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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

Characterizing Community Series: Shared Power

Leadership in Resistance

It’s no secret that resistance to industrial civilization isn’t winning. The planet is still dying, and injustice and oppression are rampant; you might say we’re getting our asses kicked. In part, our struggles are due to the enormity of the problem, and our small numbers. We have no control over the former, but more overContinue reading “Leadership in Resistance”

Community Builders, don’t be ‘seduced’ by the pandemic. The danger of false solidarity

The seductive danger of the pandemic for communities The 9/11 disaster produced, among other consequences, an outpouring of voiced solidarity among many americans, with cries to come together to heal and rebuild. Within three days, however, reports and footage showed the NYPD and FDNY in-fighting over who had jurisdiction over what aspects of the cleanupContinue reading “Community Builders, don’t be ‘seduced’ by the pandemic. The danger of false solidarity”

Characterizing Community Series: Commitment

Perspectives on the Pandemic and Associated Trials – CPR Staff

For many, the current pandemic reveals not only the dismal state of a privatized health care system, but the cruelty of capitalism, and global damage caused by industrial civilization (note how pollution has waned and wildlife has begun to reestablish itself in just a few weeks, without the crush of humans). The Trials have alsoContinue reading “Perspectives on the Pandemic and Associated Trials – CPR Staff”