A better way
Social activism, permaculture, resiliency, inclusivity and other keys to a better way of living
A better way
micro-networks (also known as mini-networks, clandestine cell systems, small-world networks, and affinity groups). Here’s the big secret nobody tells you: saving a country doesn’t start with a million people on the National Mall. It starts with two or three people sitting at a kitchen table, or trading texts, or meeting on a city street. That’s it.... See more
The Revolution Will Be Small (And Everywhere)
To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
The best way to resist a monolithic institution or corporation is not with a monolithic movement but with multiplicity itself.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
guerrilla gardening is a way that people can take back not only their present, but also their future – even as it seems under dire threat from an economic and social system apparently hellbent on human self-eradication.
Damien Gayle • ‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
Activism encompasses all the ways we show up for justice. It can take a multitude of shapes, depending on a person’s skills, interests, and capacity. An activist might conduct research, canvass, fundraise, or attend marches or meetings regularly, or they may simply practice a skill in their own home, such as art making, in the service of a cause or
... See moreKelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
hospicing, which recognizes the eventual inevitable end of modernity’s fundamentally unethical and unsustainable institutions, but sees the necessity of enabling a “good” death through which important lessons are processed.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
The author Starhawk has come up with a very helpful way to understand power. She writes about three different kinds of power: power over, power with and power from within. The last two of these are the twin engines that drive all social change movements: people working together and believing in themselves.
Power Over -We’re all very familiar with... See more
Power Over -We’re all very familiar with... See more
The Three Types of Power | Access Press
Power forms
We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations... See more