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Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from the next

system project, open source with Christopher Lighten, economic update with Professor Richard

Wolf, activism from the Democracy at Work Institute and the Tom Harman program.

Society civilizations in some sense are like our bodies if there's something

systemically wrong it's manifesting all over the place in all our organs and

that seems to be what's going on in our world at the moment.

System is failing all around us.

Our infrastructure is falling apart. Our jails are full and can't hold more people.

Our young people are burdened with a trillion dollars in student debt.

We're in a heat the trouble.

When the temperature of the earth is starting to rise that's a very bad sign.

Our earth is running fever and it's running because it's sick in many ways.

In a country like the United States the fact that anywhere from 45 to 15 million people are hungry.

This is a problem.

We can't go on like this. We can't keep moving toward climate catastrophe, nuclear war,

persistence of inequality, poverty, famine.

There is a systems problem. These are not one-off issues. They are interconnected and we have to look at the system as a whole.

It's time to talk about alternatives. It's time to talk about what's next.

We need to be aspirational and be clear about the vision of the world that we want.

What is the system that humanizes us? What is the system that opens up our imagination of possibilities of cooperation?

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