We can replace the ethos of endless growth and conspicuous consumption with an approach to nature based on awe and wonder at the preciousness of the earth, love of all beings, and celebration of life.
Activism
Boiling Point: Why Do We Let Big Oil Send Workers to Their Deaths?
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In exposing unsafe working conditions to the public, the refinery workers are raising not just contract demands, but a deeper challenge about the immorality of a profit-driven production system that simply monetizes the loss of human life on corporate spreadsheets.
2015
A Buddhist and Interfaith Response to Debt Capitalism
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In order to alleviate mass suffering, there is a spiritual urgency for the interfaith community in the United States to bring attention and public awareness to this global issue of debt crisis and jubilee.
2015
Reforming Money and Banking: Keys to Debt and Jubilee
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In the face of economic instability, we need to consider creative solutions—like jubilee, public banking policies, and currency reform—that take into account the complexity of the environment, the nature of money itself, and the possibility for social innovation.
2015
Three Books on Restructuring Global Economics
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by Michael Edwards, Jonathan Brandow, Brian D. McLaren
2015
A Religious Movement to End Predatory Payday Lending
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Interfaith coalitions have much to offer in the fight against abusive loans.
2015
Transcending Market Logic: Envisioning a Global Gift Economy
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The act of mothering shatters the market-based expectation of equal exchange. Building on that model, let’s build a global gift economy.
2015
Debt Forgiveness: Who Owes Whom for What?
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Most debtors have committed no wrongs, so what is called for is liberation—not forgiveness. The colossal, valid debt that remains is climate debt.
2015
Building an International Bank for Right Livelihood
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It’s time to create an alternative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund—a global bank that prioritizes sustainability, not growth.
2015
Buddhism and Debt
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What resources does Buddhism offer toward Jubilee? To achieve the Buddhist goal of release from karmic debt, we must annul economic debt.
2015
Embracing the Radical Economics of the Bible
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The spirit of the Jubilee laws is clear and relevant: to prevent the emergence of a permanently impoverished underclass.
2015
Power Without the King: The Debt Strike as Credible Threat
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If we want to abolish debt, we’ll have to do it ourselves. If debtors refuse to pay, our debts cease being our problem—they become the bank’s problem!
2015
Transcending Economic Dualities
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Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier. Review by Miki Kashtan.
2015
You Are Not a Loan: Strike Debt and the Emerging Debtors Movement
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Millions of Americans incur debt to pay for basic needs. To escape this trap, we must “come out” as debtors and start experiencing our debts collectively.
Articles
The Jubilee and the Global Economy: Lessons from Leviticus
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Undoubtedly, the present economic order is marred by social and economic injustice among and within nations and by the overexploitation and destruction of natural resources. Scripture is not concerned with designing an economic system, but rather with prescribing how to implement justice and compassion within any given system.