Communities that Protect and Resist

Jules Kirk – Obituary

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of friend and comrade Jules Kirk, who died on Thursday, November 27.

Jules was a co-founder of Communities that Protect and Resist (CPR). Her passion for and understanding of the importance of Community as a form of resistance and protection were instrumental in our organization taking life. Jules’ vision, advise and outreach also gave CPR its direction early on, and we are who we are now in great measure to her contributions and wisdom.

We remember Jules. Her work will continue.

For those of you who were not fortunate enough to meet Jules Kirk – a strong, independent, incisive force of nature – here she is, in her own words. [This is a draft of her bio for the CPR website and blog, circa 2021.]

I live on occupied Kalapuya land in what is called Oregon. I came here several years ago and immediately fell in love with this land and the life here. I have since devoted my life to protecting it from the dominant culture of greed and exploitation.

I came from the Southern U.S., immersed in racism, misogyny and capitalism. I have resisted those things my entire life. My first memories are of carrying BandAids to school in first grade (in case someone got hurt) to giving my aunt’s change away to a homeless man at about the same time. Even as a child I recognized the connection between us all. I was lucky to spend my childhood in a suburb next to a great wood and spent most of my time there exploring, talking and listening to the wildlife and the trees. I would have happily lived in that wood. It’s gone now, razed and flattened and replaced with shoddy housing.

I attended Western Texas College on a full academic Nursing scholarship and went on to work in Ob-GYN, Women’s Surgery and CCU for the next 15 years, giving me a lifelong love and respect for women and for the process of birth and death. It also made me very aware of the lack of true family and community in our lives. There were far too many women giving birth alone with no one to support them. While working on my degree in Psychology I managed a Temporary Placement Office, employing RN’s, LPN’s, phlebotomists, and CNA’s. I then managed and marketed an Assisted Living, and eventually worked as Administrator for a large, Retirement Community of townhouses, apartments, and studios. I loved working with elders who were being weighed down by their possessions and fearful of the changes in themselves as they aged. I can’t remember a single person that regretted their move. But the Retirement Community business got bigger and very competitive – offering less to the residents and charging more to live there. I left to care for a family member who was dying but I have never forgotten the faces and stories of the people I left behind. They were, and still are, an inspiration to me.

Retired now, I see the holes in our current communities and the divisions between people that shouldn’t be there. I, and my colleagues, want to continue learning how to live in a more compassionate, reality-based way and we strive to share that knowledge freely with anyone interested in a healthy, connected, and respectful community of the living. This is my passion, my mission. We know it’s a long road but it’s the only one that is worth traveling on.

Announcement: we’re now a coalition member in Blue Earth Defense (BED)

We in CPR are excited to announce that we’re now a coalition member in Blue Earth Defense (BED).

Blue Earth Defense is an international organization dedicated to defending our one and only home. BED is run by a group of volunteers spanning three continents, who have come together by our common love for Mother Earth and the natural world. “We are a global community of biocentric land defenders, water protectors, and community organizers working to expose greenwashing, train the next generation of change, and take action.”

BED’s Mission is to defend the Earth and all her inhabitants through unifying a strong global coalition of Earth protectors for a biocentric and just society. Members of the BED coalition are actively involved in campaigns to protect their communities and land bases across several continents.

JOIN THE BED LAUNCH!

The Official Launch of BED marks a milestone in building a united, global front for ecological and social justice.

With the theme “Building Global Solidarity for Earth Defense,” this launch celebrates the birth of a global platform that uplifts community-led environmental struggles and strengthens alliances across borders.

The launch will resemble an online conference, with several speakers from across the globe briefly detailing their resistance and community-building work. For those interested in the BED launch and the coalition, the sessions will also be recorded and made available later.

Date: December 7, 2025 // 9AM – 12AM (Manila Time); In the US: December 6, 2025 // 6PM – 8PM (MST)

https://www.facebook.com/events/1087585353455224/

To learn more about Blue Earth Defense and the work our coalition is involved in, check out the website: https://blueearthdefense.org

The emperor has no clothes, and the corporation has no say

A CPR salute to South Park and other political satirists

We at CPR would be remiss if we didn’t use this opportunity to highlight the brilliance of using humor as a weapon for resistance. In the US, there has been a wave of FU by humorists and political and social satirists directed at the very political and corporate entities who have the power to eliminates their voices from the cultural landscape.

