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Detroit’s Seniors Joined A Time Bank For Help

October 9, 2026 Jen Zamzow, Next City. , , ,
“It is easier to pick up a phone and get a ride to the airport than ask your neighbor,” says Krista Wyatt, executive director and CEO of TimeBanks.Org. Paying for a service is simply less fraught than asking for a favor — no one wants to be a burden, and plenty of people don’t know their neighbors well enough to try. But many older adults can’t afford to pay out of pocket every time they need a ride, repair, errand, or check-in. In Detroit, nearly 55% of seniors live alone; many live in older homes in need of repairs, face transportation issues, or live with a disability.

A Political-Economic Prequel Of Decolonial Ecological Accounting

September 30, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Substack. , , ,
Decolonial accounting systems could have been imagined twenty years ago, but they would have been much more difficult to implement. The problem was not a shortage of alternative indicators. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, accounting methodologies had become institutionalized through national statistical systems, international financial institutions, development agencies, auditing standards, environmental certification programs, and private financial infrastructure. These institutions had acquired considerable authority to determine what counted as productive, measurable, and valuable.

France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point The Way For Europe

September 16, 2025 Emiliano Brancaccio, il manifesto global. , , , ,
“Due to social unrest, the Musée d'Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday, when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would have surely looked on with sympathy at this shutdown laden with irony, and at the movement that paralyzed Paris on Wednesday with the rallying cry of “let’s block everything.” There were some thoughtless vandals, to be sure. But the protesters were mostly young people, very many women, many immigrants, and red banners were everywhere. Some say the movement originated among the sovereignist right, active on social media. Although that is possible, there was little sign of them on the streets on Wednesday.
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