This timely article from Yes Magazine highlights nearly a dozen examples of social change success stories from around the world that offer lessons for America. For a country forever thumping its chest about democratic values, but whose own history of suppressing human rights, incarcerating its Black population, and undermining or seeking to overthrow democratically elected governments abroad, these lessons are instructive. Time to re-focus its power and political energies on improving human lives both at home and abroad.
“Across the globe, nation-states provide benefits that remain elusive to those living in the United States, from universal child care and health care, to women’s representation in government, to humane addiction treatment, to meeting the basic human need for sustenance, joy, and a clean, healthy environment. Governments from Australia to Rwanda, from Sweden to Brazil, and from Kenya to Belarus have devised policy solutions to bolster the health, well-being, and basic functioning of their societies … Each of these examples prove that with policy and grassroots activism, it is possible to create equitable opportunities for everyone to grow and thrive. […]”
