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- This Thursday! Join a free workshop on organizing urban communes in New York. Co-facilitated by 2015 Fellow, James Andrews.
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More info below:
Please join members of Point-A (http://frompointa.org) Thursday at 7:00 pm for a low-key structured conversation on starting communes in NYC.
Have we entered a new era, a sudden unexpected crisis in American politics? Or has this train been headed for the cliff for a long time and only now that it's airborne has the political establishment been forced to acknowledge that there might be a problem? Now more than ever we need to come together and work to build the new world in the shell of the old. We need cooperative, commons based, democratic, inclusive ways to organize our economy and our society. Now is the time to leave the library and head to the lab and to start cooking up that new world in earnest.
The Point A project is a group creating those social laboratories. A project of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities* it works to cultivate ambitious, engaged, egalitarian, income sharing communes in the cities of the East Coast.
On Thursday December 29th we will discuss the road and work ahead with an organizer from Point A working to form communes in NYC and an organizer from a new F.E.C. modeled commune in Washington DC.
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Format: facilitated discussion (aka super-chill workshop)
Duration: 2.5 hours
Location: 590 Madison Avenue; apops.mas.org/pops/515; look for us at a table with the event image on it, inside the street-level IBM public plaza.
Arrangement: Introductions. (Point-A NYC) Post-election context-setting. (Point-A DC) Informal presentation and discussion about rural and urban communes. (Point-A NYC & DC) If there’s interest we will hold an additional 30-min planning session with anyone ready to start a commune in NYC.
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*Principles of the FEC
Each of the FEC communities:
- Holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common.
- Assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving the products of their labor and distributing these and all other goods equally, or according to need.
- Practices non-violence.
- Uses a form of decision making in which members have an equal opportunity to participate, either through consensus, direct vote, or right of appeal or overrule.
- Actively works to establish the equality of all people and does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, class, creed, ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- Acts to conserve natural resources for present and future generations while striving to continually improve ecological awareness and practice.
- Creates processes for group communication and participation and provides an environment which supports people's development.