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Sweetwilliam Farm, Upton: An Alternate Path to Town Meeting Approval At a special town meeting on January 11, 2011, Upton residents voted by a slim margin to approve the purchase of a CPA project that just weeks before appeared impossible – the purchase of a 60-acre portion of Sweetwilliam Farm. |
Ames Shovel Shop, Easton Years from now, Easton residents enjoying a vibrant downtown may not know that they have the historic Ames Shovel Shop CPA project to thank for their beautiful town center. |
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Gillett Cigar Factory, Southwick With the help of CPA funds and a group of determined local preservationists, the town of Southwick succeeded in a race against the clock to save what is probably the last surviving cigar factory in the Connecticut River Valley. |
Benfield Farms The Town of Carlisle, a small CPA community in northeastern Massachusetts, is nearly finished with the planning for NOAH Benfield Farms, an exemplary ground-lease, mixed-use CPA project. The 45-acre site has benefitted from Carlisle's dedication to the holistic planning of the land, and the creation of separate restrictions for each use. |
Eliakim's Way, West Tisbury West Tisbury, a small community on Martha's Vineyard, has used its CPA funds to develop a number of affordable housing options for residents over the years, but its recent Eliakim's Way project challenges the convential wisdom on community housing. |
Bean / Allard Farm, Northampton In the 19th century, former slave, abolitionist, and preacher, Sojourner Truth, farmed this 181-acre parcel containing of some of the richest farm soils in the world. |
School Employee Housing, Nantucket Twelve units of affordable housing were built specifically for Nantucket's teachers. |


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Phew! Between both of my kids graduating (high school and college) and all the activities that go along with that, and then a two-week vacation with family and friends, it's been a crazy and wonderful couple months. It feels like we've been eating out constantly, which has been challenging on the pocketbook and the waistline! Coming home to a heat wave didn't exactly inspire me to start cooking regular meals again either.
My solution is to eat light and cool. Here's a meal I made the other night. Have you tried tzatziki before? It's a Greek yogurt-based dip with garlic and cucumbers that is delicious as a dip with veggies or spread on flatbread. If you want to pump up the protein you can cook up some chicken and slather the tzatziki on that too. It may be kind of an unconventional meal, but it hits the spot!
8 oz greek yogurt (I used 2% but fat free is good too)
1/2 cucumber, grated
½ teaspoon crushed garlic
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped (or ½ tbsp dried dill)
¼ tsp salt (not shown)
Pinch pepper (not shown)
Step 1: Grate the cucumber and place onto several strong paper towels.
I used an English cucumber (also known as hothouse) because it doesn't have as many seeds and the skin is thin, that way I don't have to peel it. If you use a regular cucumber, peel it and scrape some of the seeds out before you grate it.
Step 2: Wrap the cucumber up in the paper towels and SQUEEZE!
You'll see a lot of water coming out. This is an important step or the tzatziki will turn out watery.
Step 3: Separate the dill leaves from the thick stems and chop it up.
Step 4: Combine all the ingredients and stir.
If you can resist eating the dip right away, leave it in the refrigerator for an hour or two so the flavors can combine more fully.
A note about the yogurt: Using Greek yogurt instead of regular yogurt is key. If you use regular yogurt you'll need to strain it for a few hours to get most of the water out. Using thick, Greek yogurt eliminates this step and it's readily available at grocery stores.
A note about the garlic: I like using crushed garlic instead of minced garlic so I don't chomp down on a garlic bit. But if minced garlic is all you have that will work fine too. Of course you can use fresh garlic too. Whatever you have, use the equivalent of one clove.
Serve this tangy tzatziki with cut up raw or grilled vegetables, Middle Eastern-type flatbread, pita chips, cooked chicken strips, fish – it's great on so many things!

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Former Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club skier gunning for Vancouver in 2010
Monday, February 20, 2006
Practice makes perfect.
At least that's what The Lowell Whiteman School graduate Ryan St. Onge was saying to himself after failing to make the finals of the Olympic men's aerial event Monday night in Sauze d'Oulx, Italy.
St. Onge pulled his feet on the landing of his first jump in qualifying, dropping him out of the qualifying race. But the skier, who was a member of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, didn't let that wreck his Olympic experience.
"I can see every week at the events where I do well, and at the events where I don't do well, things that I need to improve," St. Onge said. "For sure, over the next four years when I compete, I am going to be practicing, working on every one of those things."
