<div dir="ltr">Thank you Sara!<div><br></div><div>I meant to get this to you all earlier... this is happening tomorrow. It seems like a very cool Social Ecology- rooted action group that's working to respond to trumpism, among other things. I'm unable to make this meeting but I attended a great initial one this fall.  To reiterate what I shared with many of you this fall at a NL meeting...the discipline of Social Ecology is a fusion of proven aspects of anarchism and marxism, with an awareness that ecological principles are at work in human social systems. Some Social Ecology work has investigated the relationship between human hierarchy and ecological destruction.<div><br></div><div>This was sent to me by Eleanor Finley (<a href="mailto:eleanor.finley@gmail.com">eleanor.finley@gmail.com</a>), a UMass PhD student of Social Ecology. Don't hesitate to contact her if you're interested in these ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Sun and Peace,</div><div>Ned<br><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>When:  <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Saturday, Feb 18</span></span>. <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">4 - 6 pm</span></span></b></font></span></p><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Where: Pioneer Valley Worker's Center, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Northampton</span></b></p><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>20 Hampton Ave, #200 </b></span></p><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><a href="https://www.pvworkerscenter.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pvworkerscenter.<wbr>org/</a>  </b></span></p><div style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt">Agenda: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"> To discuss readings/peer education, break into local discussion groups (identify key issues?), follow-up on organizational questions (who are we?) </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:14.6667px">**</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><i>Please extend the invitation</i> to your friends and neighbors who might be interested in joining us!**  </span></b></div></span></div><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><b>Readings!</b></i>  </font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">As we discussed during our first meeting, me, Jonathan, and Lisa have assembled some resources. Please try to come having read at least one:  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">(1)  <i> The Meaning of Confederalism </i>by Murray Bookchin (2016) (attached)</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">An in-depth introduction to municipal politics and the principle of confederation. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(2)   <i>A Federation for Freedom and Direct Democracy (AFADD) Manifesto</i> (2001) (attached) </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">This organization came out of the Anti-Globalization Movement during the late 1990s/early 2000s. They laid a lot of groundwork!  </span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(3)  <i>Seattle Neighborhood Action Council (NAC) How-to (attached) </i></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This explains how to form a "neighborhood action council," that is; to use municipal organizing as a form of resistance.  </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">(4) <i> Reason, Creativity, Freedom: the Communalist Model</i>. by Eleanor Finley</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Link: <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/communalism-bookchin-direct-democracy/" target="_blank">https://roarmag.org/essays/<wbr>communalism-bookchin-direct-<wbr>democracy/</a></span></font></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">ROAR Magazine just published this brief introduction that I wrote. It is for beginners. Note that the words "communalism" and "municipalism" are used interchangeably.  </span></font></font></span></p><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></span></div><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the last few week, one of our members, Alexa Frazier, has worked to develop this symbol adapting the principles of a municipal movement. Feel free to use it or pass along! </span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_iz3051gs3_15a3393377d299c1" width="296" height="296" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1.<b> Non-hierarchy</b></span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: The idea that hierarchy is unethical, representing top-down relationships of domination between two or </span></font><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">more human beings. Although humans often project the idea of hierarchy onto the natural world (essentially 'naturalizing' the idea of </span>hierarchy<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">), hierarchy does not exist in the non-human world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. <b>Direct Democracy</b>: </span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The idea that people may create citizens assemblies in which they work together to discuss and determine the political policies that shape their everyday lives in their municipalities.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. <b>Moral Economy</b>: </span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Citizens (rather than just workers, for instance) can join together in the citizens' assembly to discuss and </span></font><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">determine the ways in which they will produce and distribute goods and services for members of the municipality.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. <b>Social Justice and Equality</b>:</span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> These ideals must always remain at the center of the forums in which we engage in political and economic justice and freedom. Those among us who hav</span></font><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">e been dehumanized in particular ways--through white supremacy, </span>hetero-patriarchy<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span>ageism<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, and so on--must remain constantly aware of regaining and maintaining human dignity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. <b>Ecology</b>: </span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The idea that humanity must be ever mindful to enhance, rather than deplete, the biodiversity and stability of the rest of the natural world. </span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">​<br></p><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>More links and info!</i> </font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Rojava, Syria:  <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/" target="_blank">https://roarmag.org/essays/<wbr>rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/</a> <br></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">Barcelona, Spain: <a href="https://medium.com/@BComuGlobal/why-the-municipal-movement-must-be-internationalist-fc290bf779f3#.3z946rsps" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@<wbr>BComuGlobal/why-the-municipal-<wbr>movement-must-be-<wbr>internationalist-fc290bf779f3#<wbr>.3z946rsps</a> </span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">The Zapatistas:  <a href="https://roarmag.org/magazine/why-we-still-love-the-zapatistas/" target="_blank">https://roarmag.org/magazine/<wbr>why-we-still-love-the-<wbr>zapatistas/</a> </span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">"Is America Ready for a Municipalist Movement?" <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/us-anti-fascism-municipalism/" target="_blank">https://roarmag.org/essays/us-<wbr>anti-fascism-municipalism/</a></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">The Communalist Project, Murray Bookchin. <a href="http://social-ecology.org/wp/2002/09/harbinger-vol-3-no-1-the-communalist-project/" target="_blank">http://social-ecology.org/wp/<wbr>2002/09/harbinger-vol-3-no-1-<wbr>the-communalist-project/</a></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">Revving it Up, the Revolutionary Potential of the New Anti-globalization Movement by Chaia Heller.  <a href="http://social-ecology.org/wp/2005/01/revving-it-up-the-revolutionary-potential-of-the-new-anti-globalization-movement/" target="_blank">http://social-ecology.org/wp/<wbr>2005/01/revving-it-up-the-<wbr>revolutionary-potential-of-<wbr>the-new-anti-globalization-<wbr>movement/</a>  </span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">Looking forward to seeing you soon! </span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2668605419061113145gmail-s1">- Eleanor </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Sara Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saragerbrown@gmail.com" target="_blank">saragerbrown@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hello, just wanted to plug a couple events this weekend (fliers attached):<br></div>~Friday/today!~<br></div><div>Earth Democracy vs. Corporate Globalization with Vandana Shiva<br></div><div>@ Stoddard Hall Smith College 4pm (hop on the 3pm or 3:30pm PVTA 39 bus)<br></div><div>~Sunday~ <br>Belated Birthday of the Trees @ Red Barn 4pm<br>Jewish Student Union is hosting this nature celebration and feast - no jewish background necessary - and there will be tons of FOOD (including 10 loaves of homemade challah)!<br></div>ALSO this is a fucking crazy invention turning car exhaust into pen ink. <br><a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a25100/air-ink-kickstarter/" target="_blank">http://www.popularmechanics.<wbr>com/technology/design/a25100/<wbr>air-ink-kickstarter/</a><br></div>Hope to see you at <span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0)">New Leaf meetings Wednesdays 6:30-7:30 in Kern 108</span></span>. Have a great weekend! <br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">~Sara Brown<br></font></span></div>P.S. Another People's Climate March is happening in Washington DC on April 29th (1 week before the end of classes) to build solidarity and show resistance on Trump's 100th day in office. Check out the platform here: <a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/" target="_blank">https://peoplesclimate.org/</a> Hopefully we can get a large number of Hampshire people going... if you're interested in attending and/or helping to coordinate this please reach out to me <a href="mailto:sgb13@hampshire.edu" target="_blank">sgb13@hampshire.edu</a>. <br></div>
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