We salute your satirical take down of those in power with this excerpt from Leading Communities of Resistance:

Humor Turns Oppression Upside Down. Do you know what a “piss-take” is? Essentially, it’s when someone teases or makes fun of someone or something – mocking at the expense of others. The point is that humor can be used in a targeted way to “take the piss” out of a person or group. When it works, three things happen more or less simultaneously.

(Sorenson, M.J. (24 Feb. 2008). Humor as a Serious Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression, Wiley Online Library):

The humor used is confrontational; it provokes, mocks, or ridicules, which escalates the conflict and puts pressure on the oppressor.
Although an increased pressure raises the chances of repression, paradoxically the use of humor reduces fear within the resistance movement.
Humor reduces the oppressor’s options for reacting in a way he can later justify.

“[Humor] protected people’s self-respect and gave the population some sort of control in an otherwise uncontrollable situation. The jokes also served to break down isolation and create a solidarity and group identity within the population. Because so many people shared the jokes, their very existence contradicted the Nazi propaganda that many people who did not join them would stand alone …The jokes also provided an image of nation-wide solidarity that vitally assisted the resistance effort.”

George Orwell

Watch for a series of Humor in Resistance posts on our Facebook page!

Reflections on Fascism

Occupied Lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Front Range Colorado Rockies
By Jennifer Murnan

American politics have been increasingly controlled by the wealthy elite. Oligarchy, government by a few for corrupt and selfish purposes is already present in the system. Every day the political situation worsens it follows that our communities must open conversations on how to resist further political movement toward increasingly dictatorial/fascist governance.

What kind of regime will we get when power is seized by a misogynistic con man want to be dictator whose mob is white Christian nationalist and a transhumanist mega mogul whose bloody hands are on the atomic bomb of all propaganda machines, social media? The answer – We are in the process of finding out.

When the 2024 election results were final, I spent a day and a night immobilized. My only thought was, “We are really in for it now.” And that – takes a while – to sink in. Thirty-six hours later I headed straight to the library and grabbed a stack of books looking for information to answer these questions:

What is fascism? Is this fascism?

What are the origins of totalitarianism?

How can I, my family, and my community combat fascism?

I decided I didn’t have any interest in reading alone, so I enlisted my mom, who is fearless in pursuit of the truth and in her love of human and greater-than-human community. We had deep conversations concerning the library books I discovered and read together. We have also comforted each other through sleepless nights and nightmares as we worked through the list and understood more about our communal plight. In one of my mother’s nightmares, a faceless orange blob, a repulsive infant, demanded attention and endlessly to be fed.

I also found a fellow traveler on this educational reading journey in my good friend and comrade, Boris. We are still digesting and discussing The Origins of Totalitarianism. I am reading this classic in English, and he is reading it in the author’s German translation. These conversations with my mom and with Boris have resulted in three book recommendations.

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hanna Arendt

Preparing for War by Bradley Onishi

How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

All three authors survived encounters with totalitarian regimes. Hanna was Jewish and was forced to flee the Nazis twice, once in 1933 to Paris and again in 1941 to the US. Bradley is a scholar of religion who spent eleven years in the White Christian nationalist movement. Maria spent years as an investigative reporter before becoming the CEO, co-founder and president of Rappler, the Philippines’ top digital- only news site. Maria and Rappler were targeted relentlessly by the Duterte Dictatorship. All three authors are excellent in their analysis of the destructive forces they have experienced, studied and describe, at the same time that they are of the culture of civilization which has ensnared us all. Here is a snapshot of the insights and information that these authors have given us as I revisit my initial questions.

Is this fascism? The United States is sliding into a political structure that bears hallmarks of fascism and totalitarianism. Of course, this development is consistent with the nation’s racist imperialist history. However, the fascists/ totalitarian regimes of the Nazi’s and of Stalin are products of the last century. Sadly, our condition has worsened.

What is fascism? A centralized autocratic government led by a dictator characterized by severe social and economic regimentation that forcibly and violently represses any opposition to totalitarian rule.

What are the origins of fascism?

Leaving aside the historical aspects, these are some of the societal and social conditions that were and are exploited by fascists.

Fascism and totalitarianism are supremely patriarchal. As such, these forces must engage in endlessly waging war against the enemies created by a meta narrative. Totalitarianism seeks absolute domination on a global scale.

Totalitarians utilize fabricated meta-narratives that glorify the return to a non-existent mythic past. Additionally, these narratives drive action toward a predestined future.

