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<h1>Eco-Swaraj</h1> | |||
* Ecological collapse / Socio-economies inequities | |||
⇩ | |||
* raise of alternative movments | |||
** re-affirmation of current lifestyle | |||
*** resistance movments against power concentration | |||
⇩ | |||
* common features in those initiavives = emergence of general set of values/principles | |||
* forming a broad ideological framework based on the principle of autonomy: | |||
# self autonomy | |||
# self governance | |||
# self determination of indigneous people | |||
⇩ | |||
* The term swaraj, simplistically translated as self-rule decision-making in local assemblies: | |||
# self-rule system (from India with national independance) | |||
# individual + community + autonomy / freedom | |||
# social and environmental responsibiliy | |||
⇩ | |||
*‘gram sabha’ | |||
* village assembly | |||
* decision-making organ | |||
* consensue principle adopted ⇨ vote system. | |||
* The villagers not allow | |||
# any government agency or politicians to take decisions on their behalf | |||
# nor may a village or tribal chief do so on his/her own. | |||
⇩ | |||
* Resistance movment by claiming 'people approval' | |||
** right of consent | |||
** being helped by Justice institutions | |||
⇩ | |||
* Dalit women's oppression/exploitation | |||
** Remarkable revolution in | |||
# sustainable farming | |||
# alternative media | |||
# collective mobilisation | |||
# created grain banks for the poor to access | |||
# linked farmer producers to nearby consumers | |||
# ...food sovereignty and security | |||
*** by generating their own media content ⇨ create their own narrative. | |||
⇩ | |||
* Eco-Swaraj practice | |||
# human | |||
# animals | |||
# earth rights | |||
# aiming for social justice | |||
# equity | |||
## consideration at the center of everything | |||
⇩ | |||
So: | |||
* Ecological wisdom and resilience | |||
** humanity as part of nature / and in harmony with it | |||
* Social well-being and justice | |||
** equity in socio-economic and political entitlements / collective & individual freedoms | |||
* Direct or radical political democracy (every human can be part of decision making/government mainly | |||
** involved into facilitating connections of peaple/initiatives | |||
* Economic democracy (prosumers's control over their own economy / local business as main | |||
** strenght without excluding outsiders / minimized private property / not looking for expension but well-being (anti-capitalistic) | |||
* Cultural and knowledge plurality | |||
** transmission of knowledge/processes to public domain, to everyone | |||
⇩ | |||
* RED Societies foundation | |||
** Sort of structured / systematic version of eco-swaraj | |||
# equality/equity | |||
# respectforallLifes | |||
# diversity/pluralism | |||
# balancing collective/individual | |||
* RED/ Eco-Swaraj | |||
** evolving worldview as an alternative to | |||
# capitalism | |||
# stateism | |||
# patriarchy | |||
# state repression | |||
# corporate impunity | |||
# climate crisis | |||
# inequality | |||
# racial | |||
# ethnic conflicts | |||
# landgrabbing | |||
# dispossession | |||
# displacement of communities | |||
# and other structures of inequity and exploitation for the sake of development. |
Revision as of 12:24, 4 October 2020
Eco-Swaraj
- Ecological collapse / Socio-economies inequities
⇩
- raise of alternative movments
- re-affirmation of current lifestyle
- resistance movments against power concentration
- re-affirmation of current lifestyle
⇩
- common features in those initiavives = emergence of general set of values/principles
- forming a broad ideological framework based on the principle of autonomy:
- self autonomy
- self governance
- self determination of indigneous people
⇩
- The term swaraj, simplistically translated as self-rule decision-making in local assemblies:
- self-rule system (from India with national independance)
- individual + community + autonomy / freedom
- social and environmental responsibiliy
⇩
- ‘gram sabha’
- village assembly
- decision-making organ
- consensue principle adopted ⇨ vote system.
- The villagers not allow
- any government agency or politicians to take decisions on their behalf
- nor may a village or tribal chief do so on his/her own.
⇩
- Resistance movment by claiming 'people approval'
- right of consent
- being helped by Justice institutions
⇩
- Dalit women's oppression/exploitation
- Remarkable revolution in
- sustainable farming
- alternative media
- collective mobilisation
- created grain banks for the poor to access
- linked farmer producers to nearby consumers
- ...food sovereignty and security
- by generating their own media content ⇨ create their own narrative.
⇩
- Eco-Swaraj practice
- human
- animals
- earth rights
- aiming for social justice
- equity
- consideration at the center of everything
⇩ So:
- Ecological wisdom and resilience
- humanity as part of nature / and in harmony with it
- Social well-being and justice
- equity in socio-economic and political entitlements / collective & individual freedoms
- Direct or radical political democracy (every human can be part of decision making/government mainly
- involved into facilitating connections of peaple/initiatives
- Economic democracy (prosumers's control over their own economy / local business as main
- strenght without excluding outsiders / minimized private property / not looking for expension but well-being (anti-capitalistic)
- Cultural and knowledge plurality
- transmission of knowledge/processes to public domain, to everyone
⇩
- RED Societies foundation
- Sort of structured / systematic version of eco-swaraj
- equality/equity
- respectforallLifes
- diversity/pluralism
- balancing collective/individual
- RED/ Eco-Swaraj
- evolving worldview as an alternative to
- capitalism
- stateism
- patriarchy
- state repression
- corporate impunity
- climate crisis
- inequality
- racial
- ethnic conflicts
- landgrabbing
- dispossession
- displacement of communities
- and other structures of inequity and exploitation for the sake of development.