St. Onge scored just 97.35 points for his first jump, a full-double-full-full. But he rebounded on his second jump, bringing a large group of American fans to life. He nailed a double-full-full-full to net 110.40 points, but it was not enough to get him to the finals.
The effort moved him into eighth place with 207.75 points, but there were too many good jumpers left at the top of the hill. St. Onge was bumped to 16th place, one spot in front of teammate Eric Bergoust in the final results. The top 12 jumpers will compete in the finals Thursday night.
"I had known from my first jump that it was very unlikely that I was going to make it into the finals," St. Onge said. "At that point, all the negative things, the bad feelings, all the disappointment disappeared."
St. Onge said the biggest thing he will take away from his experience at the 2006 Turin Olympic Games, besides a drive to reach Vancouver in 2010, is the fun of the event.
"My second jump, I was just having fun and enjoying it, having a great time at the Olympic Games," St. Onge said. "I was looking forward to throwing a big jump, and I'm happy with it."
Overall, it was a tough evening for most of the aerialists on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, which had come into the event with hopes of qualifying all four jumpers. By the end of the night, the team settled for one out of four.
"We just made some small mistakes, and it is disappointing, very disappointing," U.S. Ski Team coach Jeff Wintersteen said. "But I'm psyched for Speedy (Jeret Peterson), and we still have a shot to win this thing. But I would have liked to have other guys in there -- we should have had them all in there."
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"That will be the biggest jump you will see in the finals," St. Onge said. "It should be fun to watch."
The top qualifier is Xiaopeng Han, of China, who totaled 250.45 points on his two jumps. Dmitri Dashinski, of Belarus, finished second with 249.34 points, and Canadian Warren Shouldice was third with 243.45.
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Esperanto (eo and epo in ISO 639), a name derived from the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first work on the subject, Dr. Esperanto, and literally meaning "one who hopes," is the most widely spoken of the constructed languages. L. L. Zamenhof, a Jewish oculist, created the foundation of the language in 1887 after working on it for ten years (see Esperanto history). His intention was to create an easy-to-learn language, to serve as an international auxiliary language, a second language for everyone in the world, rather than to replace all existing languages in the world. Some Esperanto speakers still want this, but most just want to meet foreigners and learn about other countries and cultures. Today, thousands of people use it regularly to communicate with people all over the world.
Esperanto has proven to be a good deal easier for speakers of European languages to learn as a second language than any national language (especially highly irregular and/or non-phonetic languages such as English, French, and Chinese). There is also evidence that studying Esperanto before studying any other second language (especially an Indo-European language) speeds and improves learning, because learning subsequent foreign languages is easier than learning one's first, while the use of a grammatically simple auxiliary language lessens the "first foreign language" learning hurdle. In one study (Williams 1965), a group of high school students studied Esperanto for one year, then French for three years, and ended up with a better command of French than the control group, who studied French without Esperanto during all four years.
A survey of the number of Esperanto speakers was conducted by Sidney S. Culbert, a retired psychology professor of the University of Washington, himself a Esperantist who has attended Esperanto congresses, who has commented regarding the logical structure of Esperanto: "If the world could be structured that efficiently", and whose wife Ruth, who has herself written four plays in Esperanto, has commented "It's the only hope for the world or it will be destroyed" ([1]). Culbert concluded that 1.6 million people speak Esperanto to Foreign Service Level 3 ability. This number is limited to those "professionally proficient" (possessing the ability to actually communicate beyond greetings and simple phrases) in Esperanto. This survey did not seek out speakers of Esperanto specifically, but formed a part of a world-wide survey of many languages. This number also appears in the Almanac World Book of Facts, and in Ethnologue. Assuming nonetheless that this figure is accurate, this means that about 0.03% of the world's population speaks the language, thus far falling short of Zamenhof's goal of a universal language. Ethnologue also states that there are 200 to 2000 native Esperanto speakers.
The phonemic alphabet of Esperanto has six accented letters: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ (c, g, h, j, and s with circumflex), and ŭ (u with breve).
The alphabet does not include the letters q, w, x, and y.
Therefore the alphabet consists of:
a b c ĉ d e f g ĝ h ĥ i j ĵ k l m n o p r s ŝ t u ŭ v z
(See for transliteration of the alphabet into braille. See also the external PDF file The Alphabets of Europe.)
