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With this �last group we have done this in Hindi with activists in the state of Maharashtra and Odisha, and in Bengali with rural activists in West Bengal . �In every space, this is one of the most exciting stories for the participants. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I am attaching the power point we have used ( I have removed most of the pictures we use as that makes the file close to 15 mb) . I am also attaching a one page 11 point write-up which we also use for individual reading and group discussion before a larger discussion starts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I and my colleague Pallavi have no direct contact with the Zapatistas. We have gathered all the information from books, writings , �seminar lectures , and audiovisuals �available in the net. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I think quite a few in this <b>PeDAGoG</b> group are directly associated with the Zapatistas and we would be glad to get feedback , rectifications, modifications, additions etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The number of �people , communities, marez and caracols have to be upwardly revised as per latest reports we are getting. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>We have so far not used the film mentioned by Laurence �in class , although I have seen and taken notes myself : </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU" id=LPlnk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU</a> ('People Without Faces' - Documentary about the Zapatistas)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>I am writing my notes on the above film here to assist anyone who would like to use this film<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>On history and conflict with Mexican state <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>0 – 3:30 : indigenous people of Mexico : their history of awakening, map of Mexico ,their poor� socio economic status, less crime , migration into and formation of urban centres� in Chiapas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>3:30 – 6:20 :� Radio Zapata , Declaration from lacandon forest for autonomy , Basta! , EZLN – Zapatista Army for National Liberation , War 1994 onwards, Sub-commandante Marcos speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>6:20 – 9:00 : Land issue and precarious status of indigenous� people , interviews including of people hired in 1990s by Govt to repulse the Zapatistas but now changed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>9:00 – 13:40 : Interviews with various external activists talking about the status of indigenous people ,the “war” between Zapatistas and Mexican govt, , the indigenous congress in 1974, scenes of a big ( current 2016 ? ) meeting of Zapatistas�� <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>13:40 – 21:30 : In a caracol office a meeting explaining Zapatistas to a whole bunch of national and international visitors,� the murders by para-military forces in Acteal in 1997 while the govt. was treacherously holding talks with Zapatistas, , about the large refugee camp of people displaced by the para-military , the San Andreas agreement , formation of� autonomous municipalities , formation of caracols in 2003 , why the symbol of “snail”, caracols major task is dealing with external� people/agencies / visitors , presence of external observers ( 2016) as situation with Mexican govt has never been “amicable”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>21:30 – 26:40 : Visitors come to Ejido Pueblo. Talk with displaced persons describing govt atrocities , how para military gave the ultimatum to join them or else ! , Lot of fresh displacements in 2013 , disruption of coffee farming , coming back in 2016 and re-building farms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>26:40 – 33:50 : A� big meeting in Realidad , empty promises by govt , teacher Galeano assassinated by para-military , Marcos declares that someone has to die for Galeano to live on, and symbolically “Morcos dies” and he takes the name Galeano. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>More on their new governance , economy, schools <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>33:50 – 35:40 : telling the myth of golden people ( the exploiters) , wood people, corn people of multiple colors and types. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>35:30 – 38:00 : Argentinian activist describes “production autonomy” of Zapatistas, says lots of self-organizing work is still left , contrasts Zapatista philosophy with state and market led consumerist society and individualism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>38:00 – 42:25 : Visitors travel into Zapatista territory to a caracol meeting where people are present from all “three levels” , talk on women’s equality and liberation, and indigenous people’s autonomy and self govt.� <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>42:25 – 45:36 : Explaining the three levels pf governance : local , municipal ( marez) and zonal ( caracol ) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>45:30 – 46:30 : the school <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>46:30 – 49:40� : while many who receive govt pensions are happy, the Zapatistas refuse such handouts and depend upon their own sweat and earnings . Collective agriculture and animal husbandry and other occupations. Collective decisions on what to do with earnings . Coffee cooperative <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>49:40 – 51:00 : general assembly ( not clear what level ) . Different tribes getting together ( not so common before ) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>51:00 – 52: 50 :� Teacher talking about their gods and spirits, about how they are appointed by community ,their autonomous schools , how they willingly took voluntary outside help to set these up. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>52:50 – 55:50 : their autonomy from national govt, their own birth certificates and driver’s license, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>55:50 - 57:30 : nice faces of various indigenous� people.� <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>This is also a request for any films on Zapatistas which show more details about their autonomous three tier governance , meetings at the local level, decisions and actions at marez and caracol levels , their economy including non agri-cooperatives, their schools and university and students engaged in practical activities outside class, their health systems etc . �<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Sujit <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Davis, Laurence<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ted Trainer <tedtrainertsw@gmail.com>; Hari DK <hari.coding@gmail.com>; David Barkin <dpbarkin@gmail.com>; Ariel Salleh <arielsalleh7@gmail.com>; Carlos Tornel <tornelc@gmail.com>; Tom Abeles <tabeles@gmail.com>; gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org; to: Radical Ecological Democracy list <radical_ecological_democracy@googlegroups.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>This is a very nice amination. Thank you for sharing it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Some of the following videos may also be useful for teaching purposes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0" id=LPlnk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0</a> ('Accidental Anarchist - What is the Rojava Revolution?')<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU" id=LPlnk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU</a> ('People Without Faces' - Documentary about the Zapatistas)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>...and my personal favourite...