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Along with direct action and other forms of resistance, a transformational movement must also have a constructive program that builds new institutions based on the values that the movement aspires to achieve. These may eventually replace the old systems. From small, worker-owned cooperatives to national advocacy groups, hundreds of thousands of people around the country are working to create democratic and sustainable systems that meet the basic needs of all people.

Degrowth And Its Future

March 2, 2026 David Bollier. Create! climate crisis, Degrowth, Sustainability, The Commons

Humanity cannot continue to expand production and consumption exponentially on a finite planet. It’s biophysically impossible. The carbon emissions are already producing more volatile weather patterns, more frequent floods, droughts, and wildfires, and disruptions of agriculture, commerce and global supply chains. And yet the US Government and respectable opinion remain in zones of denial or deflection. The Trump administration is savaging climate science, environmental regulation, and international treaties, while saner responsible adults are at least focused on energy efficiency and renewables.

Small-Scale Supply Chains In Action

March 1, 2026 Zoe Gilbertson, Resilience. Create!, Podcast – WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean Cooperatives, Local Economy, Supply Chain, Sustainability

Re-thinking governance requires changing how we organise, share knowledge, and develop structures emphasising value beyond the monetary. Systems that encourage cooperation require more social input but have many long-term and wide-reaching benefits. Cooperatives provide an enterprise container that can embody agroecological values such as social and ecological care. Due to the complexities of organising complex fashion supply chains, textile cooperatives are a rare form of business around the globe. However, we can find some inspiring examples in France and Spain.

Top Ten Local Policies For 2026

February 27, 2026 Michael Shuman, The Main Street Journal. Create! Green Transition, Local Economy, Local Investment, Sustainability

Last month, I circulated a list of the top ten policies that state governments could enact to support local business and local economies. Some of you wanted me to repeat this exercise for local governments, where the ability to enact law is more limited, but there’s also the possibility of moving faster. Most of my suggestions below really suggest how your community ought to carry out economic development (ED), which sometimes is done by your municipality and sometimes by an independent agency. The starting place for most of our readers is to compare this list with what purports to be economic development in your community right now. Note the gaps—I doubt you’ll find more than one or two of my items being taken seriously—and push for change.

‘Worthy Children Of Heroes, Martyrs:’ How Nicaragua Cultivates Peace

February 26, 2026 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. Create! Education, Nicaragua, Peace, Sandinista Revolution, Violence, Youth

“I thought they were going to kill us. The bullets were flying past our house, and I was so afraid a stray one would hit us,” Socorro tells me. She’s recounting a gang fight that took place more than a decade ago right outside the walls of mismatched metal sheeting that surround her garden near Managua. “My granddaughter was small at the time, I ran with her and hid behind a barrel, thinking it was full and that the water would help protect us. But the joke was on me, the barrel was empty!” Socorro cackles, today able to laugh at the narrow escape.

Defying Sanctions, Advancing Socialism: DPRK’s Ninth Party Congress

February 25, 2026 Ju-Hyun Park, People's Dispatch. Create! Development, Five Year Plans, North Korea, Socialism

The 9th Party Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea is now underway. Held every five years, the Congress can be regarded as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) most significant political event. A total of 5,000 delegates and 2,000 observers elected by party organizations from across the country are now gathered in Pyongyang for the event. As preparations for the Congress took place across the country in recent weeks, they were accompanied by celebrations of the successes of the last Five Year Plan, adopted at the 8th Party Congress in 2021. In the past month, completion ceremonies have been held for 21 local projects across the DPRK’s rural communities, ranging from the massive Sinuiju Greenhouse Farm to new factories and hospitals.

Regime Change At The Federal Reserve

February 25, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Federal Reserve, Public Banks, States, Trump Administration

On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair, markets sold off and gold and silver plunged. Investors were positioned for a “dove,” someone inclined to cut rates aggressively and keep money loose; and Warsh has a long-standing reputation as a “hawk.” So wrote Michael Nicoletos in an article titled “Everyone Is Focusing on the Wrong Thing.” But Nicoletos and some other commentators are seeing something else on the horizon – a rebalancing of the banking system through an overhaul of the Federal Reserve itself.

A Worker-Led Alternative To Billionaire-Owned News In DC

February 25, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Create! Independent media, Media, Washington DC, Worker Ownership

The Washington Post’s decision — at the behest of billionaire Jeff Bezos — to fire, according to some estimates, over 40 percent of the newsroom is devastating for journalism and the DC area. Despite its storied history and name recognition, the Post had been struggling when the billionaire Amazon founder purchased the outlet for $250 million in 2013. It might be laughable in hindsight, but it’s not surprising that pundits and even workers in the newsroom viewed Bezos as a “savior” at the time. And for some years the situation worked well — during the first Trump administration, the Post recorded record revenues.

