quite consistent and rather extraordinary work is being done by the Next System Project and the Democracy Collaborative, as you see in this newsletter,

please, especially click on the article on the Corbyn program, which is much more radical than expected,

Michel


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From: The Next System Project <nextsystem@democracycollaborative.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:00 PM
Subject: NEXT NEW: Three Ideas To Shake Up Our Stagnant Politics
To: Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
The latest from
The Next System Project

'Radical' Plan for Economic Democracy

Joe Guinan, executive director of The Next System Project, and Martin O'Neill, senior philosophy lecturer at the University of York in England, explain the significance of the movement-driven economic vision and program of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Renewal magazine, where they are both commissioning editors. They call it "a radical program for dismantling and displacing corporate and financial power in Britain” that will have ripple effects around the world.
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Money Matters—And So Does How We Think About It
Economist Stephanie Kelton at Left Forum.
A provocative Left Forum panel moderated by Next System Project co-chair Gar Alperovitz challenges what most people think they know about money and the monetary system, and opens up new possibilities for how to take bold ideas about refashioning the economy and make them real. Our video and edited transcript of the session features economists Stephanie Kelton of Stony Brook University, Pavlina Tcherneva of Bard College and Michael Hudson of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, along with attorney and activist Raúl Carrillo of the New Economy Project.
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Reshaping the Politics of Housing
On both sides of the Atlantic, ordinary people are finding ways to push back against the forces of gentrification and displacement. During a panel entitled “The Politics of Land and Housing,” The Democracy Collaborative’s Jarrid Green and Peter Gowan were joined by Laurie Macfarlane, who is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and is co-author of "The Economics of Land and Housing" and editor of openDemocracy. Together, they explained some of the strategies being used to make housing a social good for all rather than a profit center for a few. 
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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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