Resilience - Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule
Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 5:57am
I just found this series of videos that I think the Resilience Group will find VERY interesting. It's about The Community Rights Movement.
One
[video:https://youtu.be/8Prylnj4NQ8]
Two
[video:https://youtu.be/Smu0x05qs58]
Three
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Morning Martha and TY. This is exactly what local resilience is
about. Now back to viewing the other two.
Folks, it's the 40th anniversary of the Institute For Local Self-Reliance: https://ilsr.org/
It's a great resource.
Enjoy your day,
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Hmmm. That's what my Township decided.
The Township of Dryden in Tompkins County NY was the first in NY to find a legal remedy to ban fracking within its borders. It upheld through three state court levels. And it was accomplished by a Town attorney and a Town Board (mostly Democrats) by desire of at least the most vocal of Township residents.
I should really get involved in Town government, at least on one of the advisory boards. I have talked with folks at several levels already.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Morning riverlover, I hope you have a great day :=) You'd be
great on town government. If you have a heart for it, you could make a real difference. This is so cool. Best wishes,
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Good to know
first hand that this works! Thanks for the input. This may just be a game changer. Or at least one weapon to use against TPTB.
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Martha, I just finished the videos. It's great stuff: jam-packed
with success stories that illustrate how local communities defended themselves from corporate raiders. I think we could link to their site in AB's "forthcoming - hopefully" pinned Resilience Library.
Could I ask you two favour? Could you add the signifier word "Resilience:" before the start of your title?
If you would add the tag "resilience", we'd be able to find it better next week, for example.
(Soon we hope to have a banner we'll be able to add to resilience posts :=)
I'll do the same with my posts and we'll ask other Resilience writers to do the same. Don't mind me; I'm making it up as we go along :=)
Thanks for this. I'll dig into the mac's guts to find my stuff on this topic also. Enjoy your day my friend,
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Of course!
I started to, but then thought I should wait...but why not! Onward and Upward!
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TY Martha :=) Upward and Onward - w00t!
Thank you also for inspiring me this morning with this. My calendar this morning says "rescue democratic socialism series." Yikes. But I started on Part 3 after watching the 3 videos and gabonk (I create words :=), it all fell into place. The first two essays were academic, dry as dust, and booooooring. But it's real easy to see Schumacher's application to local communities' resilience. Now, hopefully, I can offer it tomorrow with more better applicability. If so, then I can go back and rescue the first two essays.
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Here is the link to the Community Environmental Legal Defense
Fund - http://celdf.org/ The videos come from one of their programmes.
Some years ago, I learned of them through their Democracy School:
http://celdf.org/how-we-work/education/democracy-school/
Now this is also very cool. We'll write it up one fine day :=)
Ty, Martha, for this local resilience essay,
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This is precisely what has to happen
in the United States in every community in every aspect in order to build a truly multifaceted society where everyone has a real voice.
I cannot rec this enough.
Thank you Martha Pearce-Smith for bringing this to everyone's attention!
Peace and love be with you, reader.
The right to a sustainable energy future.
That is the phrase these Community rights groups are using and it is absolutely key. The whole idea is essential. How does it make sense in any way shape or form to trash this planet from which we derive our sustenance? We all know this here but what a stupid, stupid way to build a society....to profit from ruining our planet. The stupidity is astounding and overpowering us faster than we can fight it.
I am so glad to see this here. This is fantastic, a seed of hope. Thnx.
The breakup of the US isn't going to be through violence...
Just people asserting more and more control over the privileges and laws that faraway bureaucrats have no interest in or ability to enforce.
I look forward to the eventual rise of the City State again. Here's hoping that these ones are better about NOT fighting with each other over everything.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Ah, TY DMW, for that concept. It makes a lot of sense and we can
work with it intentionally within our local communities. Do you know anything in more detail about city-states in history? How they functioned? How that concept could help our towns become more resilient? Enjoy your day mate.
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There's a lot of nuances.
The relationship between city states and colonies of the city states was complex, as were the various alliances between them. (If we're discussing Hellenic systems) Democracy in those states wasn't as pure as we think, and there were often conflicts between tradition and the young. It gets crazy, but the system relied heavily on local festivals and traditions to keep the people together. (Theater as a festival of Dionysus, for example) The main reason they fell apart was due to outside aggression from empires, like Macedon or Rome.
If you want to get technical, many of the ancient Gaulish/Celtic tribes also worked in a decentralized city-state style system, but those heavily depended on local custom for how they were run. Either as a dicatatorship, or occasionally in elected bodies. It's all complicated and archaic. Sadly a LOT of the way they ran things has been lost due to Roman purges of the history in favor of pretending they were all savage barbarians..
I think the main thing that was the common thread holding these societies together was community involvement and a sense of shared destiny. As long as we keep this "Everybody for them self" attitude, it will be hard to maintain. However, as soon as we get a more community minded mentality, as we see in places that have been hit by disaster, city-states are the natural evolution of neighbors helping neighbors.
Just my opinion of course, but I strongly believe in the "Shire" type of goodness among people. (Yes, I'm a idealist)
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TY for this, DMW. I think you're right about all of this. If we
work towards local resiliency, it probably ends up in your city-state concept, while the political chaos and climate change disasters overwhelm the federal and state govs. Those towns further along with resiliency, like Totnes, England, will transition to a city-state/shire system with success. All the others will degenerate into anarchy and/or dictator towns. i know where I want my kids to be! Thanks mate,
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The great thing about loving history...
