We Are Involuntarily Renegotiating the Social Contract Around the World (recent protest movements to fix the social contract)
2010-2016: The Big Backlash
2020-09 Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward (my Unfinished keynote)
2021-12-23 OGM Check-in Call
2022-09-06 BMDA Keynote (Kaunas): Collective Sensemaking for a Future that Makes Sense
Designing from Trust in the Never Normal (2022 interview)
Is the Anti-Democracy Movement Reaching a Tipping Point in the US and Around the World?
Rethinking (and Renegotiating) the Social Contract
The Colonial Roots of Present Crises
This is the most dangerous time for our planet (xlnt)
#BlackLivesMatter (2016 BLM)
Extinction Rebellion (2018 XR)
Gilets Jaunes Protests (2018 Yellow Vests)
Global Shift to the (Far) Right
Many Countries in Turmoil with Street Protests (2019)
Many People Believe Their Children’s Future Is Worse than the Present. They Are Pissed.
Occupy Wall Street (2011 #OWS)
Probably the largest and most violent systemic crisis occurred between 1854 and 1871.
Punctuated Equilibrium (1972)
Republican Tea Party Movement (2010)
School Strikes for Climate (2019)
The Social Contract Is Broken
Tiananmen Protests and Crackdown (6/3/1989 "the 6/4 incident")
‘Try to stop me’ – the mantra of our leaders who are now ruling with impunity
“The social contract is broken with the consumer — they don’t want to watch the ads.”
#BlackTwitter After #Ferguson
#BLM Is White People's Problem
#BLM Protests Surge after the George Floyd Killing.
#Coronavirus + #BLM + #Boogaloo = #PerfectStorm (start of meltdown?)
1909 School Strike for Climate
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests (tank man video)
2010–2011 Tunisian (Jasmine) Revolution
2011 Unrest's Effects on Jordan
2019 Bolivian Protests (Evo rigs election?)
2019 Citizenship Amendment Act Protests in India
2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests
2019 Iraqi Protests (Tishreen Revolution)
2019 Santiago Protests (Metro price hikes)
2021-06-09 REX Check-in Call
2021-11-30 Build OGM Call
2022-02-26 People First at Material Change
2022-03-29 PJB on Limecoats
2023-03-30 OGM Check-in Call
2023 Argentine general election (Milei wins; wow)
A (Working) 'Arab Spring' Reading List
A new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front
A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe (2022 podcast)
About 41% of the global population are under 24. And they’re angry…
Actresses Wear Black in #metoo Solidarity at 2018 Golden Globes #TimesUp
After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself
Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017)
Ali Ahmed Explains the Conflict in Egypt
All the King’s Consultants: The Perils of Advising Authoritarians
America Needs a Better Plan to Fight Autocracy
Why American Collapse is Coming to a Country Near You
Anger Fueling the Global Shift to the Right
Arab Revolutions and the Social Media Effect
Arab Spring, Start-Up Summer?
Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests
Arab world unrest has Jordan's king under pressure
Arabs are democracy's new pioneers
Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - BBC News
Art of the Umbrella Movement
Articles About Extinction Rebellion
Articles About OWS (Occupy)
Articles About OWS Until the First "Cleanup" (11/15/11)
Articles About the Tea Party
As Shariah Experiment Becomes a Model, Indonesia’s Secular Face Slips
Australia Election Results: Prime Minister Scott Morrison Seizes a Stunning Win (2019)
Authorities Are Labeling XR and Milder Groups as Extremists
Battle Lines Harden Across the Mideast as Rulers Dig In
Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen
Black Lives Matter (2013)
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force (2023 pdf)
Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010)
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021)
CACEROLAZO ARGENTINA 2001
Can Local News Coops Fill the Civic Desert?
China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments
Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
Contagion from 2011 Arab Unrest
Contract from America (2010)
Cop says “We only kill black people” on camera: shocking, not surprising
Cultivating Trust for Peace on Earth
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism (2019)
Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere
Democracy Devouring Itself: The Rise of the Incompetent Citizen and the Appeal of Right Wing Populism (2019 pdf)
Democracy is dying – and it’s startling how few people are worried
Do today's global protests have anything in common?
