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Jan. 21st at 6:45pm

Join us for a screening of the inspiring and hopeful film "To The End" (2022). It profiles four exceptional young women as they grapple with the challenges of leadership and power while advocating for a Green New Deal and their generation's right to a future. Find out more at ToTheEndFilm.com.

Communities Rising is screening "To The End" on Wednesday, Jan. 21st at 6:45pm (doors open at 6:15pm). RSVP HERE to help us estimate attendance. The venue is downstairs at Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Place). Enter via the driveway on 51st Street and use the stairs. A discussion will follow the film. If possible, we request a $5–$10 donation.

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"Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies To Change The World."

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Featured Article

America’s Problems Are Solvable, Prof. Adam Bonica

Americans work longer hours, pay more out-of-pocket for college and childcare, lack parental leave, and enjoy less economic mobility [compared to other OECD nations]. The share of income going to the top 1 percent is nearly double the OECD average. American CEOs earn, on average, 354 times as much as their workers. More workers are trapped in poverty-wage jobs. Collective bargaining covers fewer workers. And social protections are less generous for those who fall on hard times, with the government raising less in taxes and spending more on the military. …

We spend nearly twice as much on healthcare as other wealthy countries do. Yet life expectancy is well below average, infant and maternal mortality rates are alarmingly high, and more Americans remain uninsured. We suffer from overlapping public health crises—the highest rates of teenage births, drug overdoses, obesity, and gun deaths among peer nations. …

These outcomes flow from a political system designed to suppress participation and amplify affluent voices. Americans express similar interest in politics as citizens of other democracies. Yet our turnout remains depressed through deliberate barriers—voter ID laws, purged rolls, Election Day on a workday, gerrymandered districts.

Our society generates enormous prosperity while deliberately withholding it from those who need it most. That is the American exception. …

America’s problems are solved problems. Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. .... Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. ... Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. ... Paid parental leave is not radical. ... There is another America inside this one, visible in the statistics of nations that made different choices. Call it Latent America: the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful.

My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible. That we exhale, declare victory, and leave in place the Electoral College, the filibuster, the gerrymandered maps, the money-soaked elections that allowed a minoritarian movement to capture the state in the first place. The point is not to get back to normal. Normal is how we got here. …. Despair makes sense when nothing can be done. We know exactly what can be done. We can see it working. … document the failures, design the remedies, prepare for the moment.