The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

One way to define the global justice movement of our time is as a global movement in defense of the local—of local food, local jurisdiction over labor and resources, local production, local culture, local species, domesticated and wild, of the protection of environments that are by definition local.

global restlessness, a pervasive shift of imagination and desire—that

An extraordinary imaginative power to reinvent ourselves is at large in the world, though it is hard to say how it will counteract the dead weight of neoliberalism, fundamentalisms, environmental destructions, and well-marketed mindlessness.

It’s hard to see radical change in the United States, and easy to see how necessary it is. I spend a lot of time looking at my country in horror.