Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, translator, and university lecturer based in Europe. Her articles appear regularly in The Nation, In These Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

She is also the author of Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe, a book that came out a few months ago and has given me so much hope and inspiration for the United States.

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What you’ll hear:

  • Does the American Dream still exist?
  • The answer: what’s already working in many places around the world
  • Why you won’t lose your home if you lose your job in hyper-capitalist Singapore
  • Moving to another place versus staying and fighting
  • The convergence happening right now
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"This is a time for us to re-envision what kind of policies make sense for our country, because we will have to build and rebuild after this, and even very soon, and on a local scale. So it's not the time to despair and put our hands up. It's time to get to work." – Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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Another World Is Possible

The book of hope for the moment we're in

Most of us are closer to being homeless than we are to being millionaires, with only one healthcare disaster, a lost job, or another calamity sending us to the brink. Yet, we often still buy into the myth of being "self-made" in the US, hustling hard to get to a better place one day.

It’s a promise that hasn’t been delivered for many.

In her book, Natasha travels to nine countries around the world to show how, in those places, instead of promising better futures tomorrow, there is already a better present now.

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"The policies in my book are like the engines of solidarity. These policies bring us together and show us that we're all in this together. In a very material, clear way, they say, 'No, really, we only have each other. We have only our neighborhood school. We have only our health care system that belongs to all of us.' And so we better fight to make it the best possible system." – Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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