I have been busy getting the message out about how now is the time. the big opportunity in history to rid ourselves of the corrupt governments that keeps humanity from evolving. and is leading humanity to extinction with their insane disregard for preventing climate catastraphe.
Finally, XR, extinction rebellion knows now. and are into horizontal governing for themselves and are beginning to see that this is the one demand that all countries should be making: a referendum to vote on changing the structure of gov’t. to horizontal, and to educate the public quickly about how to do it, how it works, which it could with videos (www.sociocracyforall.org/moose) the one of the people of Rojava (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDnenjIdnnE&t=6s), Syria that shows exactly how they do it. How it is the real thing, how it is gov’t. by and for the people, how to make it uncorruptible, and that if all countries demand this at the same time, through their network, it will have enough weight that the gov’ts will have to do it. And then the elections need to be monitored on all levels.
Those are the steps that would finally free us without violence, I should hope. The thing that no one has been able to imagine possible.
So, I am excited about this and really think that XR needs to do this now, with its network. Then all the ideas to transform and restore the planet and prevent catastrophic, irreversible, systemic changes will be able to flow, take hold, and be funded. I still need to push this a bit, to make sure it happens and that this singularity, this rarest of opportunities is not lost.
People must understand that horizontal governance works on the large scale as well as the small. Rojava is 4.5 million people with different cities. Nothing would change initially, commerce would continue as usual without any interruptions. What would change is how decisions are made, that is, from the bottom up, from the people involved, and not from corrupt authorities. Thus instead of things getting worse and worse, things would be getting better and better.
It has been incredible for me to see how few people can or want to see this. The “thought leaders” haven’t lifted a finger as they are so into their focus, it seems, that they cannot see beyond that, They talk about how all is connected, but then apparently, don’t see the connections, when its happening in real time and not in a book or paper. That is the problem with having “leaders” and depending on them. We are all just people, individuals, each of us with our different attributes and abilities to contribute to the whole.
What has been so clear for me, needs to become clear for everyone, especially all those protesters in every country, if we are going to move through this “crack” in the matrix, this window of opportunity, which is fleeting. Corrupt governments are taking humanity to extinction. The stakes are too high to permit them any longer. The world protests is saying enough is enough, and what’s more, the time for corrupt governments is over.
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Quotes from the video about Rojava:
“Rojava, a model in societal self-direction. Neighbors make most decisions that affect them in a body called a commune, which is simply a neighborhood assembly.
Communes are connected by electable and removable spokespersons, one woman and one man. to form a neighborhood council, and neighborhoods are linked to form city councils and so on and so forth.
This is a bottom up or horizontal system for organizing societies. The larger the area a council or administration has, the less power it has. The heart of power is in the communes themselves.
The commune is made up of commitees which residents can sign up for i.e. committee for defense, health, peace and consensus, economic, education, women.
The video goes by each committee one by one to understand how they work.
They have their own police force which is quite different than what we experience as “police”.
They have courts as well, but again different, and most disputes are settled out of court through the peace and consensus committee. Conflicts arising from patriarchal violence are not to be judged by men.
There is direct democracy in the commune system, and hence, flexibility.
We decentralize power by encouraging consensus and participatory decision making.
There is no master plan. As the Zapatistas say, “We have to make the road by walking”. So let’s get started.”