As of June 22, 2003 the Esperanto version of the Wikipedia had 6789 articles, making it the eighth-largest language in the Wikipedia.
Angoroj (1964) was the first film produced in Esperanto. Incubus (1965, starring William Shatner) is the only known feature film with entirely Esperanto dialogue.
A declaration endorsed by the Esperanto movement in 1905 limits changes to Esperanto principle. That declaration stated, amongst other things, that the basis of the language should remain Fundamento de Esperanto ("Basis of Esperanto", a work by Zamenhof), which is to be binding forever: nobody has the right to make changes to it. The declaration also permits new concepts to be expressed as the speaker sees fit, but it recommends doing so in accordance with the original style.
However, modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento. The translation given for "I like this one", in the above phrases offers a significant example. According to the Fundamento, Mi ŝatas ĉi tiun would in fact have meant "I esteem this one". The traditional usage would instead have been Ĉi tiu plaĉas al mi (literally, "this one is pleasing to me"), which, although it differs from the English phrasing in "I like this one", more closely reflects the phrasing in several other languages (e.g. French celui-ci me plaît, Spanish éste me gusta, Russian это мне нравится, German Dieses gefällt mir).
Other changes from traditional Esperanto have affected the names of countries, whose endings have changed from -ujo to -io. Also women's names ending in -a (e.g. Maria) are now recognised although this is strictly an adjectival ending, whereas previously purists would have insisted on the noun ending -o (e.g. Mario).
In addition to these, Esperantists have formed many words to express concepts which have arisen more recently, but where possible these have indeed conformed to the existing style of the language. For example, "computer" is komputilo, (using the suffix -il- meaning a tool). Eŭro (as in the above phrases) is another good example: even though the currency is called Euro in all the European Community's official languages which use a Latin script, in Esperanto Eŭro was chosen because it better fits the pattern of the language.
Not all changes meet ready acceptance, however. For example, the neologism ĉipa meaning "cheap" has appeared as an alternative to the more verbose malmultekosta (as in the above examples), but remains in minority usage.
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Some debate occurs over whether Esperanto is the ideal solution for an international auxiliary language.Arguments against Esperanto as international language
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This section would be better presented as "arguments in favor" rather than "response to arguments against" (in which case it could be moved up before the "against"), but in order to do so it first requires some rewording.Use of Esperanto versus other planned languages
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The police, on the other hand, slough off accountability. The mother could not see the body. The chief told her it was out of his hands. Whether she can see the body is the business of the coroner, not the chief. And the coroner? He's unavailable. The police have not explained why officers thought it necessary to fire more than 30 times at a young man with a replica gun. What was so scary for the police about this encounter?
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One Day was the best book I read last year, so I was looking forward to seeing whether the film adaption (starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess) would keep the charm of the novel.
The story follows the lives Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess), starting with a one-night stand on their graduation night – 15 July 1988. The story then skips one year ahead to the same date, and the next year, and so on (hence the title), to show what Em and Dex are up to and how their friendship has progressed.
I wasn't sure how the year-skipping, which worked so well in the book, would translate to the screen. Fortunately I wasn't disappointed and the boy (who was doing his obligatory chick-flick viewing in exchange for me seeing The Rise of the Planet of the Apes last weekend) seemed to enjoy it too.
Ms Hathaway was surprisingly convincing as a Brit and I loved her version of Emma every bit as much as I loved the character in the book. Sturgess also did a brilliant job of bringing loveable rogue Dex to live.
I would definitely recommend One Day as a good date night or girls night film – it has some good laughs, some touching emotional scenes and a decent plot to boot. That being said, I still preferred the book and would recommend you read it for yourself.
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Sgt. Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma Police Department, said police received a call from a third party at about 9:24 a.m. about an armed man who had restrained his elderly mother in their home in the 800 block of South 10th Avenue.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore is about a terrorist who, as he is just about to slice off one of the nipples of the drug dealer he's torturing, gets a cell phone call from his Dad, indicating that his beloved cat Wee Thomas is feeling poorly. So our terrorist—his named is Padraic—leaves his victim's nipple intact so that he can hurry home. What he doesn't know (but we do know, because we got to see it in the play's opening scene) is that Wee Thomas is not ill, but in fact dead, having been shot in the head and then run over by a bicycle. Padraic's father, Donny, and his dim-witted neighbor, Davey, are trying to keep the news from Padraic, who has a bad temper; and so they steal another cat and paint it black using shoe polish, in the hopes that it can pass for Wee Thomas when Padraic returns.
