Articles by Mobilized News
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Does our economy work for us, or do we work for it?
The Web of Life for all Life
Mobilized News About Shows Contribute News Partners Contact Build the Media Commons Public Media Commons Truth to Power → Power to People We’re building a…
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MOBILIZED NEWS • PUBLIC MEDIA COMMONS The Breakdown — and the Opportunity Why it matters: Our systems are failing in real time—politics, media, and trust….
Collaborative Intelligence
How Our Information Systems Got Captured — And Why We Must Build a Media Commons Why it matters: Whoever controls information controls the story—and whoever…
Improved Financial Systems (Ecological Economics)
Infinite Growth, Finite Planet — Why the Math Won’t Pencil Why it matters: An economy optimized for extraction, exploitation, and colonization treats living systems like…
Power to the People (Energy Systems)
Power, People, and the Price of Extraction Why it matters: For centuries, extractive energy systems (coal, oil, gas) fueled empires—driving colonization, enslavement, land theft,…
Restoring Food Systems Health
Who Feeds Us—and Who Decides? The Fight for the Future of Food Why it matters: The global food system—dominated by a handful of corporations—creates…
Community Wealth-Building 101
Community Wealth-Building 101 A bridge from extraction → shared prosperity The Big Picture Our current economy concentrates wealth and risk. Community wealth-building (CWB) flips…
How to build federated, community-owned networks that replace corporate control
From Gatekeeping → Federation The Big Picture The digital public square is broken. Corporate platforms promised connection — but delivered control, surveillance, and…
How participatory systems, cooperatives, and digital commons can renew trust and power from the ground up
From Top-Down → Bottom-Up How participatory systems, cooperatives, and digital commons can renew trust and power from the ground up The Big Picture Trust…
The Arts: The Connective Tissue of Transformation
Why culture and creativity hold the power to heal, unite, and re-imagine our shared future The Big Picture The arts aren’t decoration — they’re infrastructure…
Used right, AI can democratize creative tools — putting superpowers in local hands.
How AI and emerging tech can empower community creativity — not replace it The Big Picture AI isn’t the end of human creativity —…
Power to the People
How affordable, clean energy and regenerative infrastructure can transform communities The Big Picture The energy revolution isn’t coming — it’s already here. Falling costs,…
From Collapse to Commons
From Collapse to Commons How the corporate media ecosystem broke down — and how community-owned, open-source media can rebuild trust The Big Picture Media…
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Restoring Democracy
Why It Matters The world’s information systems are breaking down. Corporate media’s collapse has left truth fragmented, communities disconnected, and public trust in crisis. But…
The World’s Stage
The Vision: Once, the original World’s Fair showcased the industrial future — steel, steam, and spectacle. Now, we stand at another turning point. The World’s…
Renewable Energy: Expanding—and much more needed
The Report: Delivering the UAE Consensus: Tripling renewable power and doubling energy efficiency by 2030
Mobilized Studios Launches
Collaborate without compromise. Don’t rent a stage. Own the studio. Mobilized Creators Network A New Studio System for the People, by the People We…
Can Media heal the traumas it helped to create?
Building a Trauma-Restoring Media System Matthew Green, author of The Resonant World on Substack and a longtime climate journalist with deep experience at Reuters,…
Smarter cities for healthier coexistence
Corey Gray of the Smart Cities Council provides the opportunity to explore the leading edge of urban innovation, data-driven infrastructure, sustainability, and the ethics of…
Vishal Prasad of Fiji accepts ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ on behalf of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
Vishal Prasad of Fiji accepts ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ on behalf of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Vishal Prasad, Director and co-founder of Pacific Islands…
Right Livelihood wins Alternative Nobel Prize for Advancing Digital Democracy and Bringing Human Dignity to the Heart of AI
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s civic hacker and cyber ambassador, will receive the 2025 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm on 2 December. She is being honoured…