Maastricht Microsolidarity Congregation: ep1
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People, Practices & Place
A Simple Structure to Hold a New Microsolidarity Community Last week I published the latest story in my Microsolidarity series, explaining how to start a new mutual aid community (a “Congregation”). That chapter was exclusively focussed on the initiation process: where do you start? For this chapter, I want to advance the clock a few months.
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How To Weave Social Fabric
3 Essential Pillars For a New Mutual Aid Community Weaving image by Wei-Cheng Wu on Unsplash I published the Microsolidarity proposal a year ago and really struck a chord with people. I’m overdue to give folks an update, and there’s really a lot of exciting news. So first I’ll give a quick recap, then I’ll share
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#2: Energising Conversations, Books, Practices & Podcasts
Looking back over my calendar, I’ve had some amazing conversations so far in January. Here’s a sample: Connecting with super clever, courageous, warm people in the XR Future Democracy Hub. My highest hope for XR is that it might cement the link in the public imagination, between the ecological crisis and the democracy crisis. I
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Really coherent groups can maintain their harmony despite holding divergent mental models.
Really coherent groups can maintain their harmony despite holding divergent mental models. See: neighbourhoods with a strong local culture but low political alignment.
#1 What I’m Paying Attention To
First up, let me say thank you for joining my newsletter. I imagine I’ll post once or twice a month with a summary of what’s interesting to me right now. Mostly this will be a list of links to articles, podcasts, or books without a lot of editorial comments. I’ll also include brief updates about
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Introducing: What I’m paying attention to
Hello! I’m Richard D. Bartlett. Join this newsletter if you want to occasionally receive an update from me. I’ll share highlights from the articles, books, videos, podcasts that I’m paying attention to, and let you know when I publish new work. Content will be varied. Expect some themes like decentralised organisations, bottom-up politics, self-management, participatory
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Good work!
Good work! This reminds me a lot of Aaron Swarz’s parpolity proposal from 2012. For what it’s worth, here’s my view.
A very short story about peace
Photo of Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) by Peter Hammer A lot of 1st-time visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand have an experience they can’t articulate e.g. they might say “I feel like I’ve come home at last”. I think what’s happening is that they meet a critical mass of peace and don’t know the word for it. Compared to other
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