Later, three terrorists who work for the same organization as Padraic (a fictitious band called "INRA," supposedly a splinter group of disaffected ex-IRA men) turn up at Padraic's place with a plan to assassinate him. Further complicating matters is Davey's sister, 16-year-old Mairead, who wants to become a terrorist herself, and has blinded several cows with her pop gun as a sort of practice run (she says she's protesting against the meat industry).
Eventually all of these heavily armed people arrive in the same room and the carnage begins in earnest. The body count rivals Hamlet and the gore rivals Titus Andronicus (in one scene, Davey and Donny are seen wielding knives and saws, dismembering some of the dead bodies).
Does this stuff sound like the makings of the feel-good comedy of the season? Apparently a lot of folks seem to think so, including many of my colleagues in the critical corps and many members of the audience at the performance I attended. But I steadfastly refuse to find The Lieutenant of Inishmore hilarious.
This takes a little doing, mind you, because as playwright Martin McDonagh has demonstrated time and again, he's a talented writer with a warped but pungent wit. The scene in which Padraic interrupts his nipple-cutting to take a phone call is actually very funny in its dark way—it reminded me of the "Piranha Brothers" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus in its cruel and outlandish absurdism and its wicked satire.
But two unrelieved hours of heartless bloodshed proves excessive. Inishmore isn't a schoolboy's prank, but as the gratuitous grotesquerie mounts, it becomes hard to understand it as anything else. If it's satire, then I don't know what it's a satire of; if it's a tragedy, then McDonagh needs to insert some gravity and some consequences for a cast of characters who resolutely acknowledge neither as they blithely kill or maim (or watch other people kill or maim). If it's a horror tale à la Tarantino then I suggest that film would be a much more effective medium: it's impossible to scare people by sawing off the head of what's obviously a mannequin.
If it's just meant to be good fun, well...allow me to humbly and respectfully state that those who find this sort of thing fun may want to look into their hearts a little and see exactly how such a circumstance has come to pass. The Lieutenant of Inishmore isn't funny, not ultimately; but the fact that nobody seems to be particularly appalled by it stands as testament, it seems to me, to how degraded and desensitized our mainstream culture has become.
McDonagh's writing is up to his usual high standard, I just wish I knew why he wanted to squander his talent on stuff like this. Ditto the production, which is exemplary as far as it goes. David Wilmot (Padraic), Peter Gerety (Donny), Domhnall Gleeson (Davey), and Alison Pill (Mairead) have the most to do here, acting-wise, and all acquit themselves well. And some fine actors, such as Brian d'Arcy James, Dashiell Eaves, and Jeff Binder, are earning paychecks for supporting roles in this Mission: Impossible of Broadway shows; I guess that's a good thing. Scott Pask's set, Obadiah Eaves's sound, and Matt McKenzie's music (with lots of exciting percussion to heighten the suspense) are impressive as well.
Well-executed though it may be, it's hard for me to imagine that theatregoers really want to pay as much as $91.25 to see a thing as bleak and devoid of social purpose as this. I know I'd rather wait for a rerun of the "Piranha Brothers" Monty Python episode on BBC America.


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Daughter is hoping to read Natural Sciences. A2s start this coming week.... I can't wait for it all to be over. The emotional yo-yoing depending on the outcome of the latest practice paper is driving me round the bend!! Daughter's choral award was worth free formal dinners every evensong, and free singing lessons, and some amount of cash - possibly ?100 a year/term (can't remember). Anyway, she's just done her finals so fingers crossed there, too. My choral award was for a similar amount of money (about ?100 per term I think), but the free singing lessons were with a teacher who charged ?35 an hour, and I had ten of those a term (one in the week before term started, one every week, and one in the week after term ended as we were still up to sing at various things for the college). This was in 1993-6, so he probably charges rather a lot more now... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) |
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The New Society
The prompt of re-imagining society can be very tempting. You easily fall into the trap of believing you have a brilliant societal solution that once universally applied will solve all the world's problems. The fact that we're two different people from two very different cultures, generations and countries, created an additional difficulty: we have very different conceptions of the "good life" and our conceptions of an ideal society were even farther apart. On many fundamental issues we disagreed (on issues as varied as government, capitalism, and community). As this plurality is the real condition of the world, the essay became an opportunity to deal with the main challenge in reimagining the world: the joyous, surprising challenge, of learning to warmly and creatively host the otherness of the other, conceiving together ways to co-exist in harmony. We hold our own view. But we don't want to impose one view over all the others - the view of one man, one group, one religion, one culture, one country, one ideology... . Truth is not one or many; it is incommensurable. While affirming our position, we humbly accept that no man can represent the totality of human experience. We call this attitude radical pluralism, beyond both universalism and cultural relativism. Convinced of cultural relativity, we engage ourselves in intercultural dialogue, in the search for pluralistic myths. The society of our dreams is a world in which many worlds can be embraced.
