#commongood — Public Fediverse posts

Inspiration vom #SustainableEconomySummit! 🚀

Es war großartig zu sehen, wie prägend die Frauen aus unserem Netzwerk die Diskussionen in Berlin mitgestaltet haben. Mit ihrer Expertise und ihrem Blick für echte Transformation machen sie den Summit zu einem wichtigen Impulsgeber für das Gemeinwohl. 🌱✨

Ein starkes Signal für eine Wirtschaft, die Kooperation und Zukunftswert vereint.

#SES26 #GWÖ #WirtschaftNeuDenken #CommonGood #Berlin

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In the future world the misuse of power, as implied in the term “power politics,” must not be a controlling factor in international relations. That is the heart of the principles to which we have subscribed. We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics. But in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #commongood #democracy #diplomacy #foreignaffairs #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalcommunity #internationalorder #internationalrelations #military #power #powerpolitics #responsibility

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In the future world the misuse of power, as implied in the term “power politics,” must not be a controlling factor in international relations. That is the heart of the principles to which we have subscribed. We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics. But in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #commongood #democracy #diplomacy #foreignaffairs #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalcommunity #internationalorder #internationalrelations #military #power #powerpolitics #responsibility

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In the future world the misuse of power, as implied in the term “power politics,” must not be a controlling factor in international relations. That is the heart of the principles to which we have subscribed. We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics. But in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #commongood #democracy #diplomacy #foreignaffairs #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalcommunity #internationalorder #internationalrelations #military #power #powerpolitics #responsibility

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In the future world the misuse of power, as implied in the term “power politics,” must not be a controlling factor in international relations. That is the heart of the principles to which we have subscribed. We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics. But in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #commongood #democracy #diplomacy #foreignaffairs #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalcommunity #internationalorder #internationalrelations #military #power #powerpolitics #responsibility

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In the future world the misuse of power, as implied in the term “power politics,” must not be a controlling factor in international relations. That is the heart of the principles to which we have subscribed. We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics. But in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #commongood #democracy #diplomacy #foreignaffairs #foreignrelations #internationalaffairs #internationalcommunity #internationalorder #internationalrelations #military #power #powerpolitics #responsibility

"It’s not so much that there’s 50-something percent of the country that is committed to Trumpism. But there’s just a huge amount of the country that is not doing well—and I mean that in an emotional way, I mean that in a political way, civically."

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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"If we don’t take seriously some of these more underlying problems—that we are a deeply isolated and lonely and distrustful country that is focused on material wellbeing and status and is more dislocated and civically apathetic than maybe we’ve ever been—we’re going to get more Trumps, because that’s just fertile breeding ground for people like him."

~ Alan Elrod

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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https://newrepublic.com/article/208976/transcript-trump-america-deeply-unwell-it-time-say

The Hemorrh Age

We live now
in the Hemorrh Age,

not the age of honest wounds
tended by trembling hands,
not the age of scars
that speak of healing,
but the age of the open vein,
the praised rupture,
the sanctified split.

Everything is torn
and taught to remain torn.

The old ligaments of neighborliness,
frayed.
The sinews of patience,
snapped.
The small capillaries of mercy
burst one by one
beneath the pressure
of opinion, spectacle, grievance, noise.

We are leaking.

Trust runs into the street.
Language pools beneath the door.
Truth is carried away
on a thousand little red channels
no one bothers to close.

And everywhere
the merchants of division
move among us
with clean white gloves,
smiling,
holding their polished instruments,
whispering that this incision
is necessary,
that this cut is clarity,
that this tearing apart
is what it means
to be awake.

They call hemorrhage conviction.
They call hatred discernment.
They call contempt wisdom.
They call cruelty a kind
of courage.

And we, half-dizzy,
half-devout,
watching our common life
soak through the bandages,
mistake the spreading stain
for a flag.

Even the holy things
are not spared.

Altars become platforms.
Prayer becomes signal.
Prophets are drafted
into factions.
The wounds of the world
are trimmed and displayed
for effect.
Compassion is made to perform
beneath bright lights
until it no longer knows
how to touch a body
without first finding a camera.

