Where are the municipalists in the US and Canada?
By Eleanor Finley, Aaron Vansintjan, Minim
The very “incoherence” for which US and Canadian municipalists are criticized is a sign of a evolving movement grappling with historical problems on a civilizational scale.
Resources for a better future: Human Nature
By Eleanor Finley, Uneven Earth
Our biology equips us to understand not only what is, but also what could and what should be. We are ethical creatures; we are nature debating, rationalizing, and thinking with itself.
The Stories We Need: Pan-African Social Ecology
By Eleanor Finley, ROAR Magazine
Kadalie’s book is one more testament that a collective awakening is taking place to jettison the state and redefine global history from the bottom up. For all this, direct democracy by itself can hardly promise social and ecological restoration. Democracy is not a matter of implementing formulaic procedures and structures; it is a matter of fostering bonds of mutual support and the sharing of communal power.
The New Municipal Movements
By Eleanor Finley, ROAR Magazine
Blurring the lines between social movement and local governance, these municipalist experiments organize on the basis of existing municipalities or districts, demanding socially just and ecological solutions to issues that concern the community as a whole.
Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model
By Eleanor Finley, ROAR Magazine
As a solution to the present situation, a growing number of people in the world are proposing “communalism”: the usurpation of capitalism, the state, and social hierarchy by the way of town, village, and neighborhood assemblies and federations. Communalism is a living idea, one that builds upon a rich legacy of political history and social movements.
Energy from Below: the Anti-Fracking Movement
By Claire Fauset, Eleanor Finley, ROAR Magazine
The anti-fracking movement is about more than ecological issues. Discussing alternative ways to organize energy and society are central to this struggle.