In the US, the government takeover is following the meta narrative of White Christian Nationalism and is profoundly racist. “In fact, racism is the foundation of White Christian nationalism, the load-bearing portion that supports the structure and weight of the entire project.” Bradley Onishi Preparing for War. The White Christian nationalist movement sees the US as God’s “City on the Hill”. The nation is chosen by God to bring the kingdom of the lord to the world. The US must return to its patriarchal white Christian origins to fulfill this God-given mission. The cross and flag have for decades appeared prominently side by side on many white evangelical pulpits.

When fascists first come into power their first mission is to eliminate all political and intellectual opposition. Rule by terror and fear follow the initial purge.

“Without concentration camps, without the undefined fear they inspire and the very well-defined training they offer in totalitarian domination, which can nowhere else be fully tested with all of its most radical possibilities, a totalitarian state can neither inspire its nuclear troops with fanaticism nor maintain a whole people in complete apathy.” — Hanna Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism, p. 587-588

Classic fascist leaders Hitler and Stalin were masters of sowing confusion, doubt, and division not only in the population, but within their inner circles. No relationships that could challenge their authority and absolute monopoly over power and control were allowed to form. Isolation and loneliness are conditions that make humans vulnerable to attack and susceptible to belief in conspiracy theories as well as other forms of authoritarian control.

“The effectiveness of this kind of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. They do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations, which may be caught by anything that is at once universal and consistent in itself. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part.” — Arendt, p. 462-3

In the US, the current government takeover has been in the works for 60 years with racist cultural roots that are much older. The gasoline poured on the fires of autocratic tendencies in the US and globally has been social media manipulation. Hate is the fuel for totalitarian movements and hate is the best-selling emotional content on the net.

Here in a nutshell is the rotten core and endgame of totalitarianism:

“For power left to itself can achieve nothing but more power, and violence administered for power’s (and not for law’s) sake turn into a destructive principle that will not stop until there is nothing left to violate.”

— Arendt, p. 184, addressing Imperialism

How can I, my family, my community combat destructive autocratic, totalitarian, oligarchical governmental takeovers? We can begin by seeking knowledge. The first chapter in How to Stand Up to a Dictator is titled -The Golden Rule Make the Choice to Learn. From the title on How to Stand Up to a Dictator is a practicum on how to be an effective resistor, individually and communally. All of us are in unique circumstances and yet, Maria Ressa’s principles for resistance, like CPR principles, can be universally applied.

An endnote. My mother’s nightmares ended with one final dream. All the women in our family were present to comfort reassure and support one blond haired blue eyed and very confused baby girl. The circle was whole and healthy, even the women that had been problematic in life were well.

There was no strife, only good will and love and purpose prevailed.

The Ethics of Resistance Leadership

The following post is an excerpt from a draft of the forthcoming book. Leadership for Resistance, planned for 2025:

THE ETHICS OF RESISTANCE LEADERSHIP.

” The central question informing discussions about leadership, in whatever context, concerns, ‘what is good leadership?’
…the definition question in leadership studies is not really about the question “What is leadership?”
It is about the question, ‘What is good leadership?’ By good, I mean morally good and effective.
This is why I think it is fair to say that ethics lies at the heart of leadership studies.”
John Gardner (2006), as quoted by Levine & Boaks (2014))

But leadership and ethics (at least in the Western world) have had an on-again, off-again relationship for quite some time. In the “classic” Greek philosophical world, leaders were accountable to fulfil and maintain eudaimonia, or the good (flourishing) of all humanity. In the works of Aristotle, eudaimonia was the term for the highest human good in the older Greek tradition. This is indeed a lofty standard for leaders to aspire to, and it has much to recommend it.
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So where, really, is the ethics of leadership in the dominant culture? It’s a near-sighted pursuit of good relations in pursuit of hellish ends. Institutions in the dominant culture do bad things nicely (if they’re of ethical bent). They focus on process (and not too stringently at that) to the exclusion of content. We’re hoping to do things differently.
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The problem with eudaimonia as a purpose we should pursue is that it is limiting. What does it ignore? Well, aside from humanity, everything else. Eudaimonia, at its core, is emblematic of the human supremacy orientation of our dominant culture, as articulated by, e.g., Derrick Jensen in The Myth of Human Supremacy (2016). The living community that is this planet in which we are embedded is much more complex than we can imagine, and it is that larger world, that richer community, that it behooves us to protect and defend. This is the “more” that leaders should serve as their shared purpose.
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Beyond eudaimonia, resistance leadership ought to pursue eupangaia*, the flourishing of the entire planet, not merely humanity. The prefix “eu-” means “good,” “well,” or “pleasant”. It comes from the Greek words “eu” meaning “well” and “eus” meaning “good”. “Pan” is another prefix, meaning “all”. Finally, I refer to “gaia” in the sense that the Greeks did, meaning “the earth.” In Greek mythology, Gaia, known as the mother goddess, was the personification of the Earth. She is described as a caring and nurturing figure to all the children and plants of the world. Another, complementary sense of “gaia” is the hypothesis that the living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system in such a way that the living component regulates and maintains conditions so as to be suitable for life (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Gaia).