In the society of our dreams, we are no longer exposed to global forces dissolving both nature and the social fabric and generating chaos and uncertainty, and we actively resist local pressures imposing parochial, short-sighted localism. We call this localization. Localization means first of all finding a place we can call home, if we lack it, or regenerating it if we belong to one that already belong to us. We find in this place a marvelous substitute for the affiliation to abstract spaces created by the market or the state. Instead, we are reclaiming control of our own lives - reclaiming in the first place our own definition of the good life and then the ways to live it, in our own terms, strengthening all the local traditions, customs and institutions allowing us to take decisions together, celebrate our differences and reorganize our world from the bottom-up.
In the society of our dreams, we escaped from the individual prison in which we were thrown in the past by our education and social programming, pushing us towards pathological individualism. We now believe that we are persons: knots in nets of real relationships. And these nets we are - our existential condition- are in turn intertwined with other nets - in the commons to which we belong and we are regenerating and in the new commons we are creating through friendship. We are also trying to apply the rules of the commons (restricted, ruled use instead of free access) to the areas of the natural world which we all share: the atmosphere, the oceans, the forests, the wild territories still unexposed to human occupation... And we are bringing back to the center of social life politics and ethics, instead of the economy. We call this attitude commonism.
In the society of our dreams, we reclaimed the art of government for every man and woman on Earth. We disengaged ourselves from institutions that centralize economic or political power and distanced us from decisions that affect our everyday lives. More than anything, our re-imagined society is about retaking our institutions. It is based on the basic principle that institutions are tools, which should remain under the control of the user-- we will transfer our trust away from abstract, centralized institutions and into our families, neighbors and communities. Instead of looking for "happiness" in what the institutions offer and provide, we look at ourselves and those tangible people around us. Instead of looking to "invest" our money in corporations we know very little about, we invest our efforts first and foremost in our community and in those people that we DO know. Instead of public or private abstract institutions, we will re-establish institutions conceived and operated by ourselves and people we know and trust. In some limited cases, for some services or products in which the appropriate scale of operation bypass local or regional dimensions (like railroads), we will create mechanisms of accountability and control for the commons served by those institutions, which should not operate as systems and treat us as subsystems.
To reclaim power over our institutions and truly have local power, we need to re-take the following:
- Regaining power over our food - this means that instead of depending on an intricate series of corporations, highways, chemical manufactures, oil supply chains, agricultural subsidies and technocratic rules we depend on the here and now. That means that our food is grown locally, by people we know on farms that we visit. Yes, that means that we can't have bananas every day or strawberries in winter, but it doesn't mean that everything we eat has to be local. It means we have power over our food: the satisfaction of our basic needs - what we need to survive - comes from a place we can touch with our hands and not something that belongs to an institution out of our control.
- Regaining power over our water - we must reclaim water as one of our most important commons which cannot be abused by anyone because of its collective importance. It should be readily available for anyone for their basic needs - defined for example as a daily amount per person. The use of all surplus water, once those basic needs are satisfied, would be subject to specific norms, considering future needs, priorities and other aspects. In some commons, both the allocation of the water for specific uses and the exchange of water for other things or services may operate with the rules of a local market or in the conditions later described for general exchanges.
- Regaining power over our health - this means taking our health back into our own hands, starting with the definition of what it means to feel well or sick, what a disease or a remedy is, how to autonomously cope with sickness and how to reclaim the art of suffering and dying. No, that doesn't mean getting rid of hospitals or doctors, but it means freeing ourselves of institutional, technocratic control. Instead of letting the medical establishment control our health and welfare, we simply need to recognize that we may use medical institutions and services as tools that are useful for certain health problems, diseases and illnesses, but should be radically dissociated from our well being.