China’s Green Development Is Both Anti-Imperialist And Socialist

February 24, 2026 A. Shantha, Orinoco Tribune. Create! China, climate crisis, Green Transition, Socialism, Sovereignty

Since the turn of the century, China has been undergoing its own green industrial revolution. In 2023, China was responsible for the production of over 80% of the world’s solar panels and 60% of the world’s electric vehicles.1 China’s domestic New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) — referring to battery/pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel-cell electric vehicles (of which pure electric vehicles are now the most common) — make up more than 90% of sales, compared to the 50% market share held by gas-powered Chinese-branded vehicles.

Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty On Whales’ Rights Could Change Laws

February 23, 2026 Katie Surma, Scheer Post. Create! Animal Rights, Indigenous Activism, New Zealand, Rights of Nature, whales

In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to sign a landmark declaration recognizing whales’ rights. Now that effort could shape national law: New Zealand legislators this month introduced a bill grounded in the declaration, affirming whales’ rights to migrate, maintain natural behaviors and culture, and live in a healthy environment with damaged habitats restored. The bill, introduced by a member of Parliament from the Green Party, Teanau Tuiono, would recognize whales as legal persons, a status already held by corporations and other nonhuman entities.

Spanish City Resurrects 3,000-Year-Old Solution To Fight Extreme Heat

February 23, 2026 Peter Yeung, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Cooling, Global heating, History, Spain, Water

A few meters below the former site of Seville’s 1992 World Expo, a promising climate experiment blending ancient technology and modern science is underway. Rows of black pipes run along the ceiling and down the bare concrete walls. These, in turn, connect to bright blue and green tubes and enormous silver pumps. In a control room to the side, an array of monitors display the heat, humidity and wind speed above. “We have deployed several types of cooling systems here, each one used depending on climatic conditions,” says Maria de la Paz Montero Gutiérrez, a researcher at the University of Seville, from down in the building’s bowels where she is helping supervise the project.

AU Adopts Landmark Resolution On Slavery, Colonialism, And Reparations

February 21, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Create! African Union, Colonialism, Reparations, Slavery

African heads of state adopted a historic resolution recognizing slavery, deportation, and colonialism as crimes against humanity, marking a major step in Africa’s long-running struggle for historical justice and reparatory redress. The decision was taken at the conclusion of two days of high-level deliberations during the Thirty-Ninth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from February 14-15. Leaders considered a comprehensive study examining the legal and moral implications of describing colonization as a crime against humanity and certain acts committed during the era of slavery, deportation, and colonial rule as genocide against African peoples.

Financing Freedom: How We Funded Our Co-Op

February 19, 2026 Ray the Spirit. Create! Cooperatives, Financing, Housing, Preservation

When I shared our recent journey to settling into our new home one of the things that most interested people was how the finances work. It is also the aspect of co-operative living that seems to present the biggest challenge to banks, government bodies and boomers alike. In simple terms we are a fully mutual housing co-operative. This means that all of our tenants are members, and all of our members are directors/decision-makers. So while we do all pay rent, we also get a say in what the rent is set at (in our case Local Housing Allowance level) and how that rent is used.

DIY Diehards Building Green Infrastructure From Scratch

February 18, 2026 Peter Yeung, Reasons to be Cheerful. Create! DIY, Energy, Green Energy Transition, Wind Power

Even at a young age, Jonathan Schreiber found that harnessing the power of wind was something of a breeze. Encouraged by his DIY-loving grandfather, the Austrian teenager was always playing around with scrap metal, trying to build tools. At 14, he began studying a book on how to build a wind turbine from old car parts. “I was fascinated by how you could build things yourself and actually create your own energy,” says Schreiber. But it was in 2012, when Schreiber turned 18, that his life would be blown onto a new path. He heard about a man who was an expert in building his own wind turbines.

Do-Nothing Hydroponics

February 10, 2026 Mitch Hagney, Ambrook. Create! climate crisis, Food and Agriculture, Hydroponics, Sustainability

When Bernard Kratky left his Hawaiian home and horticulture research in the ‘80s, he went to learn from another island across the planet with similar challenges. Taiwan, and its Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, was running ambitious experiments to grow resilient crops in developing countries. Breeding sweet potatoes and mung beans, developing disease-resistant tomatoes, and reducing fertilizer inputs were some of their priorities. Among all of the vegetable excitement, Kratky saw researchers growing crops without soil, hydroponically.

Venezuela’s Acting President Calls For Breaking Oil Dependency

February 9, 2026 Olys Guárate, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Communes, Delcy Rodriguez, Oil, Public ownership, US Imperialism, Venezuela

During a community outreach activity in the Almirante Lino de Clemente commune, Miranda state, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez emphasized the strategic need to break with the oil rentier economic model and highlighted the importance of strengthening of the Venezuelan participatory and protagonistic socialist model in this regard. During the activity, held on Saturday, february 7, Rodríguez highlighted that oil revenue will be reserved exclusively for social welfare and the improvement of public services, while production must originate from the territory in the communes.

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