Eco-Swaraj ISSUE13
- Ecological collapse / Socio-economies inequities
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- raise of alternative movments
- re-affirmation of current lifestyle
- resistance movments against power concentration
- re-affirmation of current lifestyle
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- 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
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- 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
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- ‘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.
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- Resistance movment by claiming 'people approval'
- right of consent
- being helped by Justice institutions
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- 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.
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- Eco-Swaraj practice
- human
- animals
- earth rights
- aiming for social justice
- equity
- consideration at the center of everything
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- 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
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- 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.