Food Delivery Apps Are Trying to Kill a Worker Uprising
More Perfect Union • Delivery workers in NYC made history when they won a $24/hour minimum wage. It was supposed to go into effect in January, until it didn’t. DoorDash and Grubhub ran a shady, backroom campaign to delay and water down the law. But Los Deliveristas are fighting back.
The TRUTH about Black Republicans | F.D Signifier
Treat this as F.D Signifier’s lead into a more in-depth essay The REAL faces of Black Conservatism on Nebula, examining the true nature of Black American conservatism, and seeks to understand how and why it exists and differs from white conservatism. F.D Signifier @ Patreon
How Neoliberalism Tricked The Working Class | The Majority Report
Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams, authors of “Hegemony Now” talk about how neoliberalism increases private luxuries for the few while decreasing democratic power for everyone, but specifically Black, other Peoples of Color, Women, Children, and those who are LGBTQ+.
Pocket Hoods behaving like Villages, boost wellbeing | Kirsten Dirksen
How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village | Communitecture
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Portland, Oregon to speak with architect Mark Lakeman, founder of Communitecture Architecture and the City Repair Project. Mark initiated a movement in Portland to transform the homogenous neighborhoods of the city into places that have many of the qualities and characteristics that are found in some of the most treasured villages on Earth. Mark reveals the things you need to know to transform your own neighborhood into a village.
Mark Lakeman @ Communitecture Architecture
https://communitecture.net
The City Repair Project
https://cityrepair.org
Special thanks to Maitreya Ecovillage, Eugene, Oregon for letting us film their sweet spot.
http://maitreya-ecovillage.org
Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse | Our Changing Climate
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements. Specifically, I look at various short stories, films, and books that introduce us to worlds beyond capitalism, that have, in their own way, addressed our ecological and climate crisis.
The Theory of Constructed Emotion with Lisa Feldman Barrett
A brief summary clip from the Evolving Leader Podcast, featuring co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender, interviewing neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett about the Theory of Constructed Emotion. Dr Feldman Barrett is Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, and Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain and Behaviour at Harvard and her work is profoundly changing our understanding of the brain, and in particular, our emotions.
Since the ancient philosophers, and into our last century of scientific endeavour, emotions have been seen as hard-wired responses to external stimuli, located in specific regions of the brain. Lisa’s evidentiary science has over-turned this age-old model which shapes everything from our current beliefs about emotional intelligence to facial recognition software widely being deployed around the world.
How To Build A Solarpunk City | Andrewism
I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a SolarPunk city.
Society of Spectacle by Guy Debord | Plastic Pills
You’ve come to the wrong place. This episode is about Guy Debord’s 1967 book, “The Society of the Spectacle“. The Spectacle might feel like everything—but it isn’t.