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Secrecy vs openness.

I love The Yes Man groupe! Often, I get inspired by their work and read their website. That’s what they’ve got:

As activist and writer George Lakey points out, “To win, movements need to expand. To expand, activists need to trust—themselves, each other, and people they reach out to.” This is true both within the team and with outside allies who are necessary to get the ball rolling. Creating an environment based on suspicion and fear can break a team apart and be totally counterproductive to inspiring others to join your movement.

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What is the role of the artist?

We wrote a series of essays called ArtCommunism with David Graeber, partly about the possible role of the artist and the art in general.

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The Planning Assembly Health Care (the UK): a report

This is a report from the second planning meeting for our Visual Assembly (Health Care system/NHS/UK), which took place on 4 July 2020, in virtual space, though mainly in London..

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The 1st City of Care Visual Assembly: a report

Dear all,

How might a non-catastrophic social order actually work? How might we, along with our children, grandparents, etc., run a city like Newcastle or London – could organize our schools, hospitals, garbage collection, and food production – ourselves?