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The Power of the Powerless
Whatever one thinks of PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech, it served to resurface Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless just when we most need reminding of the power of collective action whenever people decide that better is not just necessary but possible. Havel wrote about how ideologies can hold us not because we believe the lies but because holding to the lies becomes ritualistic, easier than…
A Practical Guide for Building a More Resilient Canada
For anyone looking for some concrete ideas of how to build a less dependent, more just and sustainable Canada I am linking to the work of the Elbows Up Forum. Yes there is an alternative to the tax cutting, privatizing, austerity agenda that continues to shape public policy and discourse. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/elbows-up-a-practical-program-for-canadian-sovereignty/
So this is happening
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Elbows Up Webinar
About 1000 people joined the Webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit. If you weren’t one of the 1000 here’s a recording of the hour long discussion. Have a look and a listen. And please share it with others. Spread the word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVyUvn8lk0
There is an Alternative: A Better Path to a Better Future
We won’t build a less dependent, more just, sustainable, and resilient Canada following the same path that got us here. We need a new map. Here is a compendium of articles flowing out of the Elbows Up Economic Forum -which was not just about economic policy, recognizing that we must stop treating the economy as something separate from the social and political relationships in which it is…
ELBOWS UP
Just want to alert you to a webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit – an alternative to the corporate view of how to build a more resilient Canada – held in Ottawa last month which we (Pledge for Canada) were proud to co-sponsor and participate in. Here’s a link to the backgrounder prepared by the incomparable Jim…
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AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE (PART 3)
Part 3: Looking for optimism in troubled times So, where are we and where are we headed? Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, writing in prison in the 1930s when liberal democracy was under siege and fascism on the rise (sound familiar?), described these in between times as an interregnum, the old world dying, the new world not yet born. A time, he says, of morbid symptoms, a time of…
Am I optimistic and, if so, how is that even possible (Part 2)
Part 2: The decline of the collective Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that across the global west we’ve organized ourselves such that our collective action problems — what we can only solve together — have hit the level of “polycrisis,” while our collective toolkit – public power – has rarely been weaker. Nowhere is that more evident than in how we have come to view taxes. Taxes are how we…
AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? (PART 1)
I just had a piece published by Alberta Views here on hope and optimism and their opposites. As happens with magazine pieces, much changed between writing and publication: the frightening speed at which US democracy is being dismantled; the constantly shifting trade wars; the new divide in America and the world between appeasers and resisters; the elusiveness of peace or even ceasefires to stop…
Let's not do that again
Let’s not do this again. Let’s not have another election in which many Canadians, I have no doubt, voted not for the party that best captured their aspirations for Canada but against the party they most feared or with which they were most angry. In a time of high stakes when unity is crucial we have stuck by an electoral system that favours conflict over cooperation and exaggerates and amplifies…
Denialism
I have been thinking lately about the great seductive appeal of denialism, of pretending bad news away in this era of polycrisis. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by our multiple layered crises. The phrase “existential crisis” is used so frequently now its losing its impact – though certainly not its relevance. There are of course limits to the bandwidth we have for thinking about the big crises when…
A More Resilient Canada
We are in the midst of an election that looks nothing like what the pundits were predicting just a few months ago. Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, riding in on society’s discontents, took out their toolkit of bullying and bribery and applied it not only to Americans but to other countries, former allies and, most particularly, Canada. The on again, off again, mostly on again tariffs,…
This Flag Day is Different
This flag day is different. The threats of economic coercion from Trump and his gang of oligarchs are meant to intimidate and divide Canadians and subjugate Canada to the will of the US regime. Instead they have ignited a surge of patriotism rarely seen in Canada. Inevitably some voices argue for appeasement or at least negotiation but as Churchill once said, “You cannot reason with a tiger…
Pledge for Canada
Previous generations fought to protect our democracy and sacrificed to build the Canada we inherited. This is our time. In the face of threats of economic coercion from our neighbour and major trading partner, it’s time to stand up for Canada. We will meet the threats as previous generations have done through solidarity among Canadians and our leaders and a commitment to look out for one…
Neoliberalism and democracy: In conversation with Clement Nocos
Clement Nocos of the Broadbent Institute and I had a wide-ranging discussion about Canada’s version of neoliberalism, its zombie-like persistence, the Trump phenomenon, and the need for policies to provide security in troubled times and for a more robust and reconstituted democracy – political and economic. Here it is. https://perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberalism-undead-with-alex-himelfarb/
Talking about neoliberalism in our age of crisis with Clement Nocos of the Broadbent Institute
the podcast https://perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberalism-undead-with-alex-himelfarb/
The Low Road a poem by Marge Piercy What can they do to you? Whatever they want… They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, blur you with dr…