We live in a culture that tells us to face the world’s problems on our own—but any chance we have of making transformative change can only come from organizing collectively.
This past year, governments around the world responded to sustained popular pressure—Portugal announced a radical plan to tackle the housing crisis; Chile signalled that it will nationalize its lithium industry; Brazil instituted measures that cut deforestation in the Amazon by 60 per cent in a single year; and civil society organizations won a binding referendum in Ecuador rejecting oil drilling in the Amazon.
There are also plenty of examples of grassroots struggles winning small but real material changes within Canada…
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