‘Dark Municipalism’: The Dangers of Local Politics
By Mason Herson-Ford, Christian Bjornson, Forrest Watkins, Aaron Vansintjan, Uneven Earth
Continuing our discussion of the potential pitfalls of radical municipalism, we want to address this toxic strain of localism – what we’ve termed dark municipalism – and why it is so dangerous. If a diverse, egalitarian, and ecological local politics is to be successful, it must develop strategies for addressing and combating these tendencies.
How Radical Municipalism can Go Beyond the Local
By Aaron Vansintjan, Mason Herson-Ford, Uneven Earth
We can build community and force elites to listen to our demands at the same time. Radical municipalism is a project to take direct democratic control over the places where we live.
How to Build a New World in the Shell of the Old
By Mason Herson-Ford, Jason Geils, Katie Horvath, Aaron Vansintjan, Uneven Earth
Every city has its graveyard of nonprofits, cooperatives, social clubs, and community centers. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism.
Hierarchy, Climate Change and the State of Nature
By Katie Horvath, Mason Herson-Ford, Aaron Vansintjan, Uneven Earth
We briefly mentioned the problem of hierarchy as the shared root of many systems of oppression in our first column two weeks ago. In this article, we want to expand on the meaning of hierarchy—a system of obedience and command backed by the threat of force—and ground it in history.