Leadership, then, is the art and practice of inspiring others to struggle for a shared vision, eupangaia.

[A complementary perspective comes from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, which ends with the famous ethical pronouncement:
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise” (p. 262).

Contrasting the Matriarchal and Patriarchal Ethic

“The principle of balance between the sexes, between generations and between humans and nature constitutes their (matriarchal societies) fundamental ethical value.”

Heide Goettner-Abendroth Societies of Peace.

Ethics are at the foundation of any human structure or practice, visible and invisible. Just as the tenor and quality of leadership are determined by the ethics adopted by the leader(s), communities reflect their foundational ethics in every aspect of their being.

Patriarchy’s “ethical” foundation is domination and subordination. All structures and practices of patriarchal societies are hierarchical. By definition men violently dominate and control women in patriarchal societies. That is the essence of patriarchal social structure. Humans are positioned as superior to every other being on earth as ordained by God. That’s patriarchal spirituality. Worth is defined by accumulation and maximization of profit under capitalism. That’s patriarchal economics. Competition is the process by which decisions are made with the victor ruling over the vanquished. The patriarchal politic is the endless waging of war.

Matriarchy’s foundational ethic is balance. In the introduction to Societies of Peace, Heide Goettner-Abendroth summarizes Matriarchal societies as “sacred societies and cultures of the Feminine Divine”, “non-hierarchical, horizontal societies of matrilineal kinship”, “societies of economic mutuality, based on the circulation of gifts” and “egalitarian societies of consensus”.

World View, Culture, Spirituality

“sacred societies and cultures of the Feminine Divine”

The entire world and every being which inhabits our world is sacred and a descendant from the primordial mother, the original creatrix. Divinity is imminent. Each divine unique being and their gifts are celebrated in matriarchal cultures. The spiritual understanding is that life flows through the mother line, “mothers from the beginning” is the accurate translation of the word matriarchy. Mothers from the beginning is the basis for an uninterrupted relationship with the feminine divine from the beginning of life on earth. A continuum of relationship is also intrinsic in the matriarchal veneration of ancestors, especially matriarchs. These societies believe that their ancestors are reborn into their clans, through in a continuous cycle of birth death and rebirth. Could there ever be a greater balance than this uninterrupted flow of belonging and relationship?

Matriarchies see pairs of complementary elements that together complete each other. In essence, the two elements are so closely related that one cannot exist without the other. East and West, North South, day night, man woman. Each element is perfectly balanced by their complement, absolutely equal and essential to each other’s existence and to existence as a whole. Patriarchy sees pairs of opposites with one element good and superior and the other, bad and inferior, endlessly spiritually at war with each other for control.

Social Level

“non-hierarchical, horizontal societies of matrilineal kinship”

The basic unit of a matriarchal society is the matriclan. Matriclans are centered on and defined by the best practices of mothering. Clans consist of at least three generations of women, all descended from a common mother, the same mother line. The clans are matrilineal with kinship acknowledged exclusively through the mother. Frequently matrilocality is practiced. This is the practice of females remaining in the mother’s house for life. Everyone in a clan is a mother, sister, or brother in the big matriclan family. All women, whether or not they are the biological mother are mothers to the children of the clan.

Marriage is communal, a societal bonding between clans. This is an ancient means of insuring mutual aid. In the most traditional matriarchal communities, the husbands visit their wives at night but leave in the morning. They have no place in the wife’s clan house. The husband’s home continues to be the home of his mother, as it was from the beginning. Children are raised collectively by mothers, sisters, and brothers, with the mother’s brothers being the societal “fathers” of their sister’s children. There is no break in the continuity of relationships from the moment of birth. Balanced humans can trust the kinship bonds nurtured continually in matriarchal societies. Everyone is expected to behave as a good mother.

All work in a matriarchal society is sacred, and gender roles are created in complimentary and equally valued forms in order to accomplish the work necessary to maintain and balance society.

