#directdemocracy — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/afrika/14959/ Botswana: Die älteste Demokratie Afrikas will ein Leuchtturm nach Schweizer Vorbild werden #Article #BeatDemocracy #Botsuana #Botswana #Democracy #DirectDemocracy #EnvironmentalPolitics #HumanRights #InternationalRelations #LawAndOrder #Politics #Politics(general) #ProductionTypeAdaptation #SocialIssues(general) #Society

“No Kings," No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-risk-no-change-the-protest?triedRedirect=true

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains…

#Protest #Vent #NoChange #BeyondProtest #DirectDemocracy #Ignored

So much for believing the government closest to the people governs best.

Republican-led states are ramping up efforts to make citizen-led ballot initiatives harder to pass, with Missouri lawmakers approving a bill to raise the threshold for amending the state constitution—pending voter approval. This trend has accelerated, with at least seven states advancing similar legislation and 148 bills introduced in 15 states this year to weaken direct democracy, according to the Fairness Project. The push comes after progressive wins on abortion rights through ballot measures, which succeeded in 7 out of 10 states since 2022. Will new hurdles stop future reforms? More: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-are-trying-raise-bar-voters-amend-state-constitutions-rcna230717 #ballotmeasures #Missouri #directdemocracy #votingrights #abortion #GOP #statepolitics

So much for believing the government closest to the people governs best.

Republican-led states are ramping up efforts to make citizen-led ballot initiatives harder to pass, with Missouri lawmakers approving a bill to raise the threshold for amending the state constitution—pending voter approval. This trend has accelerated, with at least seven states advancing similar legislation and 148 bills introduced in 15 states this year to weaken direct democracy, according to the Fairness Project. The push comes after progressive wins on abortion rights through ballot measures, which succeeded in 7 out of 10 states since 2022. Will new hurdles stop future reforms? More: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-are-trying-raise-bar-voters-amend-state-constitutions-rcna230717 #ballotmeasures #Missouri #directdemocracy #votingrights #abortion #GOP #statepolitics

https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri

#Politics #DirectDemocracy #Propublica #PulitzerPrize #BallotMeasures #BallotInitiatives #Progressive #USA #America #Law #Justice #Republicans #Democrats #Vote #GerryMandering #MoneyInPolitics #Influence #Majority #Religion #CorporateGreed #Oligarchs #EatTheRich #RedStates #BlueStates #Democracy #States #Voters #Constitution #Florida #Missouri #TheWestIsBest

https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri

#Politics #DirectDemocracy #Propublica #PulitzerPrize #BallotMeasures #BallotInitiatives #Progressive #USA #America #Law #Justice #Republicans #Democrats #Vote #GerryMandering #MoneyInPolitics #Influence #Majority #Religion #CorporateGreed #Oligarchs #EatTheRich #RedStates #BlueStates #Democracy #States #Voters #Constitution #Florida #Missouri #TheWestIsBest

https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri

#Politics #DirectDemocracy #Propublica #PulitzerPrize #BallotMeasures #BallotInitiatives #Progressive #USA #America #Law #Justice #Republicans #Democrats #Vote #GerryMandering #MoneyInPolitics #Influence #Majority #Religion #CorporateGreed #Oligarchs #EatTheRich #RedStates #BlueStates #Democracy #States #Voters #Constitution #Florida #Missouri #TheWestIsBest

https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri

#Politics #DirectDemocracy #Propublica #PulitzerPrize #BallotMeasures #BallotInitiatives #Progressive #USA #America #Law #Justice #Republicans #Democrats #Vote #GerryMandering #MoneyInPolitics #Influence #Majority #Religion #CorporateGreed #Oligarchs #EatTheRich #RedStates #BlueStates #Democracy #States #Voters #Constitution #Florida #Missouri #TheWestIsBest

https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri

#Politics #DirectDemocracy #Propublica #PulitzerPrize #BallotMeasures #BallotInitiatives #Progressive #USA #America #Law #Justice #Republicans #Democrats #Vote #GerryMandering #MoneyInPolitics #Influence #Majority #Religion #CorporateGreed #Oligarchs #EatTheRich #RedStates #BlueStates #Democracy #States #Voters #Constitution #Florida #Missouri #TheWestIsBest

#directaction #directdemocracy #Internationalism
#Italy #LaborMovement #MayDay #May1 #Organize #solidarity #unions #USI

Koreatown Popular Assembly Organized Neighborhood Power To Confront ICE
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-the-koreatown-popular-assembly-organized-neighborhood-power-to-confront-ice/

#directaction #directdemocracy #KoreaTown #KPA #mutualaid
#neighborhoodpower #popularassembly #solidarity

@DionyZack

https://insorgiamo.org/

@collettivofabbricagkn former automotive factory;
workers & community produce #cargobikes and #solarpanels.
The workers unpaid for ten months ask for support of #workerscooperative.

