THE IDEA
A Rubik’s cube is not solved in a linear fashion from one side of the cube to the next, but rather it requires a broader and more nuanced view; it calls for a harmony of moves that simultaneously prepare all sides to coalesce in order to eventually realize its unity.
This is the perspective that is needed to address the global issues of the world today. The recent efforts in North Dakota by indigenous communities were one of gaining and exercising their sovereignty; we must adopt a similar objective, a vision for winning and transferring power to the people. Without this vision, conventional protests and their exhausted tactics become the equivalent of throwing a party to boost the morale of movements on an already losing front.
As a result, we’re mobilizing around a new insight for realizing social change. Instead of throwing parties, we’re starting one.
The moment is ripe - the air is virtually buzzing with energy for something spectacular, and lightning is about to strike. If a new movement spontaneously erupted in this context and was able to effectively convey this feeling to the People by actualizing a revolutionary new vision for society, it may be able to garner enough support in time to swing the upcoming elections in its favour.
The seeds of such a movement have already begun sowing themselves; with a number of movement-parties springing up across the world and now even winning power, with Podemos in Spain, The Pirate Party in Iceland, The Aam Aadmi Party in India, and the pan-European movement known as Diem25.
This is the perspective that is needed to address the global issues of the world today. The recent efforts in North Dakota by indigenous communities were one of gaining and exercising their sovereignty; we must adopt a similar objective, a vision for winning and transferring power to the people. Without this vision, conventional protests and their exhausted tactics become the equivalent of throwing a party to boost the morale of movements on an already losing front.
As a result, we’re mobilizing around a new insight for realizing social change. Instead of throwing parties, we’re starting one.
The moment is ripe - the air is virtually buzzing with energy for something spectacular, and lightning is about to strike. If a new movement spontaneously erupted in this context and was able to effectively convey this feeling to the People by actualizing a revolutionary new vision for society, it may be able to garner enough support in time to swing the upcoming elections in its favour.
The seeds of such a movement have already begun sowing themselves; with a number of movement-parties springing up across the world and now even winning power, with Podemos in Spain, The Pirate Party in Iceland, The Aam Aadmi Party in India, and the pan-European movement known as Diem25.
This is the new insight that can allow us to manifest the egalitarian society that is needed for the survival of the species. The strategy is mundialization, the tactic is a World Movement-Party, the tool is a network of local Community Alliances that map community needs, mobilize citizens to meet them, and establish ‘Citizen Election Platforms' in order to support delegates of the movement to run for office on a unified agenda.
Imagine a movement that wins power in multiple countries as a World Party by establishing a global network of Community Alliances with the express purpose of empowering communities to become self-sufficient through transferring power to the people. A possible scenario for how this can happen is described in the following quote:
Imagine a movement that wins power in multiple countries as a World Party by establishing a global network of Community Alliances with the express purpose of empowering communities to become self-sufficient through transferring power to the people. A possible scenario for how this can happen is described in the following quote:
“As it grew stronger, the World party lost its early reticence to move from talk to action. It adopted a strategy of “mundialization,” which meant, in simplest terms, winning or seizing power in every country where it had the opportunity and then declaring the country a component province of the nascent world commonwealth. If victory were possible in free parliamentary elections, well and good. If countries had no authentic electoral system, or if the system had been suspended because of the Catastrophe, the party did not hesitate to organize armed revolutions, paralyzing general strikes, or coups d’état. In countries with free elections where the chances of the World Party to win power were poor, the party formed an alliance with the least reactionary elements on the political spectrum and worked indefatigably to convert its new allies to the cause."
- W. Warren Wagar’s speculative novel A Short History of the Future
Let's pose a simple question: Who decides? When the current administration recently abandoned their efforts for electoral reform - something that most of the country supported - who had the power to make that decision? When new pipelines are built despite a contradictory platform of environmental protection, did the electorate who voted for that platform get to make that decision? What about the indigenous communities whose land is being exploited? It’s time we use this question to produce an epiphany that spreads like a contagion: We decide.
But just as a Rubik’s cube requires a synergy of simultaneous moves on all sides, such a vision of global democracy for the people that can allow us to survive can only be achieved in unison with a unified vision for the world based on equity, sustainability, and democracy.
But just as a Rubik’s cube requires a synergy of simultaneous moves on all sides, such a vision of global democracy for the people that can allow us to survive can only be achieved in unison with a unified vision for the world based on equity, sustainability, and democracy.
This is why it is time to employ these strategies and tactics through launching a movement-party that explicitly starts from both an international and local basis of going from one election to the next; spreading from community to community using Community Alliances to build its infrastructure, mobilize support, and gather resources in both rural areas and urban.
This is a perspective that goes beyond divisions of right and left, it is about giving power to the people through a unified agenda for democracy that penetrates every functioning institution across the world.
Citizen’s can be given direct influence over their government through greater democracy and policies such as participatory budgeting, civilian-led policing, and other community-based alternatives for local and municipal administration. Each person can also be given economic security by providing a universal basic dividend as well as creating universal programs for education, health-care, and child-care, and meeting other necessities such as affordable housing through alternative housing models.