- Regaining power over our learning means first and foremost recognizing that learning is not something that can be given to us; it is something we must get by ourselves. It means reclaiming common spaces and conditions for learning - including schools and universities. Instead of universal norms and methods, imposed on every one through educational factories producing diplomas and drop-outs, we will re-establish learning spaces, rooted in local cultures and traditions but open to the wisdom and knowledge of others, where people of any age - from children to seniors- may find the joyous atmosphere in which learning becomes the creative activity of free people - beyond curricula and rules prescribed by centralized technocrats.
- Reclaiming power over our living environment. We still have or we can learn the capacity to conceive and create our own environment, in dialogue with nature: our homes, our streets, our parks and gardens, our cultural centers, our public spaces... The change in our relationship with the space we inhabit would lead to ecologically sensible houses and towns, with radically reduced per capita consumption of fossil fuels and increased local production and use of alternative energy, reestablishing our ecological balance with our surroundings.
- Regaining power and autonomy in our interactions and exchanges. Instead of commuting, we can work, study and perform most of our activities at a walking or biking distance from our homes. Our work will be enjoyable, beautiful and dignified, with a greater level of independence in our own personal or cooperative establishments. Without limiting interaction of large distances, our relationships would be rooted in the here and now. You would almost never find the scenario where two friends are eating lunch together but both are busy talking on their cell phones. Equally important, our interpersonal relationships will be based more than anything on cooperation and solidarity, not subordination and competition. There will be a strong emphasis on facilitating local exchange, with common spaces for exchange, farmers markets and other means to facilitate getting our basic needs locally
The Path to Our New Society
Before describing the path we imagine leads to the society we have just described, an important caveat is necessary. What we have described is very real, it is not a promised land or utopia that we can hope to someday reach. It is not an ideal we must impress upon all others or a movement we wish to proselytize. As a basic principle, we want to avoid the fateful trap of separating means from ends.
An overarching strategy (strategy is a military term) is not only unnecessary, but undesirable - a military or political regime which imposes a grand, top down plan for social engineering is the antithesis to what we want. Because of the very ideals our re-imagined society is based on, our movement must be from the bottom up, fully acknowledging that others may not share our position and initiatives.
Our plan doesn't offer a grand blueprint; it only offers humble seeds of hope. Our path finds its basis in powerful social movements and any social movement requires a strong element of hope - not the conviction that something will happen, but the conviction that something makes sense and is possible. Re-imagining society serves this basic purpose by nurturing hope about an alternative to the current conditions of the world.
In a very real sense, our re-imagined society is but an expression of ideas and practices we have observed and experienced in our own places or through the eyes of our friends. None of our suggestions is really new--most of them are already being practiced by someone, and often by many groups and peoples. What we are doing in this essay is what we think is necessary: articulating the many different initiatives. What today is a myriad of disperse, mutually ignored, disconnected, incoherent initiatives can be horizontally articulated through pertinent means of information, exchange, dialogue, encounter and construction of political bodies. Those initiatives are often threatened because they challenge existing regimes and confront forces undermining them. Re-imagining society can be seen as a tool to articulate them, facilitate the interaction between those courageously conceiving and implementing them and thus create the political force (not the political party or the enlightened vanguard) that can offer mutual solidarity and impose in the powers that be respect and support for those initiatives and policies expressing the collective will about them. In writing about a re-imagined society we are simply assuming the conviction that there are alternatives to the current condition and they are already emerging.
Since our main commitment is with pluralism and we are assuming that the implementation of our dreams will follow plural paths, we briefly describe here two of them: the cases of the US and Mexico - the societies we know better. We think that these two cases clearly illustrate the extremes of the current conditions and the paths of transformation. Other people in other countries may attempt other paths. Each of them, in our view, should be conceived in such a way as to avoid becoming a threat for others and our challenge is to find ways to articulate them, concerting and strengthening our efforts.
