@DarkMatter_Labs + co-lead #7GenCities | Adj Professor @mcgillu | Futures Fellow @MacFutureCanada

Joined February 2014
Other worlds are possible, & necessary. Even on the darkest days, let’s lift each other to build them. Here are some ideas & good news: seeds of these futures are already germinating & for some, sprouts & young plants already growing in beautiful ways 🌱 provocations.darkmatterlabs.…
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I was interviewing someone the other day about inequality and they asked what was wrong with extreme wealth. I wish I'd had this excellent report out today to hand. Well-written & well worth a read. Find it at tinyurl.com/risksofextremewe…
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#DBJ2024🔥🗣️ @JayneEngle @DarkMatter_Labs: "@arantzazulab redefining democracy for the futures that we need, learn and share with the world". 👀📸
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Predictably, a great @arantzazulab booklet on designing for democracy innovation arantzazulab.eus/wp-content/… Particularly like the sections on reflection and iteration
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Very much looking forward to this with the incredible @arantzazulab team & partners. It’s been an honor advising & contributing to plans for 2.0 💙
🗣️At the opening panel of the #DBJ2024, we will have a conversation with close advisers and close collaborators (@mirenlarrea @JayneEngle @Xabierbarandi). ✨We will talk about @arantzazulab's journey & ambitions for the future to strengthen democracy from our value system.
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Every Child Matters. Everywhere.
Every Child Matters.
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📍Just now… The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University. The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at mitsage.org
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“Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.” — Toni Morrison✨❤️
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Must-read from Ta-Nahesi Coates on those left out of the #DNC's diversity displays: "No Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say." vanityfair.com/news/story/dn…
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Uncommitted delegates to the Democratic National Convention pressed their demands for a speaking slot to address conditions in Gaza, gaining support from groups at the convention, even as organizers sought to preserve the party’s show of unity. wapo.st/3Mieucc
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"And so we're asking again, everybody, to join us in this effort. To stand strong and say, 'Enough is enough.'" - @RepRashida 📹 @akela_lacy
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A sleeping 6-year-old, executed by a drone. Atrocities we couldn’t have conceived of a year ago, war crimes that have only ever occurred in dystopian sci-fi, now carried out with relish, with impunity, every single day in Gaza. When will it be enough, @VP?
Breaking: The child, Youssef Abu Ayada (6 years old), was killed after being shot in the head by an Israeli "Quadcopter" drone while he was sleeping in a displacement tent near Hamad City, west of Khan Younis.
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time * August 2, 1924
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
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📣 New blog from the Property & Beyond Lab ⁦@DarkMatter_Labs⁩. Darkmatterlabs.property Property is often quasi-sacralized in ownership societies, which are often blind to vast externalities that current property theories create. What ways forward? linkedin.com/posts/jayneengl…
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Wherever you are in this world, and whatever tables you sit at, or whatever rooms you find yourself in, be a @RepRashida in that space. Take up space. Assert your power. Stand with and for humanity and justice. Even if you are the only one doing it.
The only person with their humanity intact.
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BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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TODAY: Protesters gathered outside of the presidential debate in Atlanta to demand Biden and Trump end U.S. aid to Israel.
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These two should really be retired and playing golf together - not competing to take America into World War III. #Debates2024 #LetJillDebate
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Crisis makes radical ideas relevant. Radical ideas inspire social movements. Social movements amplify crisis. How can this dynamic 'Disruption Nexus' be harnessed to bring about transformative change? Check out this insightful new essay by @romankrznaric aeon.co/essays/what-turns-a-…
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