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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: Commentary

Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?

We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…

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14 Jul 2020

Fashion Is Quietly a Major Fossil Fuel Industry—Could a Sustainable Revolution Be Around the Corner?

New York City is the fashion capital of the world. Its streets are peppered with influencers on Instagram photoshoots, its…

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5 Sep 2019

I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib

Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…

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18 May 2019

Fight for your right to repair

You might remember, not that long ago, your town had a camera repair shop. It was probably a mom-and-pop place,…

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27 Feb 2019

Time is a capitalist construct. How do we extract ourselves from it?

You and I are living in a standardized time, right now. Look at the clock on your device. It’s the…

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23 Nov 2018

7 buzzwords developers use that mean your community is about to get screwed

There are so many plans these days to “transform” an area via a “public-private partnership” that will “restore” and “fix”…

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23 Nov 2018

Can Community Rights Save Lake Erie and Ohioan’s Drinking Water?

It’s about communities passing laws to create a society you want your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to live in.…

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23 Nov 2018

This is Hell!

Not really. But that’s the name of the Saturday morning show I was on, in Chicago. Listen here or on soundcloud.

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18 Jul 2017

What Michigan can learn from Bolivia’s water crisis

Turns out, quite a bit. My latest at Model D.

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6 Dec 2016
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