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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.

Residents Built A $10,000 Bike Lane In Atlanta

September 28, 2025 Aysha Kahn, Next City. Create! Atlanta, Bikes, Transportation, Urban Design

In 2020, city planning and transportation officials in Atlanta launched a tactical urbanism program to enable neighborhood groups to lead and fund alternative street design and safety changes through low-cost, temporary interventions. “These projects are often used to advance longer-term goals related to street safety and the design of public spaces,” the city explains in its tactical urbanism guide. “Tactical urbanism is temporary in nature, using tactical materials while demonstrating the potential of long-term change.” The 20th project under this initiative was just completed: turning street parking on one side of Virgina Avenue NE into a pop-up, protected, two-way bike lane, connecting a local high school and elementary school.

Make Trains Great Again For The Sake Of People And The Planet

September 24, 2025 Nature. Create! climate crisis, Environment, health, Railroads, Transportation

What if there were a technology that could help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, air pollution and environmental degradation, while improving health, reducing social inequality and boosting economic growth? There is, and this month it turns 200. The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northeast England on 27 September 1825 is generally considered to be the birth of the modern railway — an event that set in motion a revolution in human mobility and social organization. Initially, the railways enjoyed breakneck expansion, but since the mid-twentieth century, railway development in most countries has hit the buffers, and been overtaken by growth in road and air travel.

Could A ‘Maximum Wage’ Combat Billionaire Power?

September 24, 2025 Celeste Pepitone-Nahas, In These Times. Create! Billionaires, Finance and the Economy, Maximum Wage, wealth inequality

In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, the power of the extremely wealthy over public policy has never been more evident. As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has asserted, “Trump has… said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.” The troubling extent to which we are ruled by the rich is hardly debatable. The real question is: what can we do about it? One solution that has been proposed in the past is implementing a “maximum wage.” Such a cap would limit the amount any individual can earn over a given period. There are a couple different ways that this limit could be accomplished. One way would be to use tax policy: We could simply levy a 100% tax rate on income over a particular level. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed such a measure during his administration in the 1940s.

The UAW Has A Vision For Green Industrial Policy In California

September 22, 2025 Paul Prescod, Portside. Create! California, Green Energy Transition, UAW, Unions

A consensus is emerging across the political spectrum around the need for industrial policy. Whether in the form of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act under Joe Biden in 2022 or the haphazard tariff policy of Donald Trump implemented earlier this year, political leaders on both sides of the aisle are clearly searching for answers regarding how to revive the United States’s flagging manufacturing base. While the Trump administration places a lot of rhetorical emphasis on bringing back industrial jobs, its policies so far have displayed a profound lack of seriousness or coherence. Trump’s tariffs have not been focused on strategic industries or paired with the investment and planning required to make jobs actually materialize.

Digital Tools Fuel The Rise Of New ‘Time Exchange’ Solidarity Economies

September 18, 2025 Ella Fassler, Truthout. Create! Alternative Currency, Local Economy, Solidarity Economy, Time Banks

In Kent, Ohio, older white women and immigrant families are forging unexpected connections through a time exchange network. Through time exchanges — sometimes called time banking — members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need assistance themselves. It’s not barter, or charity; time banking emphasizes reciprocal exchange, recognizing that everyone has something to offer, and that we all need help sometimes. “The time bank usually has a need for healthy young men,” laughed Dawn Albright, president of the Kent Community Time Bank’s board of directors. “I would say, 70 percent of the members are older women.” Younger immigrant members of the time bank often offer assistance with household tasks, like carrying heavy things up the stairs.

Rural Europe Takes Action: Food System Lessons From Marburg

September 17, 2025 ARC2020 Staff, Resilience. Create! Europe, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Local Economy

Summer’s flowers hang dried in neat bunches around the workshop room of the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, as changemakers from France, Germany and Poland gather in the early days of winter 2024. What can rural communities do in the face of the ecological, social and economic crises society faces today, and what role can cross-border exchange between local actors play? These questions marked the coming together of what we have come to call the rural Weimar triangle, a grassroots counterpart – and perhaps challenge to – the high-level diplomatic agreement between the governments of these three countries. Villages, towns and cities, after all, have a lot to offer in response to today’s global challenges.

What Happens When Indigenous Nations Take Back Their Lands

September 14, 2025 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Environment, Indigenous culture, Indigenous Stewardship, Land Back Movement

Few phrases spark more panic in Canada than “land back.” The moment people hear it, a familiar fear floods the air: Are they going to take over? Kick us out of our homes? Erase entire towns? We saw how this hysteria plays out in Oka, Gustafsen lake, and Caledonia. Headlines screamed disruption and disorder. In each case, the public fixated on road blockades, police and military clashes, and ‘vengeful’ protesters while largely ignoring the deeper story of Indigenous Peoples that were simply standing their ground. The recent Cowichan ruling sparked the same colonial reflex: homeowners braced for eviction, commentators predicted chaos, and officials rushed to reassure the public.

De-Commodifying The Soil

September 12, 2025 DarWeaver, Resilience. Create! Decommodify, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Land Reform

During high summer, I do my best to get up early and be out in the field with the sheep before the sun reaches its full power. From May to October, I move them onto fresh pasture every few days, a rhythm that keeps me attuned to the needs of the land and disperses their manure evenly without allowing them to compact or overgraze any one section. A field like this feeds more than the livestock that graze it. Throughout the growing season, it offers nourishment for countless insects, pollinators, reptiles, ground-nesting birds, water tables, and traveling wildlife. The fertile soil, chest-high grasses, and flowers offer refuge for all of us here on the ridge. As I survey the awakened landscape, my gratitude for the living gifts of this world shifts to grief.

