Trump Licensing Deal And Have That Be A Backdoor Bribe. Who Are We To Say What That Is Worth? It's So Ephemeral. And This Is The Appeal Of Selling Something As Ephemeral As A Brand Name, Is That It Can Be Inflated Beyond All Reason.

So The Need For Another Economic Model Is Urgent, And If The Climate Justice Movement Can Show That Responding To Climate Change Is The Best Chance For A More Just Economic System.