Economic Level

“societies of economic mutuality, based on the circulation of gifts”

The power of economic distribution is in the hands of women. The clan mother, the matriarch, is given all the economic wealth produced by the clan members.It is then her responsibility to equitably distribute those goods to all the members of the clan. Mutual aid is practiced by clans at the economic level. It is the responsibility of clans whose harvests are abundant to throw a celebration and gift their wealth. Honor and esteem are given to those who give, not to those who accumulate, hoard. Accumulation would inhibit the flow that is necessary to achieve economic balance and maintain nurturing relationships, individually and between clans. To maintain balance with earth matriarchal societies are subsistence societies, frequently but not always agricultural, and do not on principle take more from earth than is necessary to meet their needs. These societies gift back to Earth and the beings which feed them. This Gifting is a spiritual practice done through ritual.

Matriarchal societies distribute earths gifts through a constant circulation of gifts within their human community. Matriarchal societies seek economic mutuality and economic balance at all levels with all participants.

Political Level

“egalitarian societies of consensus”

It is at the political level that the foundational ethic of balance becomes most obvious in matriarchal societies. The mechanism by which decisions are reached is consensus. All decision making begins in the clan houses and all clan members, including the matriarch, have one vote, a truly egalitarian arrangement. The political process of consensus decision making is supported by reciprocal gift giving and the close bonds of the big matrilineal kinship family. These community members already have close, life-long, mutually supportive relationships before they engage in consensus decision-making. When consensus is reached within the clan house, a representative is sent forth to convey the decision to other clan houses. This representative has no decision-making authority. Their role is strictly that of communication. The same pattern of communicating is used at the regional level. Just as no wealth is allowed to accumulate at the economic level, no power is allowed to accumulate at the political level. Communication continues between all levels of the political body, individuals, clans, villages, regions until balance, consensus, is reached.

There is no political hierarchy in matriarchal societies. There is no enforcement through agents such as the police, using force to establish domination. There is no domination over. Domination is the foundational “ethic” of patriarchy. Balancing and rebalancing hold matriarchal communities together. The respect afforded matriarchs and other elders is particularly important as their wise council assists the community in keeping peace and balance through mutual decision-making.

In Conclusion:

Women created the matriarchal societal structure. All members of these communities, men and women, lovingly and spiritually maintain them. To be at peace, in balance, is what matriarchal societies seek, for the benefit of all.

References:

Goettner-Abendroth, Heide: Societies of Peace: matriarchies past present and future, 2012, INANNA Toronto, Ontario Canada

Goettner-Abendroth, Heide: Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe, 2012, Peter Lang Publishing Inc,New York

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Profile of Resistance Collectives #1: CRAP!

PROFILES OF RESISTANCE COLLECTIVES:

Each quarter CPR highlights one of the many rich examples of Resistance Communities found around the world. For our inaugural issue, we share the profile of a new Community in Canada.

CRAP! (Creative and Radical Alternatives for Preparedness) is a radical collective formed by Bastou Bacharach in concert with the principles we shared in our Leading Communities of Resistance course. We’re proud of the work taken on by our comrade Bastou, and the members of the CRAP! Community, and we hope for their continued success.

Introducing: CRAP! (Creative and Radical Alternatives for Preparedness)

People hanging out at the CRAP! Really Really Free Market in Perth, Ontario

CRAP! Is Creative and Radical Alternatives for Preparedness.
We are located on unceded Anishinaabe/Algonquin land. Our landbase is now called Perth Ontario, Canada. Our Community is a group of people committed to our landbase.

CRAP! is a brand new group and that is what makes its strength at the moment. It is very flexible in its culture and the projects it takes on at the moment.

VISION:
CRAP! Struggles for a world and a Community:
– That is resilient and adaptable to potential future problems including economic collapse, climate disruption, pandemics and more;
– Where people rely on and support one another on a neighborhood scale–rather than on external systems or infrastructure–and work together to meet their needs and goals
– Where people rely on nature-based, low-tech and community-based solutions to meet their needs and goals;
– Where ecosystems are thriving and human lifestyles are harmoniously integrated with the health of ecosystems;
– Where people have gatherings, festivals, rituals, work parties, and many opportunities to play and work together, to create and celebrate, to innovate and inspire;
– Where everyone is welcome, safe, respected and encouraged to be themselves; and
– Where mutual support, generosity and abundance are valued and prioritized over profit, scarcity and fear.