The case of the United States
On first glance, the situation in the US looks bleak. We live increasingly disconnected lives, constantly moving and constantly plugged in. The percentage of the population taking antidepressants just doubled to 10%, we're working longer hours for less pay, and our economy just went through one of the biggest financial crises in history. However the US is currently filled with possibility - people are increasingly fed up with the status quo and are hungering for something more. More importantly, the movement towards reclaiming local power has been growing steadily with many shining examples:
- One of the best examples for an increasing push to stay local is the flowering CSA movement. Since 1984 when the concept first took hold, over 1000 CSA's have sprung up across the US. Furthermore organic farming has increased from between 10 and 23% a year, which avoids the use of large quantities of imported fossil fuel on fertilizer.
- Increasing use of local currencies - the increasing popularity and use of local currencies is highly reflective of the increasing desire and attitude of communities across the country striving to deepen local ties.
- The constant creation of new community spaces where people have come together and reclaimed their streets and turned them into spaces for conviviality.
- People are reclaiming their work space, freeing themselves from life in a cubicle and top down methods of work.
- These are just four of many examples, in the US the path is becoming increasingly clear. It does not require violent means of resistance or radical institutional revolution. It begins with simple steps to reclaim local power. The plan of action is straightforward; it is epitomized by the Paul Goodman quote:
- "Suppose you had had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now! Whatever you would do then, do it now. When you run up against obstacles, people, or things that won't let you live that way, then begin to think about how to get over or around or under that obstacle, or how to push it out of the way, and your politics will be concrete and practical."
- More than anything, for the US the movement is simply about staking a claim and beginning to live a life more rooted in the local community. However, it would be foolish to assume that the change has already arrived. Despite the many peoples and groups who are working hard to change their own places, they are disjointed and are the exception more than the norm. They are small initiatives addressing certain aspects of our modern life. To bring about the society we have just described would require first and foremost a rejection of the status quo. It would then require a concerted push to turn the many initiatives into the norm instead of isolated bubbles. This is where the challenge comes in: to really be able to live the life we desire a certain critical mass is necessary. While it is possible to follow the principles we have collected and live by them, it requires a great deal of personal willpower, difficulty and a certain level of sacrifice. The fact remains that our society is not geared towards the local and so there are many barriers one has to overcome.
- The path to the critical mass is much more challenging than simply adopting our proposals. While there are many things that we can and must do now, such as encouraging and participating in local movements, spending more time with friends and family or in many cases the simple act of getting to know your neighbor, changing society to facilitate and encourage these things is much harder.
- To achieve that end our proposal is one among many and it is this:
- 1. Connect these local movements. There are many lessons that the many diverse movements can learn from each other and in many cases they are disjointed and each going through the same struggles and each learning the same lessons. They need to come closer together and begin intermixing to form a web that is much stronger than isolated action. CSA's, Local Currencies and reclaimed local spaces are all movements that would become stronger if they were all in place at the same time yet in many cases they are not.
- 2. Continue or begin the fight to stake a local claim, this means doubling down our efforts to keep our common spaces and strengthen our communities.
- 3. Stop the wholescale pillage of communities across the country - this range from stopping the contamination of our air, water and land with toxic chemicals, to protecting our natural environment from irreversible encroachment, to keeping locally destructive Wal-marts and McDonalds out of our communities.
- 4. Widening our movement not through promotion, but commotion and contagion - We must reach out to our friends, neighbors, relatives and those around us and share with them our own success in these projects. This isn't about going out and converting non-believers, instead it's about conversation and sharing so that they may see our own joy. Through our interactions we can begin a journey together, not as one guiding another but as a joint search for what works in our particular situation.
- The case of Mexico:
- •Most Mexicans have currently lost what remained of their trust in political parties and the government. In fact, they lack the most important democratic institution: the belief by the majority of citizens that they really elect their officers and representatives and that those elected are really at their service. In the last years any trust left in the electoral procedures and the operation of the institutions has been demolished.
- The country is falling apart. Three out of five Mexicans are now below the poverty line and a fifth has been forced to emigrate. Violence and social breakdown increases every day.
- The main reaction of the authorities before the profound crisis and the increasing discontent of the people has been increasing control of them, criminalization of social movements and militarization, with the pretext of the struggle against drug trafficking - which is in continual expansion.
- The laws are almost meaningless . More than 500 amendments to the Constitution, many of them arbitrary and absurd, have destroyed its coherence. The corruption and weakness of the judiciary system and the behavior of the constituted powers insure impunity for all kinds of violations of human rights. The intelligence community in Washington observed recently that Mexico is approaching a failed state.
