such as agreeing that decisions that break down around identity lines (for example, most of the group’s women or currently undocumented people oppose a certain proposal) will be reevaluated to assess a proposal’s alignment with the group’s core principles.

Chart 1. Characteristics of Mutual Aid vs. Charity

Chart 5. Basic Steps to Consensus Decision-Making

When disasters emerge, governments and corporations quickly move to downplay them, hoping to get back to the status quo of extraction and profit-making as soon as possible, to take credit for having resolved them, and to silence demands for relief.

we get more when we demand more

The charity model encourages us to feel good about ourselves by “giving back.”

Some very basic elements of good meeting facilitation worth considering are:

Elite solutions to poverty are always about managing poor people and never about redistributing wealth.

mad mapping from the Icarus Project, and you can find more information in the resource list at the end of this book.)