Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health. The social safety net that Republicans and neoliberal Democrats love to hate is what undergirds successful health systems, and rebuilding it will be […]
CANCELLED — COVID-19 – The Way that Women Deal with Global Issues
This Event has been Cancelled. The Army Officer’s Mess in Ottawa has closed due to Covid-19 global pandemic. CACOR cordially invites you to the First 2020 CACOR Presentation and Workshop Date: Wednesday March 25th 2020 Title: The Way that Women Deal with Global Issues Presenter: Huguette Labelle Time: 12.-2:00pm Place: Army Officers’ Mess, 149 […]
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
A MUST READ article with links to an interactive epidemic calculator and many simple graphics for understanding best actions to meet challenges of an epidemic. What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be […]
Debtors of the World, Unite!
Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. Millions of debtors, isolated, are owned by the banks. But if you’re part of a collective that owes $14.15 trillion, you all own the banks. The point of debtors’ unions is not merely debt cancellation or even robust public goods handed to us by state power. It is […]
Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible
This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts just after 11 minutes in.) I usually speak off the cuff, but this time I wrote it out, originally in outline form*, which is germane […]