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  1. Sécurité intérieure et souveraineté commune : le communalisme comme désarmement du dedans

    Si la sécurité extérieure relève d’abord d’un désarmement global ou d’une tutelle de transition, la sécurité intérieure doit revenir au peuple souverain lui-même : la commune. C’est là que se joue l’autonomie concrète, la responsabilité partagée et la capacité à faire société sans État.#Communalism #DirectDemocracy #Commons #SelfGovernance #Autonomy #PoliticalTheory #Degrowth La…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  2. Sécurité intérieure et souveraineté commune : le communalisme comme désarmement du dedans

    Si la sécurité extérieure relève d’abord d’un désarmement global ou d’une tutelle de transition, la sécurité intérieure doit revenir au peuple souverain lui-même : la commune. C’est là que se joue l’autonomie concrète, la responsabilité partagée et la capacité à faire société sans État. #Communalism #DirectDemocracy #Commons #SelfGovernance #Autonomy #PoliticalTheory #Degrowth La…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  3. Sécurité intérieure et souveraineté commune : le communalisme comme désarmement du dedans

    Si la sécurité extérieure relève d’abord d’un désarmement global ou d’une tutelle de transition, la sécurité intérieure doit revenir au peuple souverain lui-même : la commune. C’est là que se joue l’autonomie concrète, la responsabilité partagée et la capacité à faire société sans État. #Communalism #DirectDemocracy #Commons #SelfGovernance #Autonomy #PoliticalTheory #Degrowth La…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  4. @bweller @benroyce @NickSchwanck

    The threat of minoritarianism was offset by the belief that a virtuous, educated people would produce leaders up for the challenge of #SelfGovernance.

    Oh, wait.

  5. @bweller @benroyce @NickSchwanck

    The threat of minoritarianism was offset by the belief that a virtuous, educated people would produce leaders up for the challenge of #SelfGovernance.

    Oh, wait.

  6. When was the last time you felt like your voice truly mattered in how this country is governed? Real self-governance means more than voting every few years. It means citizens actively shaping the rules we live by. The founders trusted us with that power. Do we still trust ourselves? The 1776 is building a National Advisory Panel to help modernize our Constitution through a citizen-driven process. #SelfGovernance #WeThePeople #CivicEngagement

  7. When was the last time you felt like your voice truly mattered in how this country is governed?

    We talk about "We the People" but most Americans feel disconnected from the decisions that shape our lives. Real self-governance means more than voting every few years. It means having a direct say in the fundamental rules by which we live.

    What if we could rebuild that connection between citizens and our founding document?

    #SelfGovernance #WeThePeople #Constitution

  8. What if "We the People" could truly speak with one voice again? Our founders trusted us with self-governance but are our 250-year-old systems keeping pace with modern America's needs? The 1776 believes citizens can draft a renewed Constitution together, nonpartisan and transparent. Join our National Advisory Panel at the1776.org and help shape the conversation. #WeThePeople #CivicEngagement #SelfGovernance

  9. What if "We the People" could truly mean ALL the people? Our Constitution was written by 55 men in 1787. Today, we're 330+ million diverse Americans. Shouldn't our foundational document reflect who we've become as a nation?

    The 1776 believes in the power of citizens to govern themselves. Join our National Advisory Panel and help make self-governance real again.

    the1776.org

    #WeThePeople #SelfGovernance #Constitution

  10. What does "We the People" mean in practice today? Are we truly governing ourselves, or have we become spectators to our own democracy? Real self-governance requires more than voting — it demands active participation in shaping the systems that shape our lives. The 1776 believes Americans are ready to reclaim that responsibility. Join our National Advisory Panel and help modernize our founding charter. #WeThePeople #SelfGovernance #CivicEngagement

  11. What if "We the People" wasn't just the opening of our Constitution, but an active invitation to participate in our democracy today? The founders trusted citizens to govern themselves — do we still trust each other with that responsibility? Real self-governance requires all of us. Join our National Advisory Panel at the1776.org and help shape America's future. #WeThePeople #SelfGovernance #CivicEngagement

  12. 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 @ emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and
    #BenKadel #LifeboatAcademy #SelfGovernance #Permaculture

  13. 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 @ emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and
    #BenKadel #LifeboatAcademy #SelfGovernance #Permaculture

  14. @douginamug

    "What looked like maintaining ditches was actually maintaining an obligation to each other."