New York City Housing Authority Needs Money; Stock Transfer Tax Delivers It

September 11, 2025 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. Create! Housing, New York City (NYC), Public Housing, Stock Transfer Tax

A couple of very important things came out of Community Board 4's September 3 meeting, in which members officially rejected NYCHA’s plan to turn over the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses to private developers for demolition and reconstruction. One is that the public housing residents actually living there do not want to see their homes and community torn down in the name of “redevelopment.” The other is that there has got to be a better way for the City of New York to take care of public housing than handing over the keys to profit-driven private developers looking to make a killing. Well, it turns out there is—but no one has the guts to do it. And that’s because in New York City, kicking senior citizens out of their homes is much easier than demanding the wealthy pay their fair share.

Resisting Disaster Capitalism Through Mutual Aid In Puerto Rico

September 9, 2025 Ester Dazzo, Transnational Institute. Create! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Puerto Rico

Since 2016, Puerto Rico has faced a complex crisis, when it declared bankruptcy, worsening a fiscal crisis after a decade of recession. In response, Obama signed the PROMESA law, aiming to restructure the debt and enforce fiscal responsibility. It created the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), a body comprised of seven members appointed by the US President, which can override local laws, blatantly highlighting Puerto Rico's colonial status. In 2017, the Board imposed a ten-year plan of austerity, cutting budgets for healthcare, education, and other vital services. The inability of the government to deal with the economic crisis led to an increase in political distrust.

A Story Of Resistance And Renewal: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune

September 7, 2025 Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. Create! Afro-descendants, Communes, History, Venezuela

On the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Palmarito is an Afro-Venezuelan community shaped by centuries of history, culture, and resilience. Its people carry forward traditions rooted in their African heritage and in the fishing trade. Central to Palmarito’s way of life is the socialist commune, a form of popular self-government that transforms everyday life and work into a shared project. The town forms part of the “pueblos santos,” a cluster of Afro-descendant communities bound together by devotion to San Benito of Palermo, the “Black saint,” and the ritual rhythms of the Chimbánguele. Life in Palmarito has always revolved around the lake—its fish provide sustenance and its water routes connect those living along its shores.

Following Sol Power Solar’s Example, R.I. Worker Co-Ops Gain Energy

September 6, 2025 Eric Halvarson, ecoRI News. Create! Cooperatives, Energy, Renewable Energy, Rhode Island, Solar Energy, Worker Rights and Jobs

Charlestown, R.I. – Sol Power Solar has installed renewable energy for more than 1,100 customers since becoming an early pioneer in Rhode Island’s solar industry in 2013. The staff credit this success to the company’s business model, in which each employee is an equal owner of the company. Now, Sol Power and a group of fellow cooperative businesses are trying to pave the way for workers to democratically run their own workplaces across the state. When Eric Beecher founded Sol Power, he always knew he wanted it to be democratically run. “It just seemed to me like the best way to run a company, kind of the fairest and most sustainable way to do it,” said Beecher, who notes the company is technically an LLC because it was established before the state allowed businesses to register as workers’ cooperatives.

Mobile Home Mobilization

September 5, 2025 Eleni Schirmer, In These Times. Create! Affordable Housing, Capitalism, Cooperatives, Mobile Homes, Vermont

For Gayle Pezzo, it started with the snowplows. In the fall of 2018, following a winter distinguished by the biggest snowfall in years, the town of Colchester, Vt., stopped plowing the nearly five miles of roads that snake through Westbury Mobile Home Park, where Pezzo, 72, lives. She and her neighbors were furious that the local government could simply withdraw its services and leave the park in the lurch. According to the Colchester Selectboard, the town’s five-member governing body, clearing Westbury’s roads was not the responsibility of public plows. They had decided that Westbury was a private residence — in effect, one with a long, rambling driveway that happened to shelter 250 working-class Vermont families.

Bioregioning As The Response To ‘Gaia On The Move’

September 4, 2025 David Bollier. Create! Bioregions, Ecosystems, Education, Environment

Isabel Carlisle is a leading figure in bioregional education and action who has a great term for describing the planetary eco- mayhem now underway -- “Gaia on the move.” As climate change intensifies and humankind disrupts ecosystems, Gaia is causing ice caps and glaciers to melt and the atmospheric jet stream to skitter and shift course. The Amazonian forest becoming a net emitter rather than absorber of atmospheric carbon As these system-changes disrupt local ecosystems, through coastal flooding for example, Carlisle sees cues for how to move forward. The disruptions “reveal where the fragility is,” said Carlisle, and that’s where to focus attention.

Sweden’s ‘Secondhand Only’ Shopping Mall Is Changing Retail

September 4, 2025 Mary-Ann Ball, Next City. Create! Circular Economy, Fashion Industry, Recycling, Retail, Sustainability

As a fashion sustainability researcher, finding the ReTuna shopping mall in Eskilstuna was a delightful surprise. Stepping into this Swedish shopping centre felt refreshingly different – it is the first in the world to sell only secondhand and repurposed items. During numerous visits to the shopping mall over the last 18 months, I have spoken to customers, managers and employees – all of whom seemed excited by ReTuna’s innovative business model. The mall instantly feels very different to the cluttered charity shops or vintage boutiques most of us associate with pre-owned retail. There is a wide range of products on sale – fashion, sports equipment, household items, children’s toys, antiques – and even an Ikea secondhand store selling previously used and repaired furniture.

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