Post #25: Fuel for Freedom: Capital, Community, and the Work Ahead A Concluding Digest of Key Ideas, Tools, and Actions from the AtA Series

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Post #24: Onward! Impact Driven Organizations and the Challenge of Autocracy Impact is in our Name--Let's get cracking!

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This Socrates’ Confession Is the Smartest Move You’ll Ever Make Most people spend their entire lives avoiding this.

This Socrates’ Confession Is the Smartest Move You’ll Ever Make by @Alltopstartups medium.com/personal-gro...

This is the winter of our rage. Bless the protesters in Minneapolis.

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.

And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

#11: Facing Autocracy in Our Present and Days to Come Or More Simply Put: Sit Down! Stand Up! Act! Sit Down!

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Jed Emerson (@blendedvalue) Solid reporting on our present history. Definitely worth reading…

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#12: Of Art and Autocracy: Novels and Poetry, Humor, Music and Movies If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk you can sing!

A different part of the conversation? Song? Poem?

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#12: Of Art and Autocracy: Novels and Poetry, Humor, Music and Movies If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk you can sing!

A different part of the conversation? Song? Poem?

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Bonus Post: On Autocracy and Race Reflections from the classroom

From @stevewright, connecting the dots for us!

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#9: Capital Innovations as Tools of Challenge and Change A brief overview of the evolution of ESG, Impact Investing, and discussion of “Backlash”

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Bonus Post: Just Wait Until Your Forefather Gets Home! Guess who is going to get a collective spanking now!! (And please don't be so excited!)

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#8: Organizations of Note: Ours, Theirs and The Radical Center While systems change starts with the individual, remember that we're better together!

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💡 Business and nature are partners, not opposites.

Launching at #IPBES12, the first-ever @IPBES.net #BizBiodiversity Assessment will reveal how industries can turn dependence on nature into lasting resilience. 🌿

Read the primer: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

Overtime

Antidote to Autocracy | Jed Emerson | Substack Exploring the Nature of Value in a World Gone Mad. Click to read Antidote to Autocracy, by Jed Emerson, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Getting great feedback and resonance on the series so far! Greatly appreciate the support and your reading these as I do believe I’ve gathered some great material from some of the best thinkers and observers on our times—with many more to come! 🙏🤔🇺🇸

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Letter from Jed: Standing up to the new American authoritarianism (Editor’s note: Jed Emerson is an “OG” of impact investing, having coined the concept of blended value more than three decades ago. He ...

@jedbv.bsky.social has a question for Agents of Impact. “If small, emerging managers such as @adasina.bsky.social can find their voice in this moment, why can’t the rest of us?”

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#4: Past as Future: Key Concepts and Terms We have been here before!

To clarify a few key points regarding where we are in our process of moving from a democracy to what lies ahead.

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#4: Past as Future: Key Concepts and Terms We have been here before!

To clarify a few key points regarding where we are in our process of moving from a democracy to what lies ahead.

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It is a moral outrage that Congress, which has barely worked for the last three months, is still being paid while federal workers are being forced to work every day without pay.

Trump admin to investigate 'No Kings' protests President Donald Trump has said officials will probe whether George Soros "and other radical left lunatics" helped to fund the "No Kings" protests.

President Donald Trump said his administration is probing whether the billionaire philanthropist George Soros "and other radical left lunatics" helped to fund the "No Kings" protests on Saturday.

To what end? What does he hope to accomplish? Another diversion?

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!!!!!!!

#2: A General Overview of What Is and Shades of What's to Come Assessments of our current state

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The latest offering in the series…
Hope you enjoy and please do share!
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#1: Introductory Thoughts on Autocracy Exploring the Nature of Value in a World Gone Mad

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Maybe it's just me but if someone changed their "Department of Defense" to the "Department of War" I don't really think they should ever be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize because they really aren't into the idea of peace.

On October 18th…

#NoKings

#3: A Modest Historical Review of How We Got Here 16 Snapshots, 16 Shafts of Light

What are the main resilience strategies and antidotes to the rise of authoritarianism in our societies? Read @jedbv.bsky.social for some good research and thoughts on this from a very rare and important angle - an American financier and investment reformist. open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...

#2: A General Overview of What Is and Shades of What's to Come Assessments of our current state

#2: A General Overview of What Is and Shades of What's to Come
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Can we talk about your silence? before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)

Can we talk about your silence?
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