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From: The Next System Project <nextsystem@democracycollaborative.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:00 PM
Subject: Rebuild the economy with a green stimulus
To: <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
The latest from The Next System Project

Now is the time for a green stimulus 
The historic emergency economic package that Congress and the White House has put together this week will help address urgent crises created by the COVID-19 epidemic, but it is only a first step. Healing the economy long term means not restoring the structural conditions that caused the economy to fall ill long before the novel coronavirus swept the globe. This week The Next System Project's climate and energy program co-director Johanna Bozuwa joined a group of experts and activists in authoring an open letter to Congress calling for "a green stimulus to rebuild the economy." It calls on the Congress to enact a long-term plan that does not "restore—or even deepen—our reliance on fossil fuels" but instead "protects us from the impact of climate change and lifts up workers and frontline communities."
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SPECIAL ONLINE EVENT THURSDAY

Seizing the moment for nationalization


When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—hardly a champion of the radical left—this week demanded that the Trump administration nationalize the supply chains for essential medical supplies in order to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic, he showed how far the topic of nationalization has moved from the fringes of political debate to the mainstream. This Thursday, join us for a one-hour webinar roundtable featuring journalists Kate Aronoff and Alexander Sammon, professor and author Robert Hockett, and Next System Project research director Thomas Hanna. Together we will explore the surprising history of nationalization in the US, the demands currently on the table, and what we need to know in order to make sure nationalization is used to make a more democratic economy.
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News media for people and planet
The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) at Stanford University invited Next System Project fellow Laura Flanders, the host of "The Laura Flanders Show," and editorial manager Isaiah J. Poole to participate in a written MAHB Dialogue on the state of the news media and the need for system change to produce journalism that advances global understanding of our shared economic and social challenges. As they write, "In recent times, our media have spectacularly failed as our early warning system; failing to warn us of financial collapse, the rise of white militants, misogynist predators, ecological disaster, and the likely blowback effects of our wars abroad. ... If ever there was a time to build broad support for redefining journalism as a public good, this is that moment."
Read the dialogue...
Learn more about the basics of system change and catch up with past episodes of The Next System Podcast on our website, thenextsystem.org.
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