How strange,
that a people can perish
not by a single blow
but by endless bleeding.
Not by invasion
but by laceration from within.
Not by silence
but by the shriek
of everyone opening
everyone else.

We have become
students of severing.
Apprentices of fracture.
Curators of the unsutured.

Every difference
a knife.
Every slight
a blade returned.
Every memory
reopened.
Every sorrow
milked for more.

No one asks now
how to heal a wound.
Only how to name it,
frame it,
share it,
weaponize it,
keep it wet.

And still—
still somewhere beneath
this failing body,
beneath the fevered rhetoric,
beneath the hot blush
of tribal wrath,
some quiet stubborn tissue
tries to knit.

A hand reaches.
A voice lowers.
A stranger refuses
the sweet narcotic
of contempt.
Someone binds what they did not tear.
Someone stays near
what others abandoned.
Someone chooses
not victory,
but mending.

Perhaps that is how
an age survives itself.

Not by denying blood.
Not by pretending
there was never injury.
But by kneeling at last
beside the opened body
and saying:

Enough.

Let the wound close.
Let the pressure ease.
Let mercy return
to the smallest vessels.
Let the torn muscle remember
its first design.
Let us become again
something more than our bleeding.

For if this is
the Hemorrh Age,
then let there also rise
against it
the tender and stubborn saints
of suturing,

the keepers of bandages,
the washers of torn flesh,
the enemies of spectacle,
the last believers
that a body
still can heal.

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."

Barbara Jordan

#quoteoftheday #NationBuilding #CommonGood #Responsibility #InItTogether

Have you seen any women or non-binary people start a war lately.

https://meiert.com/blog/moratorium/

#men #war #commongood

Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit - in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing
his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. - Garrett Hardin

#tradgedyofthecommons #climatecrisis #commongood #hangtogetherorhangseparately

#event
#Book presentation: A EMERGÊNCIA DAS SOCIEDADES DE COMUNS (THE EMERGENCE OF COMMONS SOCIETIES)
by Marco de Abreu
📅March 14
🕑4pm to 6pm
📍Cave Cultural @ Rizoma, R. José Estêvão 4, #Lisbon
👥Open to the public

A work describing the author's journey towards Societies of Commons, introducing maps for exploring Regenerative Societies and Societies of Commons, and proposes peaceful, transformative social innovation for Portugal.

#MarcodeAbreu #EcoSystem #Collaboration #Regeneration #CommonGood

Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism, A time of reproductive unrest, Moore M, 2023,

"This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water...As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy."
>>
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

A time of reproductive unrest, Madelaine Moore
"Drawing on the rich history of social reproduction theory (SRT), the book situates struggles over water within an account of capitalism that emphasises the continuing relevance of expropriation...Via an engagement with the Irish water charges protests and resistance to unconventional gas in Australia, the work explores the tension between life-making and profit-making that defines the new water commodity frontier. "
>>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526165992
#water #WaterGrabbing #extractivism #contestation #SocialReproduction #ReproductiveUnrest #SRT #CommodificationOfNature #CommonGood #biodiversity #Australia #drought #MDB #PE #book

Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism, A time of reproductive unrest, Moore M, 2023,

"This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water...As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy."
>>
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

A time of reproductive unrest, Madelaine Moore
"Drawing on the rich history of social reproduction theory (SRT), the book situates struggles over water within an account of capitalism that emphasises the continuing relevance of expropriation...Via an engagement with the Irish water charges protests and resistance to unconventional gas in Australia, the work explores the tension between life-making and profit-making that defines the new water commodity frontier. "
>>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526165992
#water #WaterGrabbing #extractivism #contestation #SocialReproduction #ReproductiveUnrest #SRT #CommodificationOfNature #CommonGood #biodiversity #Australia #drought #MDB #PE #book

Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism, A time of reproductive unrest, Moore M, 2023,

"This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water...As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy."
>>
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