- At the same time, next to this dark picture, an enormous number of initiatives at the grassroots, strengthening autonomy, regenerating existing commons or creating new commons and forming extended social movements are flourishing. There is an increasing consensus about the need of a new Constitution, in order to establish a new economic and political regime - but there is no consensus as yet about the content of the new Constitution and the procedures to formulate it. The Zapatista initiative for a peaceful and democratic uprising is gaining grassroots echo, in spite of the active opposition of the institutional left, still attached to the current regime and the electoral path. There is a popular fantasy about using the symbolic power of 2010: 1810 was the beginning of the revolution of independence; 1910 was the beginning of the first social revolution of the XX century. 2010 can be the beginning of a new emancipator revolution. Given all this, it is suggested:
- Consolidate, widen and deepen local initiatives in the whole spectrum of actions mentioned in the first section of this essay and the local, national and international network attempting to articulate them..
- Intensify the harmonization and articulation of all the organizations and networks committed with a peaceful - based in active non violence- and democratic - basically anti-authoritarian and fully participatory- uprising, for the substitution of the current regime through a constituent assembly formulating the new Constitution.
- Among the traits of the horizontal structure to use in the process and as its outcome are the following:
- At the local level, in rural communities and small towns, in barrios of the big cities, we can re-establish and operate mechanisms to define and implement common norms of behavior, freedom and mutual respect and to organize our collective initiatives.
- At the regional, national or international level we can establish and operate political bodies, in the tradition of the parliament, in which designated communal/regional/national agents (envoys, commissioners) may negotiate norms and accords with others, according with specific, restricted mandates. Those agents, ordinary men and women belonging to a common, assuming temporarily that function, will not have power of representation and any agreements should be validated at the grassroots - in the commons. Those bodies will operate as assemblies - under the principle: "We are nets/networks when we are separated; we are assemblies when we are together". Those bodies will conceive and supervise:
- Coordinating and service centers, to be operated by civil servants, for some basic services like long distance transportation, garbage disposal, etc.
- Our challenge is to make these two different paths, and many others, both compatible and articulated.
- Who is speaking
- The WE we are using in this essay is basically the we of Raimundo (19 years old, American - with roots and family in India and Mexico) and Gustavo (73 years old, Mexican - with roots and family in Zapotec villages). But we are also using a cultural we, like the we of men and women, to allude to the millions, hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of people around the world, currently mobilized to go beyond the current paradigms and dominant political and economic systems. They don't share a common ideology and they formulate their hopes in very different ways. But they are transforming the fear and uncertainty daily distilled by the dominant institutions and the many crises plaguing the world into the courage to reclaim control of their own lives. We (Raimundo, Gustavo) have been inspired by them, by their hopes and initiatives, and we smell in them some specific trends defining the direction of the current transformation. In this sense, in imagining the new world, our imagination is nothing more than a living mirror of the hunches, premonitions, hopes and even trends we see around us.
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Localism: a Problematic ProposalBy Ward, Peter at Aug 17, 2009 16:07 PM |
For example: global climate change, whether it continues or is averted or ends somewhere in the middle depends on the coordinated effort of a large part of the human community--if democratic structures are not in place to deal with the problem, as at present, then the solution with be delivered via some form of autocratic, possibly fascist, means (a prospect many seem to welcome, frankly). In the case of this issue, there has to, and will be, agreement (even if we decide to do nothing we are as a planet making one desicsion; or are letting deligates, elected or otherwise, make it for us) among everyone, even if the "agreement" is impossed with a truncheon.
Another problem, the fact culture as we find it in the present is generally highly artificial, much of it connected with nationalism and in all cases is something nebulous, often usable and always changing. Unless we tackel the problem of empowerment first--i.e. getting ourselves in a position to make the significant descisions about our lives--we won't be in any postion to tackel the problem of culture in a meaniful way. Once we are in this position, I would expect our desires to evolve very rapidy in directions that we can barely imagine at present. Whereas, when we talk about such and such culture today we are in many cases really talking about an artifact of a particular power structure, something that would cease almost as soon as the power structure responsible ceases.
I think the fear or guilt or whatever it is that causes this hypocondrial "cultural sensitivity" or relativism may be stifling our goals more than serving as a corrective against previous, indeed genuine, narrowminded modes of left thinking.


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