    Yup, a really interesting perspective in this essay by #SethFrey. Lots to think about! Thank you for the link!

    #governance #SelfGovernance

  15. @douginamug

    "What looked like maintaining ditches was actually maintaining an obligation to each other."

    Yup, a really interesting perspective in this essay by #SethFrey. Lots to think about! Thank you for the link!

    #governance #SelfGovernance

  16. 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: emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-

    #WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedCapacity #RelationalInfrastructure #SelfGovernance #BenKadel

  17. 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: emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-

    #WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedCapacity #RelationalInfrastructure #SelfGovernance #BenKadel

  18. 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:
    emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-

    #WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedAgency #RelationalInfrastructure #CollectiveCapacity #SelfGovernance

  19. 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:
    emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-

    #WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedAgency #RelationalInfrastructure #CollectiveCapacity #SelfGovernance

  20. Quote 2 from Yavor Tarinski's new book "Horizons of Direct Democracy":

    """
    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.
    """

    Book available at on-our-own-authority-publishin

    #Democracy #DirectDemocracy #SelfGovernance #Tarinski

  21. Quote 1 from Yavor Tarinski's new book "Horizons of Direct Democracy":

    """
    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."
    """

    #Democracy #DirectDemocracy #SelfGovernance #Tarinski

  22. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    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

  23. 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

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  24. 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

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  25. 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 substack.com/redirect/dffa7306 #maga #DOJ #democracy #voting #martiallaw #dictatorship #fascism #nationalguard #fbi #civilliberties

  26. 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 substack.com/redirect/dffa7306 #maga #DOJ #democracy #voting #martiallaw #dictatorship #fascism #nationalguard #fbi #civilliberties

  27. Despite a Boycott Attempt, Tacuro Decides in Favor of Self-Government

    DESPITE ATTEMPTED BOYCOTT, TACURO DECIDES IN FAVOR OF SELFGOVERNMENT TACURO ANTAKUA VICTORY FOR TACURO! THE CHILCHOTA TOWN HALL TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO AND MICHOACÁN TO THE MEDIA THE MEXICAN STATE Indigenous and AfroMexican communities in #Michoacán as of February 27, 2025. K’eri Kunkorhekua Iretecheri, the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán #CSIM, an autonomous and independent council of governments, political parties and religious institutions, made up of traditional authorities from 70 communities, we jointly state the following: The P’urhépecha community of #Tacuro, an ancestral village with hundreds of years of history, located in the Cañada de los Eleven Peoples in the Municipality of #Chilchota, today, gathered in the General Assembly, maximum authority of the primitive peoples, determined with 307 votes in favor and 0 against, to directly manage their resources, to be governed by uses and customs and to selfgovern. This exercise of direct democracy, convened by the civil and communal authorities of Tacuro and protected by the historical, international, constitutional and state right that the indigenous peoples have to exercise their free selfdetermination, is totally relevant and historic, since it was held despite the attempted boycott by the Municipal President of Chilchota Alejandra Ortiz Suárez and his Secretary of the City Council Oskar Pake Gómez, who through a group of inhabitants of Tacuro, mainly employees of the City Council as well as their relatives, took the road CarapanZamora to try to stop the consultation, however, the people of Tacuro woke up, did not pay attention to the provocations and voted in favor of their autonomy. From the four P’urhépecha regions, the Hñahñú or Otomi region, the Matlatzinca or Pirinda region, the Nahua region and the AfroMexican region of #Michoacan, we congratulate the people of Tacuro fraternally and invite all the peoples and communities to undertake a State Day of Struggle in Defense of Autonomy and against President Alejandra Ortiz Suarez and Oskar Pake Gómez, enemies of the indigenous peoples who refuse to recognize their free selfdetermination and autonomy. From this moment, we hold the Municipal President Alejandra Ortiz Suárez and the Secretary of the City Council Oskar Pake Gómez directly responsible for any repression, arbitrary detention or criminalization that may be suffered by the comrades who are demanding selfgovernment. To the peoples and communities members of the CSIM we ask them carefully and respectfully to prepare to attend the call to the State Day of Struggle in Defense of Autonomy that we are about to begin. The communities of the Cañada de los Eleven Peoples are not alone, it is time to collectively actualize. We demand that the City of Chichota approve the transfer of resources to the community of Tacuro! TERUNHASKUA K’OIA, ECHERI KA JURAMUKUKUKUKUKUU IAMENTU IRETECHANI JUSTICE, TERRITORY AND AUTONOMY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUPREME INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF MICHOACÁN #CSIM

    abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=

    #antiColonialism #Autonomy #Chilchota #CSIM #indigenousStruggle #mexico #MICHOACAN #SelfGovernance #Tacuro

  28. A quotation from Goethe

    Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
     
    [Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren.]

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
    Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), “Life and Characters,” #225]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/goethe-johann/1658/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #freedom #government #liberty #selfcontrol #selfgovernance

  29. We have got to stop dignifying these hypocrites with the moniker "Conservative"!
    Nothing these people have done over the past 60 years, remotely fits the definition of social conservative unless you mean conserving a class hierarch that depends on shredding the US Constitution, a return to gerrymandering the vote, a return to state-sponsored eugenics and racialization, a return to state policing of sexuality and gender essentialism, rule by those of great wealth instead of Democracy, government of and by common folk.
    #Culture #SelfGovernance #Politics #Economics #Democracy #Authoritarian #Capitalism #TrumpRegime #Project2025

  30. We have got to stop dignifying these hypocrites with the moniker "Conservative"!
    Nothing these people have done over the past 60 years, remotely fits the definition of social conservative unless you mean conserving a class hierarch that depends on shredding the US Constitution, a return to gerrymandering the vote, a return to state-sponsored eugenics and racialization, a return to state policing of sexuality and gender essentialism, rule by those of great wealth instead of Democracy, government of and by common folk.
    #Culture #SelfGovernance #Politics #Economics #Democracy #Authoritarian #Capitalism #TrumpRegime #Project2025

  31. Vote for the ratification of the K'ómoks Treaty and K'ómoks Constitution on March 8, 2025. Enrolment is open until vote day to all K'ómoks members and eligibile members. Learn more here: komoks.ca/

    This is a historic moment and I wish prosperity and success to the K'ómoks First Nation. Well done! 😊

    #Komoks #SelfGovernance #Indigenous

  32. The #NapsterGeneration lived through 2000 and 2004 #election cycles.

    Important for land-owning families to maintain continuous property lines.

    Municipal, state and federal jurisdiction have autonomy of #American #SelfGovernance.

  33. The #NapsterGeneration lived through 2000 and 2004 #election cycles.

    Important for land-owning families to maintain continuous property lines.

    Municipal, state and federal jurisdiction have autonomy of #American #SelfGovernance.

  34. The #NapsterGeneration lived through 2000 and 2004 #election cycles.

    Important for land-owning families to maintain continuous property lines.

    Municipal, state and federal jurisdiction have autonomy of #American #SelfGovernance.

  35. The #NapsterGeneration lived through 2000 and 2004 #election cycles.

    Important for land-owning families to maintain continuous property lines.

    Municipal, state and federal jurisdiction have autonomy of #American #SelfGovernance.

  36. The #NapsterGeneration lived through 2000 and 2004 #election cycles.

    Important for land-owning families to maintain continuous property lines.

    Municipal, state and federal jurisdiction have autonomy of #American #SelfGovernance.