A time of reproductive unrest, Madelaine Moore
"Drawing on the rich history of social reproduction theory (SRT), the book situates struggles over water within an account of capitalism that emphasises the continuing relevance of expropriation...Via an engagement with the Irish water charges protests and resistance to unconventional gas in Australia, the work explores the tension between life-making and profit-making that defines the new water commodity frontier. "
>>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526165992
#water #WaterGrabbing #extractivism #contestation #SocialReproduction #ReproductiveUnrest #SRT #CommodificationOfNature #CommonGood #biodiversity #Australia #drought #MDB #PE #book

Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism, A time of reproductive unrest, Moore M, 2023,

"This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water...As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy."
>>
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

A time of reproductive unrest, Madelaine Moore
"Drawing on the rich history of social reproduction theory (SRT), the book situates struggles over water within an account of capitalism that emphasises the continuing relevance of expropriation...Via an engagement with the Irish water charges protests and resistance to unconventional gas in Australia, the work explores the tension between life-making and profit-making that defines the new water commodity frontier. "
>>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526165992
#water #WaterGrabbing #extractivism #contestation #SocialReproduction #ReproductiveUnrest #SRT #CommodificationOfNature #CommonGood #biodiversity #Australia #drought #MDB #PE #book

Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism, A time of reproductive unrest, Moore M, 2023,

"This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water...As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy."
>>
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

A time of reproductive unrest, Madelaine Moore
"Drawing on the rich history of social reproduction theory (SRT), the book situates struggles over water within an account of capitalism that emphasises the continuing relevance of expropriation...Via an engagement with the Irish water charges protests and resistance to unconventional gas in Australia, the work explores the tension between life-making and profit-making that defines the new water commodity frontier. "
>>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526165992
#water #WaterGrabbing #extractivism #contestation #SocialReproduction #ReproductiveUnrest #SRT #CommodificationOfNature #CommonGood #biodiversity #Australia #drought #MDB #PE #book

@stancarey @ploum @Tupp_ed

A lovely read, beautifully written, reminding us that “the European Web… conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits.” 🙂
Redefining ‘success’ as contributing to the commons (copyleft) as opposed to privatising:
“Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

“The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.”
🙏🏻 so much, for writing this, for sharing it 😁

#copyleft #Commons #commonGood #success #redefiningSuccess #EuropeanWeb #trueHeroes #contributors #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

A quotation from John Adams

Every Man must seriously set himself to root out his Passions, Prejudices and Attachments, and to get the better of his private Interest. The only reputable Principle and Doctrine must be that all Things must give Way to the public.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis Warren

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81374/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #commongood #commoninterest #community #democracy #mutuality #privateinterest #publicgood #publicservice #republic #selfcontrol #selfdenial #selfinterest #selfmastery #selfpolicing #selfrespect #selfsacrifice #society

A quotation from John Adams

The Spirit of Commerce, Madam, which even insinuates itself into Families, and influences holy Matrimony, and thereby corrupts the Morals of Families as well as destroys their Happiness, it is much to be feared is incompatible with that purity of Heart, and Greatness of soul which is necessary for an happy Republic.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis Warren

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81328/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #business #civicvirtue #commerce #democracy #gain #interest #profit #transaction #commongood #publicgood #republic #corruption

A quotation from John Adams

Public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics. There must be a possitive Passion for the public good, the public Interest, Honour, Power, and Glory, established in the Minds of the People, or there can be no Republican Government, nor any real Liberty. And this public Passion must be Superiour to all private Passions. Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be happy to sacrifice their private Pleasures, Passions, and Interests, nay their private Friendships and dearest Connections, when they Stand in Competition with the Rights of society.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis Warren

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/28404/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #citizen #citizenship #civicduty #civicvirtue #commongood #commonwealth #democracy #goodcitizen #politician #publicgood #publicvirtue #republic #virtue

Art moves people and touches their hearts. Politics aims to improve people’s lives.

Artists try to connect with others and make the world better through aesthetics and truth.

Politicians, in the true sense of the word, work for the common good and want to improve the world as well.

