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This year was a particularly good year for growing additional food. Where I live on the edge of Bodmin Moor,[…]
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9a. Source books Boyle M. Drinking Molotov Cocktails With Ghandi. Permanent Publications. 2015 Boyle M. The Moneyless Manifesto, Live Well,[…]
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8f. Endpiece I started ‘Not In My Name‘ with a discussion of the purpose of humans. To my mind human[…]
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8c. Gift Economies Gift economies confirm the addage ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’[…]
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8b. New Currencies “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that[…]
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8a. MAKING THE NEW “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the[…]
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7l. Healing Wetiko Eckart Tolle believes: “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic[…]
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7k. Direct Action and Protest Protesting is a well-established form of resistance and the advent of social media has helped[…]
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7j. Resistance Art 3 3. Guerilla gardening: Seedbomb Christmas From ‘The Anarchists Garden’. When it came to making Christmas presents[…]
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7i. Art Resistance 2 2. Make a Kayapo Headdress I am so unhappy at the way that the exigencies of[…]
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7h. Resistance art 1 1. Re-labelling: This product kills bees With a long, cold winter in the UK this year,[…]
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7g. Art Resistance I took a degree level course in ‘Art and Design in a Social Context’ at Dartington College[…]
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7fi. Language meta model Joseph O’Connor and John Seymour take the deconstruction of language even further in their book ‘Introducing[…]
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7f. Forms of Resistance and Protest Intellectual self-defense is a useful personal attribute in an Age of Insanity. There are[…]
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7e. Being in the moment Our government, and increasing ourselves, sometimes seem to exist to just to service the national[…]
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7d. Interpersonal and Group Actions to Detach from the system barter or exchange goods, shop in locally owned stores or[…]
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7c. Personal Actions to Detach from the System Below are actions you might take to help detach yourself from what[…]
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7b. Taking a Shit is a Political Act Every single thing we do has political ramifications. Sorry to get all[…]
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7a. RESISTANCE IS FERTILE “The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas,[…]
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6h. Phase Transition From Jeremy Lent: “In the very darkness of the times ahead, there is reason for hope that[…]
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6g. Anarchy is preferable “We are in a race against time – against mass species extinction, increasing inequality, ecological collapse,[…]
Read moreShifting Democracy: The Brexit Referendum
6f. The Brexit Referendum Since the Brexit referendum/farce is an example of direct participatory democracy in action, its worth investigating.[…]
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