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The Constitutive Fallacy: We Cannot Achieve justice and the Freedom It Brings After Power Relations Have Already Formed
Systems of governance and their laws derive from people, who derive from their creation. Justice (distributive, procedural, retributive, ecological, intergenerational, etc.) and the rule law therefore begin in the dynamic formation of our first relations, or ideally,...
Calling for Voices: Think Your Future Child Deserves a Fair Start?
This past Fourth of July, two everyday people Cassie and Matt - exemplified what it would mean to constitute communities that are actually free, in part by compensating future generations for the harm we have caused them through the climate, inequity and other...
Orgs Are Speaking Out on Smaller Families, and It’s Having an Impact
Kudos to Fair Start Movement coalition member, Population Matters for bringing attention to the topic of smaller families. The group awarded $695 to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be gifted to the charity of their choice, for making the decision to limit their...
Our Real Impact on Animals: Incalculable. Until now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWd37O8qkLs Human population growth is the greatest threat to animals across the globe. For World Population Day, we’re launching a campaign around our interactive Animal Mortality Calculator designed to show individuals and...
World Population Day: Young Women, Small and Sustainable Families, and Our Right to Take the Wealth Our Kids Deserve
The climate and nature crises that our planet faces are rooted in both population and consumption. We cannot waste precious time by pointing fingers between consumption and population - we need to talk about both in tandem, as our survival and quality of life,...
Next Generations Speak Out at Fair Start: Brooke Morales
Brooke Morales is beginning her second year at Virginia Tech where she studies Psychology and Philosophy. She has a strong interest in helping animals and the environment through the legal system. This interest emerged when she came across various films and literature...
Relative Freedom From the Power of Others As a Baseline to Assess Cost
How do we know what counts as a cost or benefit in a particular transaction? Enter the idea of normative baselines, or the theoretical states of affairs by which we can answer the question. But is there an antecedent question nesting in the above-linked list of...
The Fundamental Justice Mistake We Must Correct
In the middle of the twentieth century world leaders misinterpreted the right to have children under Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure a particular level of continued population growth to grow their base, to reinforce power structures,...
A True Independence Day? Watch Fair Start in Action
While a lot of people celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks and beer, some are asking what it truly means to be free, and how to create a world that ensures that freedom for all with equal opportunity, a meaningful role in smaller and more effective...
@WordswithSteph She was right and millions of us knew she was right.
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Great article @AndreaTWeather. One comprehensive approach? Target the assets of those who benefitted from the crisis to fund fulfillment of the first human right: http://Fairstartmovement.org
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/act-on-climate-emergency-now-to-prevent-millions-of-deaths-study-shows/
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#Orleg failed to pass or even take seriously a severance tax on timber, depriving rural communities of much needcwed $ https://twitter.com/DemocracyOregon/status/1419811035033182210
Who does #orleg work for? #OregonBetterTogether #orpol @ORForests
Watch #TeamUSA at the #TokyoOlympics show the #TeamofTomorrow what The Games are all about — respect, unity and sportsmanship.
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