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Source books for Parliament Must Die

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

9a. Source books Boyle M. Drinking Molotov Cocktails With Ghandi. Permanent Publications. 2015 Boyle M. The Moneyless Manifesto, Live Well,[…]

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Endpiece

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8f. Endpiece I started ‘Parliament Must Die‘ with a discussion of the purpose of humans. To my mind human beings[…]

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Community Engagement

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8e. Community Engagement “What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over[…]

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What is Real Education?

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8d. Real Education As I wrote earlier, many of our educational institutions have become control devices to instill economic objectives[…]

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Gift Economies

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8c. Gift Economies Gift economies confirm the addage ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’[…]

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New Currencies

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8b. New Currencies “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that[…]

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Making the New

February 20, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

8a. MAKING THE NEW “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the[…]

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Healing Wetiko

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7l. Healing Wetiko Eckart Tolle believes: “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic[…]

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Direct Action, Protest, Lobbying and Non Compliance

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

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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Resistance Art 3

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7j. Resistance Art 3 3. Guerilla gardening: Seedbomb Christmas From ‘The Anarchists Garden’. When it came to making Christmas presents[…]

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Art Resistance 2

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7i. Art Resistance 2 2. Make a Kayapo Headdress I am so unhappy at the way that the exigencies of[…]

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Resistance Art 1

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

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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Art Resistance

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7g. Art Resistance I took a degree level course in ‘Art and Design in a Social Context’ at Dartington College[…]

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Language meta model

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

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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Resistance: Intellectual self-defence

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

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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Being in the moment

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7e. Being in the moment Our government, and increasing ourselves, sometimes seem to exist to just to service the national[…]

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Group Actions to Detach from the system

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7d. Interpersonal and Group Actions to Detach from the system barter or exchange goods, shop in locally owned stores or[…]

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Personal Actions to Detach from the System

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7c. Personal Actions to Detach from the System Below are actions you might take to help detach yourself: spend time[…]

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All Our Actions Are Political

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7b. Taking a dump is a Political Act Every single thing we do has consequences and these have political ramifications.[…]

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Resistance is Fertile

February 19, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

7a. RESISTANCE IS FERTILE “The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas,[…]

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Shifting Democracy: Phase Transition

February 18, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

6h. Phase Transition From Jeremy Lent: “In the very darkness of the times ahead, there is reason for hope that[…]

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Shifting Democracy: Anarchy is preferable

February 18, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

6g. Anarchy is preferable “We are in a race against time – against mass species extinction, increasing inequality, ecological collapse,[…]

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Shifting Democracy: The Brexit Referendum

February 18, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

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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Shifting Democracy to Participatory

February 18, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

6e. Participatory Democracy “Are we building in service of the people and the community, deeply rooted in social values and[…]

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Shifting Democracy to Random

February 18, 2020 simonthescribe scribings

6d. Random Democracy I include a process of democracy here called ‘Sortition’ as it illuminates one of the present problems[…]

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