The People's Board

Who Sets the Terms of Change?

Suppose you want to leave a job because the work conflicts with your values. You find an organization doing something you believe in. The people are committed, the mission matters, and the salary requires a substantial adjustment to your life. Perhaps the benefits do, too.

The Support That Makes Refusal Possible

Before asking someone to leave a harmful workplace, it is worth asking where they will sleep the following month. Who will pay for their medication? Who will collect their children if the arrangement built around their shift falls apart? A person weighing those questions may...

The Second Door in Civic Life

People can see their security eroding while still getting the kids to school and showing up for work. An account of everything going wrong offers little help with the next free hour. Somewhere between private frustration and a public commitment, there needs to be a place to...

When public institutions are systematically defunded over decades, who absorbs the compounding costs of deferred reckoning — and how does the predictable arrival of crisis get converted into political permission for privatization that further concentrates those costs on the populations least able to exit?

How does children's structural exclusion from democratic accountability mechanisms — their civic voicelessness — make youth-serving infrastructure chronically vulnerable to austerity logic, and how do capital-flight narratives function as a disciplinary mechanism that subordinates long-term social reproduction investment to short-term elite retention?