#ecologicaltransition through #directdemocracy, inside every factory.

https://linktr.ee/collettivodifabbrica

REEL News (video about Occupation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_RyEOG_K0

Nowtopia (video about GKN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMu46NcBwas

#labormovement #organize #insorgiamo

@DionyZack

https://insorgiamo.org/

@collettivofabbricagkn former automotive factory;
workers & community produce #cargobikes and #solarpanels.
The workers unpaid for ten months ask for support of #workerscooperative.

#ecologicaltransition through #directdemocracy, inside every factory.

https://linktr.ee/collettivodifabbrica

REEL News (video about Occupation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_RyEOG_K0

Nowtopia (video about GKN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMu46NcBwas

#labormovement #organize #insorgiamo

@DionyZack

https://insorgiamo.org/

@collettivofabbricagkn former automotive factory;
workers & community produce #cargobikes and #solarpanels.
The workers unpaid for ten months ask for support of #workerscooperative.

#ecologicaltransition through #directdemocracy, inside every factory.

https://linktr.ee/collettivodifabbrica

REEL News (video about Occupation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_RyEOG_K0

Nowtopia (video about GKN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMu46NcBwas

#labormovement #organize #insorgiamo

@DionyZack

https://insorgiamo.org/

@collettivofabbricagkn former automotive factory;
workers & community produce #cargobikes and #solarpanels.
The workers unpaid for ten months ask for support of #workerscooperative.

#ecologicaltransition through #directdemocracy, inside every factory.

https://linktr.ee/collettivodifabbrica

REEL News (video about Occupation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_RyEOG_K0

Nowtopia (video about GKN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMu46NcBwas

#labormovement #organize #insorgiamo

@DionyZack

https://insorgiamo.org/

@collettivofabbricagkn former automotive factory;
workers & community produce #cargobikes and #solarpanels.
The workers unpaid for ten months ask for support of #workerscooperative.

#ecologicaltransition through #directdemocracy, inside every factory.

https://linktr.ee/collettivodifabbrica

REEL News (video about Occupation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_RyEOG_K0

Nowtopia (video about GKN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMu46NcBwas

#labormovement #organize #insorgiamo

Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality

The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.

It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/

#anarchism #anarchy #communism #communalism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #democracy #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #nonhierarchy #antihierarchy #horizontalism #horizontality #freeassociation #socialecology #ethics #normativeethics #metaethics

Today on the podcast, @arielkroon talks to Melissa Bowman, cofounder of the group Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard (WRYIMBY) about what a YIMBY group is, what some actions are that it might take, the issues that it might address, and how to start up a YIMBY group in your area, if there’s not one already!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYtPz9B3ZLs

#YIMBY #solarpunk #YesInMyBackYard #UrbanPlanning #Densification #Housing #AffordableHousing #HousingCrisis #HousingCrisisCanada #OntarioHousingCrisis #grassroots #activism #delegatingToCouncil #CityCouncil #MunicipalPolitics #DirectDemocracy @dtkmelissa

mastodon.social booted me off citing "xenophobia and incitement of violence" when I posted a gimped comic critical of israel. please follow me here. I am an anarchocommunist software engineer. check out and contribute to the project I'm building: https://argonsuite.org is a collection of tools for direct democracy.

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Points of Unity template for shared processes and practices (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc

Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.

Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document. For sake of brevity, it can make sense to include the substance of horizontality within other points.

Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations as well as participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.

Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to meet needs of people. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, expropriations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.

Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals (including direct action goals), creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.

For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:

Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.

Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:

Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.

***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.

Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:

Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy as defined above (or alternatively Self-Management), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime. Having three points makes a point of unity for processes and practices easier to agree with, comprehend, and communicate to new people.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/

#Anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #mutualaid #directdemocracy #democracy #federation #federalism #confederalism #directaction #horizontality #horizontalism #freedom #equality #organization