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The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression Paperback – April 3, 2018

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Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.

In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make "personal success" virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig deeper—rethinking the very foundation of our social system.

In this engaging, important work, Peter Joseph, founder of the world's largest grassroots social movement—The Zeitgeist Movement—draws from economics, history, philosophy, and modern public-health research to present a bold case for rethinking activism in the 21st century.

Arguing against the long-standing narrative of universal scarcity and other pervasive myths that defend the current state of affairs, The New Human Rights Movement illuminates the structural causes of poverty, social oppression, and the ongoing degradation of public health, and ultimately presents the case for an updated economic approach. Joseph explores the potential of this grand shift and how we can design our way to a world where the human family has become truly sustainable.

The New Human Rights Movement reveals the critical importance of a unified activism working to overcome the inherent injustice of our system. This book warns against what is in store if we continue to ignore the flaws of our socioeconomic approach, while also revealing the bright and expansive future possible if we succeed.

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"Peter Joseph is one of the great visionaries of our time. If there's a beautiful future—and I think there will be—then his fingerprints will be all over it."
—Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author


"Since 9/11, security took over and retired human rights into a small closet. We need to get back to the issue of rights for all. Hopefully this important work will draw us closer to that reality and promise. Without economic realignment with nature to secure our habitat, along with conquering the sociological roots of fragmentation and bigotry, the human family is in peril."

—Jack Healey, Head of Human Rights Action Center

"One of this generation's greatest visionaries delivers a startling exposé about the violent oppression that defines our economic order, while issuing an urgent call for global activism to unite to change it. Amidst a deepening crisis of capitalism and inequality, coupled with an intensifying assault by the Empire's elite, The New Human Rights Movement provides a crucial roadmap for the movement toward the next system."
–Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files

About the Author

Peter Joseph is an American-born social critic and activist who has lectured around the world on the subject of cultural sustainability. Once deemed "The Herald of Occupy Wall Street" for his tacit prediction of inevitable global uprisings against inequality and economic injustice, his extensive media work has been translated into over 130 languages and experienced by 250 million people. Working in concert with numerous NPOs and grassroots organizations, Joseph's core focus is on socioeconomic structures that undermine progress in the areas of ecological and social justice. He has been featured and profiled in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Free-Speech TV, and TED, and has given over a thousand hours of interviews via radio shows and podcasts in the past decade. He is the president of the 501(c)(3) NPO The Zeitgeist Movement and currently resides in Los Angeles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books; Reprint edition (April 3, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1946885142
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946885142
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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This book presents a map to where we are and a vocabulary of change.Essential reading in our times. And in our minds.Everyone will benefit from the understandings in this book.You'll especially want to pick it up after watching the author's new film Interreflections in order to put the pieces together and see the full picture.
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Thomas William Fraser
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, Humbling and Enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2017
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First off, let me begin by admitting that I have not yet completed the book, but I have been so impressed by what I have read so far as to feel compelled to write this review.

Please understand that I am neither a zeitgeist fanatic nor an uncritically adulating Peter Joseph fanboy, so my motivation for writing this review stems from a sense of true respect for an author who I think deserves high praise on the basis of merit alone.

Joseph's book is incredibly relevant and impeccably researched, yet it nonetheless remains highly accessible. He is one of those rare authors who manages to broach some of the most contentious topics of the day without either dumbing down the analysis or speaking over your head. His analysis is crisp and rigorous and contains myriad insights into our present civilizational condition. He also manages to infuse his analysis with a personal and self-reflective dimension which truly brings it all home.

I am a sociology grad and I truly appreciate Joseph's contribution to the field, particularly for its ability to alert me to my own conceit. We - namely, those who have passed through the university system - often take for granted the assumption that quality scholarship can only ever emerge from the hallowed sanctum of the academe and we all too often sneer at those working from the 'outside'. However, I haven't even finished the book and already I have learnt so much! Consequently, Joseph's text has garnered my respect and I am both grateful for and humbled by his salient erudition.

