ABSTRACT
This essay takes its starting point in the great eruptions of progressive social movements around the world in the last half-century: by the early 2000s according to one guesstimate “over one – and maybe even two – million organizations working toward ecological sustainability and social justice” (Hawken 2007: 2; see also Mason 2013).2 And especially in the intersections and crossfertilizations of these movements, the horizons of reality and possibility are being redefined. In the intergalactic encuentros of the Zapatistas, World Social Forum gatherings, Arab uprisings, Occupy gatherings, and countless other crossroads, people are discovering one another across differences of many kinds, and challenging one another to fundamental conversions from established modes of thinking and organizing.3 And, facing the colossal concentrations of power, the blind faith of global elites, their blindness to the effects of their policies, their gross distortion of public debate, their readiness to resort to violence, and the darkening storms of eco-social apocalypses, new ways of seeing are central to expanding our visions of the world, forging wider solidarities, and nurturing shared hope that “another world is possible.”
