Re: Fw: human rights and national sovereignty/ examples of localist grou

Examples? Unsure if you would characterize them as 'anarchists:' 

        There's a pan-European group, with I think, German origins (NEGG, I
think, or some arrangement of these letters)--groups of networks communiteis
that are intentionally connected with 'work-study' like encouragments by
members to take up jobs occassionally in the 'outer' world (meaning a world
of pritized individualism). Last I heard they were expanding their network
into the United States, in Florida.  
        There are the Acorn communities in the United States which are sort
of cut from the same cloth.


Regards,


Mark Whitaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison

At 10:15 PM 5/3/99 EDT, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 5/3/99 10:41:32 PM, upf@upf.org writes:
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><<  I'd be curious to know of at least one successful example of practical
>>  implementation of this idea. It needs just a trifle - radical change of 
>human
>> nature.
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>There have been many examples of anarchistic communities and groups. I was 
>involved with Food Not Bombs of San Francisco for 8 years. This group of all 
>volunteers operates successfully. Cooking and serving free vegetarian meals 
>to the homeless every night since 1988, even while being arrested over 3000 
>times for this activity. Christiana, a community of 5000 in Copenhagen has 
>survived gov't. attacks for almost 30 years successfully. There was a great 
>anarchist community in Spain that was crushed with the help of Hitler in 
>1939. There are many,many other examples. It could only work on a global 
>scale, if the groundwork is laid before the fall of civilization(euphemism 
>for barbarity) as we know it. Then, it would be possible to transform the 
>paradigm painlessly and quickly, once and for all. One must surmise that 
>everyone carries in their heart this dream.
>
>As far as "human character", this is IMHO very unsophisticated to assume 
>human character is bad. Anyone knows that anyone can behave as a saint or a 
>devil and anything in between from moment to moment. Our current society 
>based on the narrow view in which all decisions are based on the "bottom 
>line", diminishes all that is of grace and beauty in our existence. The 
>result is a degraded world on every level that is not sustainable. Alienation 
>is the result, which leads to the dysfunctional behavior that you 
>characterize as the way humans are. Put humans under conditions that are 
>natural and fair, and you will see beautiful people.
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>						Tom O (bagelhole1)
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