All in all, this book will awaken your conscience and leave you questing for more - a riveting, humbling and enlightening experience! 100% recommended to all.
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Leandro Caniglia
5.0 out of 5 stars Rebuilding the Future
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2017
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This book helped me understand better why the way we live is driving us to self-destruction. And as I started to identify some of the mechanisms that shape our tragic misfortune, it became increasingly natural to me seeing at other forms of human organization, more logical and sustainable, as results of rational designs which are simpler and smarter at once.

To admit the deception in which we are all immersed, basically the absurdity of monetary incentives, is hard because it leaves us unarmed before the irrationality of the time. That’s why I think these kinds of readings are needed. Because they help us to think better, to discern the few pillars on which we should focus to become more constructive as a species and as individuals.

As I progressed in the reading, I began to realize that I wasn’t so good or honest as I had thought. I also started to understand that a big part of my miseries is a logical consequence if my ignorance, of my psychological or mental limitations, in sum, of everything that prevents me stimulate my critic, including my own behavior, which is not very different from many others and creates patterns of human development highly negative.

Fortunately, the book also gave me some clues on how we could structure the restoration of our collective mistakes. And it did so in a very original way, free from grandiloquence and still plethoric of ideas and meaning.

It is remarkable to see someone able to compile so much wisdom in so few pages and irradiate torrents of light on our otherwise poorly colored existence.

This work is not a wail, is a construction that does not underestimates the reader and puts them in better conditions for considering five basic strategies to rebuild the future.

We need more books like this one, and more thinkers as Peter Joseph, because we need get away from our confusion and the surrounding mediocrity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Using our best scientific understandings and systems thinking
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017
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Peter Joseph's new book, "The New Human Rights Movement", is a thoroughly researched and deeply troubling analysis of the systemic roots of the socioeconomic crisis now facing humanity. It is deeply troubling because the implications and the clarity of the insights he offers lead to an understanding of the magnitude of the problems that humanity must face if we are ever to arrive at a sustainable, peaceful future. His analysis will challenge the deeply held and often unconscious, cultural beliefs of many, requiring critical self examination. Using our best scientific understandings and systems thinking, Peter Joseph leads us inexorably to an awareness of the systemic roots of structural violence that threaten to end a nascent humanity before we realize the promise of our first truly global civilization. The visions offered of a global economy of abundance based on a clear scientific train of thought and an efficient application of technical solutions may never be realized because of the inherent conflicts with behaviors driven by a culture of maximizing self interest based around money, profit, competition and privatization. How humanity will escape this deadly trap of materialism and commercialization remains to be discovered, though Peter Joseph offers many insights into the general directions we must look to discover those solutions. One man can only do so much. The rest is up to us. This book is a state of the planet address to humanity. It should be required reading for every human. Someday, your children and grandchildren will thank you for reading this book, pondering and embracing the understandings it offers. Our collaborative efforts have carried us this far. Only redoubling those efforts will make it possible for us to realize our true potential both as individuals and as a unified human family.
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Ivan Kadelburg
5.0 out of 5 stars Future of humanity
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2024
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Francois
5.0 out of 5 stars Un testo per cambiare il mondo
Reviewed in Italy on May 4, 2021
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Libro che esprime appieno, in modo dettagliato ma al contempo pratico, il pensiero illuminato di Peter Joseph.
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EDWIN ANTONY ALBERT
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Reviewed in India on July 22, 2020
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The system does exactly what it's designed to do. Fabulously compiled book. High five!
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Johanness
5.0 out of 5 stars La mejor alternativa al mundo actual.
Reviewed in Mexico on July 30, 2018
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Este libro es de lectura obligatoria para ponderar la posibilidad de un mundo mejor, alterno al capitalismo que nos consume, y que ha demostrado ser un sistema fallido. La brecha entre ricos y pobres nunca hbaía sido tan grande, y lo peor, no parece que vaya a disminuir en el futuro cercano, Qué hacer? Es obligatorio cambira el paradigma económico qe nos oprime y esclaviza a travñes del crédito y el consumismo. Neceistamos regresar a nuestros orígenes. El libro de P. joseph ofrece una lectura clara del actual sisyema imperante con sus fallas y esboza un futuro mejor para todos.
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Pandini
5.0 out of 5 stars Vale a pena
Reviewed in Brazil on October 13, 2018
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Detalhado, de escrita impecável e de vocabulário técnico, dotado de centenas de referências.
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