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  1. Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

    This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]

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  2. Change is Freedom, Change is Life

    We dig. We turn over the old soil, question assumptions, and get honest about what's working, and what isn't. We plant, build in the open, share power, and let go of fear. We grow, not by scaling up, but by spreading out: resilient, diverse and interconnected. That's how we cultivate the commons. You don’t get transformative change by building according to the incentives of the dominant system. A post inspired by rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia as part […]

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  3. Organising in the 21st Century: What’s Beneath the Surface?

    Let’s talk about how we actually organise, in grassroots movements, radical alternatives, and yes, even in the broader currents of #mainstreaming. Like a river system, the real action is happening under the surface in tributaries and the undercurrents that shape how power flows and decisions get made. We can roughly split organising methods into two broad categories:The Horizontals (our grassroots tradition) is often celebrated, but rarely understood in practice. These organising streams […]

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  4. Organiseing the 21st Century

    Published Date 12/23/14 7:52 PM

    Let’s look at how we acturly organise. Grassroots alternative streams (and #mainstreaming river with more complexity) can be split into a number of streams

    * The horizontals

    * The verticals

    In the horizontals the organising is actually pretty opaque – lets look at the tributary’s

    Organic consensus – This is rare and generally fleeting, a working example is the rainbow gathering, generally as the project settles into place organic consensus is […]

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