Course Overview Communities that Protect and Resist (CPR) train, motivate and support activists to spread radical Community Building throughout the planet. As a foundational component of this effort, we offer a 3-course sequence for Resistance Activists and Resistance Community Leaders. We invite activists to enroll. Too often, activists don’t receive adequate leadership development. Whether you’reContinue reading “Communities that Protect & Resist: Announcing the Leading Resistance Cadres course”
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Communities that Protect & Resist: Call for Volunteers
Communities that Protect and Resist is a support group, clearinghouse, resource bank, and facilitator for activists who want to build strong communities and leverage them to pursue a sustainable and just existence and resist the dominant culture. We’re a coalition of and for communities working together to actively and directly resist the forces destroying theContinue reading “Communities that Protect & Resist: Call for Volunteers”
Leading Resistance Cadres
Course Overview Communities that Protect and Resist (CPR) train, motivate and support activists to spread radical Community Building throughout the planet. As a foundational component of this effort, we offer a 3-Course Sequence for Resistance Activists and Resistance Community Leaders. We invite activists to enroll. Tentative Schedule: Nov 1, 2021 – Jan 10, 2021 [~Continue reading “Leading Resistance Cadres”
Radical Justice
by Jennifer Murnan What does justice mean within a CPR collective? How do we institute practices that can maintain justice within our communities? The dominant culture is designed on every level to maintain systems of domination and subordination; and the system that delivers what is called “justice” within civilization is completely consistent with this overridingContinue reading “Radical Justice”
Community Interview Series: Nepal
We in CPR are delighted to know activists around the world who are committed to protecting and defending their land and the life in their communities.To celebrate the work of these protectors and to help build a larger alliance of like-minded activists, we begin a series of occasional interviews.Our first communique comes from Nepal. TellContinue reading “Community Interview Series: Nepal”
When Strategy is Not Enough: The “EDS” Model of Campaigns*
Let’s face it – resistance work is enormously difficult, fraught with the challenge of overcoming an overwhelming threat in the dominant culture. And despite the passion and commitment of activists, our work is too often not as effective as it needs to be, to save the living world. We’re losing. Resistance work has gotten smarter,Continue reading “When Strategy is Not Enough: The “EDS” Model of Campaigns*”
Leading Communities of Resistance: Course Offering
Characterizing Community Series: Leadership, Part 2
We’ve been exploring the notion of Community as a way of understanding this critical component of resistance to the dominant culture. One outcome of these explorations is that we Community builders better understand where our collectives are – see our earlier post describing Functional vs. Conscious vs. Deep Community, and the notion of Radical Community. Continue reading “Characterizing Community Series: Leadership, Part 2”
Characterizing Community Series: Leadership, Part 1
We’ve been exploring the notion of Community as a way of understanding this critical component of resistance to the dominant culture. One outcome of these explorations is that we Community builders better understand where our collectives are – see our earlier post describing Functional vs. Conscious vs. Deep Community, and the notion of Radical Community. Continue reading “Characterizing Community Series: Leadership, Part 1”
Characterizing Community Series: Shared Power
We’ve been exploring the notion of Community as a way of understanding this critical component of resistance to the dominant culture. One outcome of these explorations is that we Community builders better understand where our collectives are – see our earlier post describing Functional vs. Conscious vs. Deep Community, and the notion of Radical Community. Continue reading “Characterizing Community Series: Shared Power”
Communities that Protect and Resist 