Community Building
Neoliberalism has disaster capitalism; we can only counter this with disaster collectivism. Look on the sidebar under Community Revolution for more resources.
How to Build Global Community
From: Syracuse Cultural Workers
Think of no one as “them”
Don’t confuse your comfort with your safety
Talk to strangers
Imagine other cultures through their art, poetry and novels
Listen to music you don’t understand
Dance to it
Act locally
Notice the workings of power & privilege in your culture
Question consumption
Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation
Look for fair trade and union labels
Help build economies from the bottom up
Acquire few needs
Learn a second (or third) language
Visit people, places, and cultures – not tourist attractions
Learn people’s history
Re-define progress
Know physical and political geography
Play games from other cultures
Watch films with subtitles
Know your heritage
Honor everyone’s holidays
Look at the moon and imagine someone else, somewhere else, looking at it too
Read the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water
Know where your bank banks
Never believe you have a right to anyone else’s resources
Refuse to wear corporate logos: defy corporate domination
Question military/corporate connections
Don’t confuse money with wealth, or time with money
Have a pen/email pal
Honor indigenous cultures
Judge governance by how well it meets all people’s needs
Be skeptical about what you read
Eat adventurously
Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet
Choose curiosity over certainty
Know where your water comes from and where your wastes go
Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism
Think South, Central and North – there are many Americas
Assume that many others share your dreams
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard. Work to change this.
I foresee a world of such joy, abundance, and beauty that I hardly dare to describe it. This world is not a hope, it is an inevitability. I believe I will see it unfolding in earnest in my lifetime. It is my pleasure and my calling to do whatever is in my power to bring this world into being. It is already closer than close, a mere shift of perception away. This is true on both the personal and collective level. We catch glimpses of it, now and then, by the grace of something beyond our ken. It is a world where work and art are reunited, where no one asks, “How can I make a living?” but rather, “What is my gift to the world?”; where humanity is united in allowing the planet to heal; where money is an aid to generosity not competition or accumulation; where a multitude of long-suppressed and barely-imagined technologies, both material and psychological, blossom. I am not a dreamer. I know these transformations are inevitable, because they naturally accompany the new sense-of-self, the new human identity, that the present convergence of crises is propelling us toward.–Charles Eisenstein, author of Money and the Crisis of Civilization.
…oh, yeah, and I can’t not mention the peripheral vision of 2012 because it’s a subject of such contention
On the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun’s ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy.
This is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly for the past 26,000 years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT 21 December 2012. There are exhaustive explanations for this date’s cosmic phenomena, both scientific, pseudo-scientific, and from religious traditions all over the planet.
Here are two links to get you started.
Diagnostics
