Mason Herson-Ford
Transit organizer with @MotorCityFR from the future Cascadia Council Republic. // Free the land; hierarchies are for suckers.
Transit organizer with @MotorCityFR from the future Cascadia Council Republic. // Free the land; hierarchies are for suckers.
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.
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.
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.
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.