MISSION:
CRAP! strives to build a strong community in Perth and the surrounding area.
We imagine and create community-based alternatives to the failing capitalist, industrial systems and culture. We build trust and capacity and have fun while developing mutually beneficial relationships amongst ourselves and with the land around us. We aim to engage and include marginalized and oppressed people in our Community.

CRAP! is radical in the sense that it does not plan to rely on any existing structure that may disappear with the fall of the current system/civilization.

One of the main goals of CRAP! is to regenerate our landbase and the ecosystems around us. In this way we are land defenders.

People having conversation during the CRAP! Really Really Free Market in Perth, Ontario

The spiritual journey [in the Founder’s mind] is to have the courage to do something to protect the land and the animals who live here without being sure of what is coming our way… Building trust and commitment amongst ourselves in this current individualistic culture is a spiritual journey in itself.

One of our challenges is for everyone in the group to find the time and energy to make the CRAP! Community a priority. We all have work and distractions that pull us away from doing the important work of resisting this culture and regenerating our landbase.

External Constituencies:
– Local bylaws and other laws restraining what we can do without too much attention from detractors
– Mainstream “green” activists
– The wider community, local small businesses, town council and mayor, religious groups, etc.

Internal Constituencies:
– The core organizers and their creativity
– Project volunteers and participants
– Our local land base, her needs and feedback
– Ally groups (mainstream “greens”, food bank, anti-racism group, artists collectives, etc.)

Seedlings and dried plants being gifted during the CRAP! Really Really Free Market in Perth, Ontario

Assumptions:
– Except for our core organizers, most of our constituents are liberal people or heavily influenced by liberal beliefs. They do not imagine a world without the type of government currently in place or without the industrial civilization currently in place.
– They are overwhelmed when thinking about the future, by what should be done, and have no idea how they could be of any influence.
– They need inspiration, they need to feel confident, they need to have fun while the rest of the world seems more and more depressed.

For more information, or to communicate with a Community member, please contact
https://crapinperth.wordpress.com or crap-perth@riseup.net

New Book Coming This Winter!

Leading Communities of Resistance by Fred Gibson, PhD

Leading Communities of Resistance (LCOR) aims to help fill a critical void in resistance work – developing leaders of radical, resistance Communities to protect land, waters, and life. This book is for Deep Green activists, radical feminists, Elders, and those who aspire to taking on leadership roles in service of a living planet.

LCOR is for activists who understand the dominant culture must be dismantled and replaced by just and sustainable forms of social collectives. It also means to equip those who see social and environmental collapse as a real and impending danger with the means to protect and resist the dominant culture. Radical Community in its related forms are perhaps the basic standalone means of such resistance. I provide knowledge and best-practice actionable items resistance-based Community builders can leverage.

LCOR helps activists develop skills as leaders, and fosters development of values and a worldview to prepare them to be, or become, Community builders and Elders. LCOR baked in elements that will help the reader in this journey:

Narrative descriptions of best practices and “theory” components.
Reflection questions after most chapters.
Action Items help the reader use the principles and practices.

LCOR chapters are organized into four sections:

Primers on Interpersonal Leadership and Leading Resistance Cadres. Each Primer introduces the topic and provides enough detail for you to take stock of your leadership capacity and begin your development journey if you haven’t yet embarked on one.
Understanding Radical Community. Explores what a radical Community is and how it differs from mainstream views on the notion.
Building Community Power. These chapters describe the essential components of an effective radical Community. Included are sections on cultivating the various Community components.
Leveraging Community Power. Building Community Power is critical to the drive to Protect and Resist. This section discusses how to think strategically in a Community context. Chapters discuss how to conduct an effective campaign, choose tactics, and choose a resistance target.

Fred Gibson’s interview on Resistance Radio

Here is a link to listen to the interview: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-tf8qa-9bb37

Fred Gibson is a co-founder and Core Member of Communities that Protect and Resist.
An environmental and social justice activist, he’s lived in Colorado off and on since 1970, and has witnessed the native beauty and biological diversity of the Front Range, as well as its ongoing destruction. He is determined to reverse that trend.

Fred’s worked as an organizational psychologist and leadership scholar, coach, and practitioner for over 40 years. As a result, he’s able to offer his experience to build effective leadership and organizational capacity to groups that resist the destruction of the planet. His experiences in the military, business world and academia provide perspectives on organizing and leading, from which he can draw to round out his analysis, and ground CPR initiatives.

In addition to helping grow CPR as an organization, Fred teaches courses to activists and community leaders, and writes the occasional blog post. He’s ready to work with activists and Community builders to ‘make Community happen’.