Nonviolent Anarconsensual DemocracyIt's about community, and about
freedom.
It's about what we do, and why we do it. It's about what's real, and what we make of that reality. It's about being in the moment, and root/systemic causes. (strategic responses) ----------- ?? It's about healing what's messed up, and creative wonderfulness from a baseline of plenty. |
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NonviolenceAssume
that your "enemy" can be moved by the truth if it is, powerfully,
persistently
and compassionately told and acted upon. spirit is to do things *with* others holding them as human even if you disagree with what they are doing at the moment. As much about passive/non-physical violence as active/physical violence. blog "A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the
opposite of peace." nonviolent precursor to American Revolution "It is more important to root out the violence latent in the
structure
of society than to make peace when open violence breaks out." http://del.icio.us/tag/nonviolence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?NonViolence"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our
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AnarchyNo one in governance, freedom for all. freedom quote? Rule by no one - everyone is free, because no one has power over anyone else. Some anarchists' do not believe that large-scale structures (e.g. states, much less global structures) can be built without domination structures, and advocate down-shifts to local, perhaps all the way to . 1) There usually are power relationships whether you want them or not, so better to be transparent with them. (cf first part of Tyranny of Structurelessness) 2) If you don't create/participate in larger structures, you have less influence on the development of other, perhaps large/powerful neighbors. What stops some developing nasty attitudes/tech and strong-arming small groups? So, an innoculation approach, admitted to be laid open to the risk that the structures that we set up could turn on anarchy over time, building up with bureaucracy, dead rule-making, corruption, coercion Power-over vs. power-under http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?AnArchy http://del.icio.us/tag/anarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?AnArchyTo the degree violence Instead, we have to learn to get along with the people around us. Some people imagine this is only possible below a certain scale of social organization. , or requiring any people to have inordinately more power than others. A lot of it is just relalizing the extent to which we already are free. And then we have to cope with this: "Everything that lives, does so under the categorical
condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else..." http:// Blog |
ConsensusThe spirit is for people to not unduly impact others without their consent. An approach to deciding/acting together in which any objection
is taken most seriously - as an opportunity to improve. Law without coercion hovering behind it as punishment or enforcement, "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one
person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified
in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be
justified in silencing mankind." Schutt matls? http://del.icio.us/tag/consensus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?ConSensus
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DemocracySubstantial, meaningful participation of the people in all
aspects of governance - Whether directly or with representation and/or federalism, the spirit is, Rule of the people. It could be consensus and a mix of voluntary and random representation to temporary or long-term formal rule-making and consultative bodies. A nonviolent, anarchic society that operated by consensus would be deeply democratic. "The deliberative sense of the community should govern." NCDD Churchill quote, my response "I had never thought of democracy as a daily practice." http://del.icio.us/tag/democracy http://del.icio.us/tag/deliberation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberation http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?DemoCracyhttp://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?DeliberaTion Greece, U.S., Native Americans |
| What to do? learn/practice/experiment/share Scale Individual - Focusing, NVC, Group - Facilitation, leaderful, Global - harder- PDCs? mindful of reactivity, and against or judgemental thinking. |
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| Economics "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice that make philanthropy necessary." --MartinLutherKingJr "Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." --Francis Bacon "Money is a concretization of a broken model of value." --JohnAbbe "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem" --John Paul Getty "An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor." --St. Augustine "I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin." --Malcolm X "The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains." --Paul Simon There are people who identify as anarchist but believe in capitalitism, or at least that property rights should be held up (probably contracts too?). |
Power Personal-to-global/universal Currencies of power |
Deliberative/Creative Councils |
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