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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only “modest gestures of care”—and who seem to have moved directly to “mourning” our inevitable environmental losses—Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.

The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in…

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 2d

If anything deserves more likes and retweets (and serious consideration) than what it’s getting here, it’s this!!!

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer.

Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."

Blue Bonds Can Stop Trump’s Fiscal Authoritarianism

By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Less than a year into his second term, Donald Trump has launched an illegal and (as now) unfeasible mass deportation campaign—one that is tearing apart…

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 8d

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Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Author at rabble.ca

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 20d

OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
- Walt Whitman

Anaximander @autoplectic.bsky.social · Mar 17

I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.

(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)

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Drum-taps, by Walt Whitman

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 20d

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 20d

Anyone in the KC area, there is a screening of Finding the Money, the MMT documentary, followed by a panel discussion with the audience moderated by myself at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church, 9400 Pflumm Road, Lenexa, Kansas Thursday, September 18, 7pm. UMKC Economics!
Modern Money!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 20d

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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Block the Bombs Sign-On Letter

Organizations based in Kansas City, MO are coming together under the leadership of Al-Hadaf, a Palestinian-led justice organization, and Jewish Voice for Peace-KC to demand that Rep. Cleaver support H...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 25d

Denison University Professor/GISP President Fadhel Kaboub: “Fiscal space is constrained by potential inflation risks…The good news is that productive capacity is producible, and its production creates even more jobs.”
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How African Nations can fund their own Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - MyJoyOnline

Let's look at a monumental example that's literally reshaping the landscape of East Africa: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 28d

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A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations to Dr Vishal Choudhury for successfully defending his UMKC doctoral dissertation yesterday, “Three Essays in Political Economy.” A very “Happy to You!” (with Vishal and family in KC a month ago.)

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Aug 31

www.crossbordernetwork.org

The Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity

The Cross Border Network supports workers across borders and who cross borders. We connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the forced migration.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank YOU! Honored to build on what you’ve pioneered with the Cortland Uni currency—a concept and model that travels well, as my students are quick to point out.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Jul 29

Discussion of Jamee Moudud’s new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Collective. Please consider registering and sharing with others. July 30, 2025

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Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire? - Law and Political Economy Collective

Join the LPE Collective for a talk from Jamee Moudud on his new book, "Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire?"

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Jul 4

earth’s wretched
soon to be stretched
to reach necessary
for the change!

end the strange
alignment of breakback
for the riffraff!

be no more mindslave
of the jiffypop
member-only stinkflop
to satisfy limpstick!

the call to spread
and the
song of the dirt and sky!

Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · May 31

Professor Ngugi visited Temple University the year this came out, 1986. A Powerful Force of Deep Humanity!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · May 14

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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · Apr 26

Shout out to UMKC @mathewforstater.bsky.social and @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social for getting all this started with the buckaroo and Denison dollars! The UNI grows !

Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank YOU! Honored to build on what you’ve pioneered with the Cortland Uni currency—a concept and model that travels well, as my students are quick to point out.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · May 9

Dr. Matthew Robinson, UMKC Economics & Geosciences, successfully defended his interdisciplinary PhD dissertation, Public Money and Reparations, supervised by Dr Linwood Tauheed, committee includes Scott Fullwiler, Bill Black, Carolyn Davies and Mathew Forstater.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Apr 15

UMKC, needless to say

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Apr 15

Dr. Josefina Li and committee members following the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, The Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Society.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Apr 14

From Fadhel Kaboub:

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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · Apr 12

The United Nations has designated it as the Year of #Cooperatives!

Our book, "Beyond #Racial Capitalism," coedited w/ Sharon Wright Austin UF and Kevin Edmonds #UofT, delves into #membership institutions.
Consider citing & incorporating it into classes. You can access (lnkd.in/g_98spgg)

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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · Mar 3

@msmagazine.bsky.social Founded by and for #feminists - Rickey Gard Diamond of An Economy of Our Own #aeoo wrote a story about the work I do, here is the link: msmagazine.com/2023/06/28/f...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · Apr 8

Some recent doctoral dissertations like Rafed Huq, Sam Levey, and Alex Valchyshen completely fill me with confidence about the quality of interdisciplinary heterodox political economy today.

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