Real Progress
What I love about this organization is that it is entirely run by volunteers. People who simply want to help other people. The sweat equity they put into their effort to make our community a better place is truly “progress”.
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English Landowners have Stolen our Rights. It is Time to Reclaim Them
Almost all of us, in England and many other nations, are born on the wrong side of the law. The disproportionate weight that the law gives to property rights makes nearly everyone a second-class citizen before they draw their first breath, fenced out of the good life we could lead.
Covid, Culture and the Codices
So I think that this is a reminder that we really are children of the planet. That is what I would say: So that everyone works together truly with heart, and with faith, we can make a change.
Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
There is a chance we can shatter some of the toxic narratives that justify, and lend support to, the brutal systems of inequality, racism, and environmental devastation that are wreaking havoc on our lives.
The Reindeer Chronicles: Excerpt
And the global task of ecosystem restoration will begin in earnest. Once ideas on how to achieve what’s assumed to be impossible are articulated, that goal is no longer impossible.
Let’s get inspired.
Lockdown Reflections – A Bolton Story
One of our slogans which we diggers promote is ‘reclaim and extend the commons!’ Yet we have been as surprised as anybody else that this extension and reclamation of the commons should take this form of mass community mutual aid.
The Riveting Silence of the Kuruaya
The awareness of life is based on language, a huge puzzle of meanings that are entangled, and that form a lens through which we perceive the past, the present, the future and the invisible. Here, at the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, along the Xingu River and its main tributary, the Iriri, traces of a missing population are found.
Pandemic Solidarity: Care, Love and Mutual Aid
Through the tangible, day-to-day ways people survive, have survived and will continue to survive, we can glimpse at who we really are — open, vulnerable, caring, brave, dedicated, compassionate and socially responsible people acting with, and through our collective fear.
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
The eventual outcome of this great implosion is up for grabs. Will we overcome denial and despair; kick our addiction to petroleum; and pull together to break the grip of corporate power over our lives?
E-communitarian Democracy: What is it?
We consider democracy especially in its direct, participatory and/or representative forms, and for the satisfaction of individual needs (within the ecological frugality prescribed by the third fundamental norm of ethics, and respect for interculturality).
Beyond the Divides of Black-and-White Thinking – Coming Together in the Heart of Our Wholeness: Part 4
High and low, rich and poor, black and white, left and right – it is time for us to end our divisions, and create a world, not of unlimited growth for the few, but the well-being of the many — a level playing field where all of us, and all of life, can flourish.
Deep Adaptation Opens Up a Necessary Conversation about the Breakdown of Civilisation
As Rob Hopkins and Joanna Macy say, we must lead with our heads, hearts and hands: understanding what is happening (collapso-logy), imagining and believing in other worlds, and finding courage (collapso-sophy) as well as gathering living forces to build alternatives and lead the fight against destructive powers (collapso-praxis).