Is that the historian's favorite game is "What If?"
It's actually a much more complex game than at first appearance, because it depends on understanding EVERYTHING that was going on, not just the major players in the history. The classic example is "What if The Germans Won WWII", but far too many people simply assume that the analogues to our current history would be in place. What that concept fails to take into account is the factionalism that would be present in any fascist state, where power was seen as the ultimate goal... In essence the end result would probably NOT be in a "Thousand year Reich" but rather a bunch of little local dicatorships run by fascists declaring each other to be not "Real Fascists" and constant wars between them, since Fascism considers war both desirable and moral. (My theory)
So yeah, I admit this is my "What If?" scenario for the breakup of the US, but it's based off my observations, what I consider human nature, and a bit of my idealism...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdXWM1btG4]
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The Archdruid had a fiction series on just that idea
called "Retropia". I found it fascinating. Here's a link to the first one, they come up in search easily if you use "Archdruid Report Retropia"
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2015/08/retrotopia-dawn-train-fro...
Morning Julia :=) Is he back from his break?
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Morning, Gerrit :-) why yes he is
Ahah, thanks Julia!
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Thanks for the link. Interesting read!
I admit I love Post-Empire fiction that isn't apocalyptic in nature.
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Nice to hear of success
Hey Martha,
It is great to hear some success stories. Thanks for the vids and links.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You're welcome everyone!
I am so glad so many have seen what I saw... HOPE...
I have been playing with my Photoshop and have this to offer the group...and I can do others as well if need be.
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Martha, thank you, this is absolutely beautiful!
Fits perfectly with my idea of what this group is all about.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Wow, Martha! That's gorgeous. Could it become our banner
thingy? No idea how. All of who then write Resilience: essays could use it to show folks visually what it's about. Wow.
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Yes, I had meant it as a banner... n/t
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Ooh, I found it. It's called Resilience1 in the image list.
TY Martha. I will learn to use it in every article. Maybe clean up some older ones too - hah, hah, time permitting.
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I have added the graphic
to this journal entry... looks good on the Community page.
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Wow, it just pops on the Comm page. Congrats, Martha. I'll
follow your example. It really pops and piques the interest.
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Excellent, Martha!
Simply Mahvelous!
Apparently, Gerrit handed off the ball to me in a comment earlier pertaining to the Library. (Can't find it, but I wasn't tripping, so I know for sure I read it.)
I'm putting together a discussion essay to help flesh out the foundations for the Library. "Resilience" seems to a necessary element of the future moniker. So I'm thinking "Resilience Resource Library" (RRL) or "Resilience Link Library" (RLL) for the eventual product. (no quote marks in the eventual title)
Which do you prefer?
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Personally,
I like "resource" library...because if we can add documents and book referrals, it would encompass it all, not just links.
Do you have any idea how we could store and share documents, like PDFs or Word docs? I have A LOT of stuff I could scan and save as PDFs and would love to share. And I have a lot of PDFs I have gleaned over the years from all over the Net about all kinds of topics...
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Going once, Going twice. Resilience Resourse Library it is.
I don't see how to post PDFs here apart from uploading the PDF to Google.docs and linking to it here (or in the library when the time comes.)
Now, let me gather all this discussion into its own thread.
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Bowing low...TY AB :=) Hope you're having a good day.
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Perfect
Can I use it with attribution?
When wealth rules, democracy dies.
No need for attribuiton...
I made it to use as a banner for all Resilience group postings...
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Peak Moment Television
I am just starting to watch the videos, but wanted to note that the producers of these videos, Peak Moment Television are a fabulous source of information on all of the Resilience topics. The interviewer is especially good.
https://www.youtube.com/user/peakmoment
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
I agree!
Should be one of our resources for reference.
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Great idea Martha. If AB gets us a pinned Resilience Library
magodie in the sidebar, that link could go there to help folks looking for resources. w00t!
We're cooking with gas today, eh. (A particularly odd Canadian saying that this African doesn't get, but use faithfully anyway. I mean, BBQing with a wood fire and coals is the real deal, right? :=)
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If you've ever had the misfortune to cook on an electric stove
That saying would make perfect sense to you. At least I assume that's where it comes from - although maybe it predates the arrival of the electric stovetop, one of the worst inventions of the modern age.
But the Internets tell me that it predates the horror of electric, its from the time of the introduction of gas vs. wood stoves:
That makes perfect sense...
and is pretty much what I thought, but wasn't sure. And I have heard (and have used) the expression all of my life!
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Thanks haikukitty! Now i know what I keep saying :=)
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Martha and Gerrit, your eyeballs are needed...
http://caucus99percent.com/content/building-foundations-resilience-resou...
I'm sure it needs polishing.
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Ah, thanks, marilyn. I'll bookmark it and go play :=)
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Martha! This is awesome!
Raggedy Andy needs to hear it with me. I just heard Part 1 and I'm not going to listen to the rest until I can listen with him. He will be thrilled by this, as I am. Thank you so much for providing this information. I live in a rural area and this is now a way to protect our space!
Cheers!
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I am SO happy that these
vids are proving to be so helpful to you and others...!
Keep us posted if you ever have to use this technique...
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Good videos Martha! This is a
Good videos Martha! This is a sign for the PTB that their pro corporate stances are not the stance of Most Americans. I agree that corporations are NOT people at all. they may be made up of people, but the corporate entity is a construct only. Paradigm shift away from Dystopia!
So long, and thanks for all the fish