b'Movement vs. industry. Citizen action vs. fund management. Saying no in the name of fund arithmetic vs. saying yes to putting our hands into the soil of the local economy. It feels to me, as we consider new approaches to finance, that there is a particular need to encourage and protect grassroots engagement. The buy and sell decisions of investors pull certain levers. But the current predica-ment calls for more than that. It calls for activism and humanism. Activism shines light on wounds. Humanism heals. We must not become so busy arguing about capitalism and socialism that we forget about humanism.Economic ideologies get us only so far. Going faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global only gets us so far. Humanism is the compass we need for the next stage of our journey. By humanism, I mean the cultural context that allows us to nurture, even in the face of cacophony and chaos, a robust sense of self-worth, so that we may develop widening relationships of purposeful engagement. Financialization must finally give way to a new wave of humanism. As much as wed like to outsource that which needs doing to intermediaries fiduciaries, executives, politicians, retailerswe sense that what we need most cannot be found online, at the supermarket, at the ballot box or in a new financial sector. 11'