Does 2020 Mark a Generational Tipping Point?
Doing Nothing Steers Civilization Right off a Cliff
Egypt's Warning: Are You Listening?
Egyptian Revolution of 2011
Ethical Quandary for Social Sites
Eurasia is destabilizing in multiple dimensions.
Events That Marked Gen Z's Lives
Every Revolution Is Revolutionary in Its Own Way
Everything Is Broken (and how to fix it)
Eyeballing Tiananmen Square Massacre
Five years on, what happened to the men of #MeToo?
For too many people in too many countries, democracy isn’t working
France is deeply fractured. Gilets jaunes are just a symptom
France’s New Protest Movement Is Tailor Made for the Macron Era
France’s Yellow Vests Reveal a Crisis of Mobility in All Its Forms
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)
From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues
Glenn Beck: Empathy for Black Lives Matter (wow!)
Global Attacks on the Media by the Far Right
Global Conservative Victories in the Runup to 2020 in the US
Googlers Walk Out over Lenient Treatment of #MeToo Offenders (2018)
Greta Thunberg says school strikes have achieved nothing
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (2020)
Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
Homegirls’ guide to being powerful
Hopes Raised During the Arab Spring Are Being Revived Across North Africa (2019)
How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip
How Black Lives Matter Changed the Way Americans Fight for Freedom
How Can We Win Kimberly Jones Video - #BLM 2020 What Can I Do
How FaceBook Changed The World The Arab Spring [1/4]
How France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ Differ From Populist Movements Elsewhere
How Nationalism Can Destroy a Nation
How Should Men and Women Handle a Post-Weinstein World?
How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ (impt)
How Strongmen Co-opted Democracy
How Vladimir Putin is waging war on the West – and winning (2015)
How We Got Here (Jerry's amateur theory)
How YouTube Radicalized Brazil (xlnt and frightening)
Hundreds of Women Run for Office in 2018, Motivated by the Trumpocalypse
If People Don’t Have Wages, Give Them Credit!
Intentional Undermining of Civil Society
Interesting Perspectives on the Arab Unrest
Is Russia Fascist?: Unraveling Propaganda East and West (2021)
Is Trump's Win the Beginning of the End of Democracy?
Jair Bolsonaro presidential campaign, 2018
Japan's rising right-wing nationalism
Jill Lepore On Why We Need a New American National Story (xlnt)
Just who are the gilets jaunes?
Kaepernick Sits during the National Anthem, in Protest (later, takes a knee)
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Kristof Witnessed the Shootings in Tiananamen
Leaders Toppled in the Arab Spring
League of nationalists (xlnt)
Lebanon's Hariri announces reform package after days of protests
Listen to Janelle Monáe's new protest song, Hell You Talmbout
Livestream of Occupy Wall Street
Many Civil Servants Became Entrepreneurs after Tiananmen
March For Our Lives (March 24, 2018 MFOL)
Middle East protests: Country by Country (map)
Minneapolis Police Kill George Floyd. Protests Erupt (2020)
Modi Wins Reelection (2019)
Muslim Brotherhood Everywhere In 2011 Arab Unrest
Nationalism Is on the Rise
Neoliberalism Is Cracking, Losing Support
New Leadership in Brazil (2016 - old white men)
Nicholas Kristof on Tiananmen Square
Nikki Haley (née Nimarata Randhawa)
No Help Wanted: Outside Technical Advice for the US Military
Not Role Models for Limecoats
Notes From An Emergency (xlnt)
Occupy Observers and Influencers
Ola Conservadora (2014+ Conservative Wave, backlash to Pink Tide)
One core feature of Trumpism is that it forces you to betray every other commitment you might have: to the truth, moral character, the Sermon on the Mount, conservative principles, the Constitution.
Open Society Needs Defending (2016 xlnt)
Opinion: It’s not enough to push back against authoritarianism
Our Broken Social Contract
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We Are Involuntarily Renegotiating the Social Contract Around the World (recent protest movements to fix the social contract)
