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The Art of a Hopeful, Solarpunk Future - The Story Seed Library in c/breadtube@slrpnk.net
[–] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this video.

It's great that more people are helping spread the word about these kinds of projects, which open people's minds to imagining the prosperous world we want to build, and that more and more people are joining the community to build it together.

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    The Communes of Rojava Six Years On: Towards Many Democracies of Neighbors (www.youtube.com)
     

    Six years after making “The Communes of Rojava” (2018), and in the face of some of the most dire attacks yet faced by the pluralist, women-led, radically democratic project in North and East Syria, I am releasing this “sequel.” Though deeply inspired by the Rojava Revolution, this video is not about Syria directly. It is about America. For the last six years, I have been trying my best to build practical examples of grassroots, neighbor-powered democracy, inspired by Rojava, on blocks and in apartment buildings in various states in the US. Here I share the lessons I’ve learned, models that have inspired me, and point to some very practical steps to organize a small-sized, face-to-face forum of neighbors on your block to discuss, dream, decide, and act together, ie. neighborocracy, or grassroots governance from below. This video covers topics like neighboring, sociocracy, neighborocracy, Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), and Abdullah Ocalan’s theories of democratic nation, democratic modernity, democratic autonomy, and democratic confederalism.

    Hostages of the Gun: On Militancy and Militarism in c/infrapolitics@slrpnk.net
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Very interesting article and comments.

    I take note of some things that the article comments, and especially:

    Bonnano calls for people to engage in struggle as though it were play

    However, Bonnano cautions that, “Those who use these tools must not become slaves to them. Just as those who do not know how to use them must not become slaves to those who do. The dictatorship of the tool is the worst kind of dictatorship.”

    In Spain, for almost a year, we self-managed 25% of the territory and industry through assemblies thanks to anarcho-syndicalism. From what I've read, amidst the complexity of the event, the most pointed factors of self-criticism tend to be the lack of instruments to balance forces and the lack of sufficient training.

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