What does the future of women look like post-COVID? Joy Green explores conflicting emerging trends and signals and says it’s time to call for feminist recovery plans. We used to…
Where can we invest now to reduce long-term inequality in the COVID-19 recovery? COVID-19 both exposed and exacerbated cruel social divides. Across the world, not only have poor people suffered…
Bitcoin mining has been blamed for massive blackouts in Iran in major cities in January. Bitcoin mining is considered to be a way to bypass US sanctions, and the low…
We need to understand change to create change. So how does change happen? What does it take for a change process to start? Rodrigo Bautista, Principal Change Designer at Forum…
A member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico, Deb Haaland could become the first Native American Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, Ms. Haaland would oversee management of…
The Justice for Black Farmers act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), addresses historic and ongoing discrimination against Black farmers in the US….
In follow up to a four-year long grassroots campaign, MSPs passed legislation called The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act. The campaign, spearheaded by Monica Lennon, had worked to open…
COVID-19 has increased poverty levels and deepened income, ethnic, gender, geographic inequalities. So what? Will the crisis trigger new, more progressive systems of taxation and redistribution e.g. Universal Basic Income?…
The hidden costs of the current food system are estimated to amount to USD12 trillion a year, rising to USD16 trillion by 2050, according to the the first integrated and…
In an initial move towards tighter gun control by the government in New Zealand, Christchurch held a gun collection drive, the first of 250 planned collections to happen after the Christchurch…
Deborah Frieze, co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative is using a unique model, to help address economic inequality through equitable access to capital and opportunity. The Boston Impact Initiative Fund aims to…
Amidst controversy surrounding the genre of ‘miya’ poetry in Assam, Sanjib Pol Deka, editor of Assamese magazine Aalaap, has come out in support of the poems whose creators are now being…