Finally, communities can become self-sufficient and sustainable by utilizing sustainable alternatives such as solar energy, hydroponic farming, and wireless communication. Employment can be created through encouraging, supporting, and investing in local consumer/producer cooperatives, platform cooperatives, and social enterprises that can meet community needs using those alternatives based on the unified community visions of any given region.
Our challenge is to mobilize support by locating and identifying activists to start to reorient their efforts around this vision, as well as formulate a model for complex democratic decision-making that can be utilized globally to access the structures of power.
If you feel as we do the global context of urgency and the ongoing convergence of economic destruction, political totalitarianism, and climate catastrophe, help us find the others.
It's time we took over.
This is a perspective that goes beyond divisions of right and left, it is about giving power to the people through a unified agenda for democracy that penetrates every functioning institution across the world.
Citizen’s can be given direct influence over their government through greater democracy and policies such as participatory budgeting, civilian-led policing, and other community-based alternatives for local and municipal administration. Each person can also be given economic security by providing a universal basic dividend as well as creating universal programs for education, health-care, and child-care, and meeting other necessities such as affordable housing through alternative housing models.
Finally, communities can become self-sufficient and sustainable by utilizing sustainable alternatives such as solar energy, hydroponic farming, and wireless communication. Employment can be created through encouraging, supporting, and investing in local consumer/producer cooperatives, platform cooperatives, and social enterprises that can meet community needs using those alternatives based on the unified community visions of any given region.
Our challenge is to mobilize support by locating and identifying activists to start to reorient their efforts around this vision, as well as formulate a model for complex democratic decision-making that can be utilized globally to access the structures of power.
If you feel as we do the global context of urgency and the ongoing convergence of economic destruction, political totalitarianism, and climate catastrophe, help us find the others.
It's time we took over.
YOUR MISSION |
Here’s your mission:
In the year of transformation, 28 days before the General Elections, activists will takeover public polling stations to demand electoral reform through direct political power for the people; in the months prior, movement members will get hired as poll workers and fill every position in polling stations everywhere; then, on election day we will assemble at those polling stations, ones that we have captured and Artified with the symbol of the Unified Assembly to swing the election towards our movement for the true People’s democracy. We will not accept as legitimate any election that does not give the People sovereignty, we will courageously assert our movement as the true Will of the People and achieve revolution. Over those 28 days, newly initiated members of the Unified Assembly from around the world will convene at The Global People’s Convention to craft a Universal Constitution; where activists will actualize a global governing apparatus that can direct state power horizontally, and in unison, to solve global challenges such as climate change and economic inequality. Around the world, our members will meet our call for mundialization — realizing a universal global democracy — by sending resources to every new election, and achieving greater victories each time to begin negotiating with ourselves on the task of universal sovereignty. But this vision requires focus to be realized. Just as in 1944 the Bretton Woods Conference designed the global post-war economy and ushered in a new age, we will come together to create a new form of Universal Governing that can solve our global challenges and realize our true potential. Could our movement become Prime Minister? President? It’s time we introduce a little rebellion. As activists form Community Alliances, they will achieve access to sovereignty itself; each meeting of their local assembly will mine support for their project in the form of crypto-currency. They will use Sortition Flash-Mobs to choose delegates by drawing lots from self-nominated movement members. These delegates will run as candidates in the upcoming elections, as well represent the movement at the Global People’s Convention to help craft a Universal Constitution. Together, through participatory budgeting, Community Alliances will allocate the currency they gather to the electoral/movement efforts in need of most support. Acting in sovereignty, they will arrive to the world as Citizens of the Unified Assembly and create a portal to a new reality. Send your revelations to @ProjectAlterCAN on Twitter or [email protected]. Psssssst — Want to kickoff the revolution? Host the Global People’s Convention! Declare your city as the revolutionary capitol of the world and send us your organizing vision! If you’re an artist of any kind, help us in establishing a unified communication strategy through visualizing our platform and organizing a global street art network. In the same way that a big splash doesn’t make a tsunami, scattered actions don’t make a movement. It’s time we united to unleash the creative spirit of humanity by becoming the founders of a planetary People’s takeover. We believe that if you’re reading this, we share something; a common heritage, one more specific than our humanity: a lineage. Our belief is that we are the newest realizations of this ever developing movement towards greater liberation for all.The context of our collective urgency sees two outcomes for our species, extinction or evolution. And it is through tapping into this mythos that a simple realization rises to the surface: we are inevitable. Most importantly however, let’s acknowledge the reality of our challenge and get to work. We’re in the midst of the greatest change humanity has ever experienced. What’s your part? To the Basement Dwellers, Project ALTER Spread this concept package to activate anyone else you think is ready to vibe with us: thealternativealliance.weebly.com/ Strategy Breifing: medium.com/@whatisprojectalter/a-prophecy-for-the-revolution-7a5141b2fc0?source=friends_link&sk=d08f6f0396d05c5854a15ca89ee0e6db Find out more about some of the concepts referenced here: Brand New Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvGtVu8gmtg&index=35&list=PLEjX0_REGvlZQkOTF1Oj-BnM8fMkdF0mr http://brandnewcongress.org/home DiEM25: diem25.org/manifesto-short-version/ The End of Protest: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-end-of-protest-micah-white/9780345810045-item.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhs6RyOMfUY |