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LETSystem Design Manual
This version was supported and published by the Birmingham Co-operative Development Agency.
Written by Michael Linton and Angus Soutar for Landsman Community Services Ltd of Canada.
In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism. Source: How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op | The New Yorker
Read More How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op | The New YorkerThe cumulation of a huge amount of work has gone into 14 Community Inclusion Currency Launches last week. So proud of the team and grateful for all the hard work. Source: Grassroots Economics – Launching Community Inclusion Currencies
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“In a broad sense, this research gives us a picture of how dominance, in the abstract, works to sustain itself. If you’re at the top of a very hierarchical society and are absolutely determined to stay there, then you want three things. First, you want people to fear your power, so that they’re unwilling to risk toppling you. Second, you want to occupy people’s minds—and potentially, their bodies—so thoroughly that they’re mentally exhausted and oriented more toward hierarchy and authority than toward equality and justice. Finally, you want to make sure that those you dominate are unable to meaningfully communicate—or that, if they can, they are loath to trust one another in the long run. Division is your ally. Power wants the powerless to be scared, thoughtless, and alone”
https://www.newyorker.com/…/when-does-equality-flourish
We are human we have the cognitive resources to maintain equality our potential masters can stay potential
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One of my (Gene Sharpe) major concerns for many years has been how people
could prevent and destroy dictatorships. This has been nurtured in
part because of a belief that human beings should not be dominated
and destroyed by such regimes.
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A celebration and documentation of Australians putting abandoned and disused property to good use.
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Ours is a wild and a beautiful island. But the vast majority of it is unknown to us because, by law of trespass, we are banned from setting foot on it. We are excluded from hundreds of thousands of acres of open space – of woodland, meadows, rivers and their banks – simply because ancient laws of ownership fail to recognise the importance of nature to the public.
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Humans are programmed to think we’re right at all costs. Fighting that instinct will set you free. Source: How to Get Better at Admitting You’re Wrong – The Atlantic And so much more How to Build a Life A column about pointing yourself toward happiness by Arthur C. Brooks
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From Barbados to Finland, we’ve seen women’s leadership on climate bring fair, innovative and ambitious policies.
Read More Women are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for AustraliaOur research provides no support for the existence of a wage-price spiral. That means is no case for cutting real wages to fight inflation. Source: Inflation is being amplified by firms with market power
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