#Art
#Politics
#ArtAndPolitics
#Democracy
#Society
#Culture
#Philosophy
#PoliticalArt
#CommonGood

The #PuertoRico #SocialSolidarityNetwork #ESSPR is a platform that connects people and organizations to promote and foster the social #solidarityeconomy. The network emerged after a series of economical disasters and from the #cooperative and #communitydevelopment movements to influence economic transformation for a sustainable, integral, human development for the #commongood.

The Puerto Rico Social Solidarity Economy Network | Grassroots Economic Organizing https://geo.coop/articles/puerto-rico-social-solidarity-economy-network

Facing continual news of the collapse of planetary systems & #democracy, w/ billionaires controlling the #media, we need #innerstrength & #commitment to put the #commongood, #community, #conscience, #truth & #justice, & the #health of #MotherEarth & future generations 1st. https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Facing continual news of the collapse of planetary systems & #democracy, w/ billionaires controlling the #media, we need #innerstrength & #commitment to put the #commongood, #community, #conscience, #truth & #justice, & the #health of #MotherEarth & future generations 1st. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

A call for #work on #OpenSource to be recognised as #volunteering for the #commonGood – of equal rank as #volunteer work for associations, youth work or ambulance service.

➡️ https://www.openpetition.de/!sywhp

#openSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Germany #EU #Europe #europeanUnion #digitalSovereignty #Petition #IT #Technology #Software

Solidarity seems like a noble goal, but it's specious at best. When rallying for a cause, we want solidarity – for others to join – but what if we are among the others? #Solidarity comes at the expense of self – fine if you are already committed. Otherwise, not so much.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/03/on-the-strange-politics-of-solidarity/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#solidarity #ethics #virtue #commongood #teaching #indotrination #normativity #institution #philosophy #psychology #virtue #dogma #flourishing #boundaries #goodandevil #totalitarianism #morals #principles

Blame the #shutdown on #citizens who prefer #politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the #commongood

https://theconversation.com/blame-the-shutdown-on-citizens-who-prefer-politicians-to-vanquish-their-opponents-rather-than-to-work-for-the-common-good-269041

Philosophical Influences to novaTopFlex

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/philosophical-influences-to-novatopflex/

A quotation from Montesquieu

A kingdom is not brought nearer to ruin by the tyranny of the sovereign than is a republic by indifference to the common welfare.
 
[La tyrannie d’un prince ne met pas un État plus près de sa ruine que l’indifférence pour le bien commun n’y met une république.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline [Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence], ch. 4 (1734, 1748 ed.) [tr. Baker (1882)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/2897/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #apathy #commongood #commonwealth #democracy #destruction #generalwelfare #indifference #republic #ruin

"They don’t trust doctors and other medical experts when their very lives and that of their children are at stake. Many Americans would literally rather die than to trust.

They have been led down this path by a man who feeds their paranoia because it’s all he knows. It’s no wonder to me that Donald Trump is pursuing both a political and economic agenda of distrust."

#Americans #solidarity #trust #CommonGood #individualism #SocialFragmentation #Trump
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"A large percentage of Americans don’t trust institutions unless their people control them, they don’t trust experts or the media or even basic facts unless they tell them what they already believe, and they don’t trust the Constitution unless it privileges them. They don’t trust people who are different from them, but they don’t even trust their family members if they aren’t part of their political tribe."

#Americans #solidarity #trust #CommonGood #individualism #SocialFragmentation #MAGA
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"America itself is rapidly unraveling as functioning society. We’ve lost an awful lot in the last 10 years (and the trends lines no doubt began long before the rise of Trump), but mostly what we’ve lost is trust."

~ Holly Berkley Fletcher

#Americans #solidarity #trust #CommonGood #individualism #SocialFragmentation
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/trust

Privacy vs Safety: Immigration Tracking Debate Our movements and vehicles being tracked by default is a concerning issue. We discuss the balance between privacy and public safety, focusing on immigration and enforcement. Join us as we examine these crucial aspects. #PrivacyMatters #PublicSafety #Immigration #DataPrivacy #LicensePlateReaders #Surveillance #PolicyDebate #LegalRights #CommonGood #DataSecurityhttps://https://ift.tt/1Q6TyDz