some activist tools, etc

[first written 2013-01-26--2134hedt]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv5n37aczVg   ~7min
Highlights from "Time For A New Game" by Mike Nickerson
Mike Nickerson, a long time Ontario activist who is in the Lanark region near Perth, Ontario, talks to Occupied Ottawa about the evolution of movements, what needs to happen, and how it often goes down, which I found very inspiring (reminds me of the story about the moth in the cocoon that I first heard in the movie 'Warriors of Virtue')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs   ~ 12min
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film
Charles Eisenstein, who has connections to the documentary film makers creating the movie 'Occupy Love' , show some of the roots of our current monetary system, the good that was originally intended, the problems that arose, and a brief synopsis of some of the ways the system could be changed to make things work better for everyone.

http://communities.ic.org/articles/1504/Sociocracy   ~5pgs / 30min read (for me)
Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution

By Melanie Rios

"Lost Valley Educational Center avoids collapse and reinvigorates itself by applying a new approach to governance combining the best of diverse models."

[edit 2013-11-23 1448h edt

I just wanted to add this amazing Howard Zinn speech read by Matt Damon to round off some of my favourite vids/ talks of all time (So far)

Here is one link of it on youtube:
"the problem is civil obedience" to unjust rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk9jUW4AC-w
]  ~ 5min

~~~~~~~~~~ other links below ~~~~~~~~~

Awakening:

12 insights
http://www.celestinevision.com/insights.html

economic hitmen and globalizing poverty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ (2min vid)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-poverty-inside-the-new-world-order/5313987

too much 'stuff' (21min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM



Spiritual Growth:

Understanding ourselves, and each other:


Maslow's Hierachy of Needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

moral stages of development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (20min vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

Getting your organization to work:

The albert einstein institution with books like "anti coup" for maintaining group mission in spite of pressures
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

The tyranny of structurelessness, or how to keep our groups fair, open, and accountable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness
(read the essay online on the authour's site, here:
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm   )

Peter Senge's 'the fifth discipine' - the art and science of learning organizations
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm

Some tools/ techniques/ strategies:

Twelve leverage points to intervene in a system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points

new tactics activist tools: article, using humour to expose the ridiculous
http://www.newtactics.org/conversation/using-humor-expose-ridiculous

permaculture ethics and principles of design
http://permacultureottawa.ca/what-is-permaculture/
[try this link instead, it's still active in 2019 it seems
https://permacultureprinciples.com/  ]



hope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzMPUKAXM7U

:)

the movie thrive, athene's theory of everything, and a bunch of velcrow ripper and scott noble movies may be interesting to people as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_eAzaTquN8