Re: Fw: human rights and national sovereignty/ examples oflocalist group

Mark Douglas Whitaker wrote:

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

        I think the characterisation is based on the relationship between balanced
anarchy and self-governing, cooperative local entities.


>         There's a pan-European group, with I think, German origins (NEGG, I
> think, or some arrangement of these letters)--groups of networks communities
> that are intentionally connected with 'work-study' like encouragments by
> members to take up jobs occassionally in the 'outer' world (meaning a world
> of privitized 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.

        Do you have any URLs for related web sites?


> At 10:15 PM 5/3/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >
> >In a message dated 5/3/99 10:41:32 PM, upf@upf.org writes:
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >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.

        I am still not convinced that anarchistic/anarchism are the correct words
to describe what we are look at in terms of what we want to create for a global
system.


> >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.

        So what we are talking about is true people empowerment?
        I am familiar with a movement to create a permanent Global Peoples
Assembly.
        Would that be something in the right direction?
        Their web site is http://www.ourvoices.org

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