Toward a World that Works for Everyone
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Folks, this groundswell for UBI is our best chance to bring it in – and not just in one country, but worldwide. Spanish Government Aims to Roll Out Basic Income ‘Soon’ By Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg, April 5, 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-05/spanish-government-aims-to-roll-out-basic-income-soon […]
This is a long but stimulating article. It’s a reflection on what we can achieve when humanity is united. The Coronation Charles Eisenstein, March 20, 2020 https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=3 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap […]
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
U.K. government will pay 80% of workers’ wages to keep them employed during the coronavirus shutdown Can the U.S. come up with anything nearly as generous? Talib Visram, Fast Company, March 20, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90480396/the-u-k-government-will-pay-80-workers-wages-to-keep-them-employed-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown It’s a remarkable and peculiar day in Britain when it’s announced that all pubs are closing, but that ends up not […]
March 18, 2020, spiritlibrary.com https://tinyurl.com/r663xvl Dear Ones, This is the time we have been waiting for; the time of the great external change is happening. We have been preparing for this for many, many years, and so it has come to pass. Now is the time to use all of the tools and teachings that […]
The fear of dying or of causing the death of another – and this fear facing us and every human being around us – has galvanized the world. It has gotten the world’s attention in a way that previous chaos did not. Not the whole world’s attention. Coronavirus is happening everywhere. Everyone is facing the […]
OK, OK, a little chest thumping going on here…. But this does show (1) that it can be done and (2) how quickly it can be done in this age of social media. I hope the practice of caremongering grows. Compassion by any name is what society needs right now. Coronavirus: Kind Canadians start ‘caremongering’ […]
I was looking for a specific quote from SaLuSa when I came across this article from 2012. I’d like to repost it because I consider it particularly relevant to these times in which we’re re-defining our relationship to each other in a rapidly-transforming world. Watch some people accuse me of being a socialist. If they […]