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y" id=LPlnk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y</a> ('Living Utopia: The Anarchists and the Spanish Revolution')<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>I use all of them in my third-year Government and Politics undergraduate module, 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics', which I have taught for many years here at University College Cork, Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>The following readings on their module syllabus, useful for those new to the subject matter as well as more advanced readers, are also generally well received by the students:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>John Clark, <i>Between Earth and Empire </i>(PM Press, 2019) and <i>The Impossible Community</i> (Bloomsbury, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Murray Bookchin, <i>The Ecology of Freedom</i> (AK Press, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>David Graeber, <i>The Democracy Project </i>(Allen Lane, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Amadeo Bertolo, ‘Democracy and Beyond’, <i>Democracy and Nature</i>, Vol. 5, Issue 2, July 1999, also available at <a href="http://www.democracynature.org/vol5/bertolo_democracy.htm" id=LPlnk972077>www.democracynature.org/vol5/bertolo_democracy.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>William Morris, ‘Useful Work Versus Useless Toil’, in A.L. Morton (ed.), <i>Political Writings of William Morris</i> (Lawrence & Wishart, 1979)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>William Morris, <i>News from Nowhere </i>(1891)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Michael Robertson, <i>The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy</i> (Princeton University Press, 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Ursula K. Le Guin, <i>The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia</i> (Harper & Row, 1974)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman (eds.), <i>The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s </i>The Dispossessed<i> </i>(Lexington Books, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, <i>Ecofeminism</i> (Zed Books, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, <i>As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>George Orwell, <i>Homage to Catalonia</i> (1938)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Martha Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>(AK Press, 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Sam Dolgoff (ed.), The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>(Black Rose Books, 1974)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Val�rie Fournier, ‘Utopianism and the cultivation of possibilities: grassroots movements of hope’, in Martin Parker (ed.), <i>Utopia and Organization</i> (Blackwell, 2002), 189-216<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Dylan Fitzwater, <i>Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language </i>(PM Press, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Ashish Kothari et. al. (eds.), <i>Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary</i> (Tulika Books, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Laurence Davis, ‘Anarchism’, in Vincent Geoghegan and Rick Wilford (eds.), <i>Political Ideologies: An Introduction</i> (Routledge, 2014), ch. 9<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Colin Ward, <i>Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction</i> (Oxford University Press, 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'>Laurence<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> GTA-PeDAGoG <<a href="mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org</a>> on behalf of Mofwoofoo <<a href="mailto:mofwoofoo@gmail.com">mofwoofoo@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> 29 September 2021 22:15<br><b>To:</b> Ted Trainer <<a href="mailto:tedtrainertsw@gmail.com">tedtrainertsw@gmail.com</a>>; Hari DK <<a href="mailto:hari.coding@gmail.com">hari.coding@gmail.com</a>>; David Barkin <<a href="mailto:dpbarkin@gmail.com">dpbarkin@gmail.com</a>>; Ariel Salleh <<a href="mailto:arielsalleh7@gmail.com">arielsalleh7@gmail.com</a>>; Carlos Tornel <<a href="mailto:tornelc@gmail.com">tornelc@gmail.com</a>>; Tom Abeles <<a href="mailto:tabeles@gmail.com">tabeles@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org</a> <<a href="mailto:gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org</a>>; to: Radical Ecological Democracy list <<a href="mailto:radical_ecological_democracy@googlegroups.com">radical_ecological_democracy@googlegroups.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div style='border:solid #9C6500 1.0pt;padding:1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt'><p class=xmsonormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:#FFFEC8'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>[EXTERNAL] </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon'>This email was sent from outside of UCC.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am writing as a long time radical anarchist activist "on the ground". I am not a scholar, but I have read a lot over 55 years. While I view the article (The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation) worthwhile, it is nothing new at all. Anarchist literature and scholarship goes back to the 1860's when these same ideas were expressed. Anarchists have seen through the problem of hierarchies in gov't. and in general. I have submitted the 7 minute animation that I made in 2020 which explains a lot about organizing in a horizontal fashion: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8&t=5s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8&t=5s</a>. And how it might be the only way to eliminate once and for all corruption in governments. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Citizen participation a la transition towns initiatives, localization, collectivism, decentralization, deconsummerism, self-reliance, economies that promote the good of the whole, cooperation, respect for the environment, etc. are ideas whirling around throughout the internet and the world. And as I am sure it is clear to everyone in this group, that the current system of capitalism is the perfect recipe for suiciding the human race.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Meanwhile, as capitalism is collapsing or is being collapsed, there seems to be a rush to assert authoritarianism as soon as possible. And clearly the vaccine mandate and the pcr tests are ways to do this. But since the vaccine mandates will not go away no matter how hard the pushback is, they seem to have plan b ready to go: world-wide food shortages which would result in world-wide food riots and chaos, which will justify martial law and state of emergency declarations, which at least in the USA would empower FEMA to overstep the Constitution and do whatever they want due to the executive orders that give them total power. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To avoid this from happening, people need to check on where their area's food sources are coming from and if they will be available or not. And in this way, using google or duck, duck, go one can ascertain what really is happening and what is going to happen in these regards. And if food shortages are indeed imminent, alert the citizenry to prepare by storing up on rice, beans, lentils, grains, tins, and storing food in preserves and salt for perhaps 6 months and setting up programs for those who don't have a few hundred dollars to spend to be able to be prepared as well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, I am the founder of a mostly latino, artist, eco-community in Ecuador (<a href="http://chambalabamba.org">chambalabamba.org</a>, under construction) since 2012, and believe me, this is not the solution for the world. It takes years to get it going, most communities fail for lack of funds or cohesion, it is not for everybody, and it is a false hope for those who believe that this is the way, imho.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>