#selfgovernance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #selfgovernance, aggregated by home.social.
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Rights matter — they hold the space for people to act. But there's something rights-language can't reach: the inner condition that determines if people can actually use that space when it opens.
Readiness is that condition. The capacity to see what's moving, to respond to it, to show up for what the moment requires. The structure holds the space. The practice builds the capacity to use it.This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and-money
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Courage is less about bold declarations and more about presence. Showing up to real conversations. Staying engaged through discomfort. Taking responsibility for one’s own regulation instead of waiting for rescue or clarity from elsewhere.
This is how self-government is learned — as a lived practice, built slowly in relationship.
Full reflection for this week here: https://emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-pretending-part-ii
#WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedCapacity #RelationalInfrastructure #SelfGovernance #BenKadel
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Part II picks up where disillusionment leaves off.
When old stories fall away, what’s left isn’t chaos — it’s the work of learning how to stand together. Self-government shows up not as ideology, but as practiced capacity: regulation, discernment, cooperation, and continuity built in small, durable contexts.
This is slower work. And it’s learnable.
Read Part II here:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-pretending-part-ii#WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedAgency #RelationalInfrastructure #CollectiveCapacity #SelfGovernance
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Quote 2 from Yavor Tarinski's new book "Horizons of Direct Democracy":
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It can be suggested that by reconfiguring the architecture of power, direct democracy strives at the greatest possible justice. In this sense it seeks to allow for everyone to participate in deciding on matters up to the point where our choice impinge on others, but from there on, others should have their own self-managing say. This comes to ensure a universal opportunity for every person to take equal responsibility and active part in crafting the path their community is going to take. In short, it seeks to integrate political participation with everyday life.
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Quote 1 from Yavor Tarinski's new book "Horizons of Direct Democracy":
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It is well known that citizenship in Ancient Athens (508-322 BCE) - where the concept is said to have initially emerged - meant something radically different from what we have today. Although the Athenian society of that time was plagued by slavery and patriarchy, with slaves and women being excluded from political life, it nonetheless underwent a revolution that saw the establishment of democracy, or self-management by the citizenry. For the Ancient Athenians such as Aristotle, there was a clear distinction between a democratic system and elections for representatives - the former was based on popular assemblies and sortition, while the latter was viewed as the building block of oligarchy. Although critical of democracy, Aristotle underlines its grassroots character:--A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well off, being in a majority, are in sovereign control of the government, an oligarchy lies in the hands of the rich and better born, those being few.
This understanding of democratic politics as popular self-management continues throughout the ages. Eighteenth-century thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau were well aware of the difference between democracy and representation: for Rousseau, when a government lays in the hands of the whole people, or of a majority of them, then we have a democratic society, while aristocracy or oligarchy is when the government is restructured to a small number of citizens (i.e. representatives). Similar was the stance on the issue of other prominent figures of the period. Thomas Paine, too, made a distinction between representation and democracy, understanding that in its original form the latter stood for a "society governing itself without the aid of secondary means."
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 176 (1955)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/1915/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #action #autonomy #compliance #compulsion #freedom #liberty #selfcontrol #selfgovernance
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Fulfilling #America's Unfinished Promise of Individual #Liberty: A Second #BillofRights
#StetsonUniversity College of Law Research Paper Forthcoming
90 Pages Posted: 13 Nov 2025
W.C. Bunting#Corporate consolidation and the expansion of the #administrative state have created unprecedented concentrations of #power that threaten #democratic #selfgovernance. This Article argues that the solution lies not in novel #constitutional theories
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District of Columbia is suing #Trump, #AttorneyGeneral #Bondi, and others for #unlawfully taking control of the #DC #police under a #statute that only permits limited emergency assistance for #federal purposes. The suit seeks to block the takeover, arguing it exceeds legal authority, #violates the #Constitution, and strips D.C. of its #SelfGovernance https://substack.com/redirect/dffa7306-a784-46d3-9166-5a287150b464 #maga #DOJ #democracy #voting #martiallaw #dictatorship #fascism #nationalguard #fbi #civilliberties
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Our Laws Function as ‘Anti-Democratic’: Legal Expert on How Trump Weaponizes the Constitution
#Zeteo #MehdirHasan #ElieMystal #Culture #Constitution #SelfGovernance #Law #Politics #Project2025 #Trump #TrumpRegime
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More witnesses were in front of the Standing Committee on #Indigenous and Northern Affairs to provide statements on Bill C-53, which recognizes the #selfgovernance of certain #Métis groups.
The issue of Métis #identity in #Ontario was again raised and a warning given.
Identity issues have caused “enormous difficulties in other jurisdictions” and when such issues are flagged “we're called to deal with them.”
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Off to Toronto this weekend for some potentially tense Métis business. Or politics. We'll see. Gettin'er done, though. 💪♾️ 🪶 🏳️🌈
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“What research has Canada done to support this recognition?”
Ontario chiefs confront minister over Métis self-government federal legislation
Minister Marc Miller was in the hot seat when he appeared virtually at the Chiefs of Ontario assembly June 15.
The chiefs said they distrusted legislation that would implement a self-government agreement signed with the Métis Nation of Ontario.
#FirstNations #Métis #cdnpoli #selfgovernance #Ontario #COO #MNO #rights