Undercurrent

Happening tomorrow!

A reminder that to register for this event 15.09.20 2pm, talking Community Wealth Building with Joe Guinan, contact [email protected] for your wee zúm link, otherwise you will be locked outside this island of wisdom drowning in a sea of ignorance....

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Buckminster Fuller

Clearly it is a both-and rather than an either-or, just as Joanna Macy’s three dimensions of the Great Turning: I) holding actions (non violent and not as depicted in the image on top), lI) building new systems, and III) seeing with new eyes (the picture on the bottom is a combination of II and III)

Why We Need Community To Stand In The New Story: https://www.facebook.com/CharlesEisensteinOfficial/videos/2355089078082975/

What we can do to heal the planet and in the process heal humanity:
https://www.facebook.com/regenerativecultures/videos/2303470936360751/

CREDIT for the Meme-image creation: Gábor Tóth

Added in response to some of the comments as this post keeps spreading:

Erica Chenoweth collected data on all major nonviolent and violent campaigns for the overthrow of a government or territorial liberation since 1900. She discovered no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population—and lots of them succeeded with far less than that . Furthermore every single campaign that did surpass that 3.5% threshold was a nonviolent one.�

https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/?fbclid=IwAR1yl5gL5_7qlTlf4KP8APxe3hknOtDq6J4BhvMQe09eMfY6E5WJlqugXwE

Thanks to Anna Po***ck for sharing this talk with me.

Day one of United Conference with United Against Racism in Durres, Albania