Source books for Parliament Must Die
9a. Source books Boyle M. Drinking Molotov Cocktails With Ghandi. Permanent Publications. 2015 Boyle M. The Moneyless Manifesto, Live Well,[…]
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Community Engagement
8e. Community Engagement “What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over[…]
Read moreWhat is Real Education?
8d. Real Education As I wrote earlier, many of our educational institutions have become control devices to instill economic objectives[…]
Read moreGift Economies
8c. Gift Economies Gift economies confirm the addage ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’[…]
Read moreNew Currencies
8b. New Currencies “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that[…]
Read moreMaking the New
8a. MAKING THE NEW “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the[…]
Read moreHealing Wetiko
7l. Healing Wetiko Eckart Tolle believes: “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic[…]
Read moreDirect Action, Protest, Lobbying and Non Compliance
7k. Direct Action and Protest Protesting is a well-established form of resistance and the advent of social media has helped[…]
Read moreResistance Art 3
7j. Resistance Art 3 3. Guerilla gardening: Seedbomb Christmas From ‘The Anarchists Garden’. When it came to making Christmas presents[…]
Read moreArt Resistance 2
7i. Art Resistance 2 2. Make a Kayapo Headdress I am so unhappy at the way that the exigencies of[…]
Read moreResistance Art 1
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[…]
Read moreLanguage meta model
7fi. Language meta model Joseph O’Connor and John Seymour take the deconstruction of language even further in their book ‘Introducing[…]
Read moreResistance: Intellectual self-defence
7f. Forms of Resistance and Protest Intellectual self-defense is a useful personal attribute in an Age of Insanity. There are[…]
Read moreBeing in the moment
7e. Being in the moment Our government, and increasing ourselves, sometimes seem to exist to just to service the national[…]
Read moreGroup Actions to Detach from the system
7d. Interpersonal and Group Actions to Detach from the system barter or exchange goods, shop in locally owned stores or[…]
Read morePersonal Actions to Detach from the System
7c. Personal Actions to Detach from the System We are seeing systemic breakdown all over the world as nature becomes[…]
Read moreAll Our Actions Are Political
7b. Taking a dump is a Political Act Every single thing we do has consequences and these have political ramifications.[…]
Read moreResistance is Fertile
7a. RESISTANCE IS FERTILE “The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas,[…]
Read moreShifting Democracy: Phase Transition
6h. Phase Transition From Jeremy Lent: “In the very darkness of the times ahead, there is reason for hope that[…]
Read moreShifting Democracy: Anarchy is preferable
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.[…]
Read moreShifting Democracy to Participatory
6e. Participatory Democracy “Are we building in service of the people and the community, deeply rooted in social values and[…]
Read moreShifting Democracy to Random
6d. Random Democracy I include a process of democracy here called ‘Sortition’ as it illuminates one of the present problems[…]
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