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A Framework for Working Together

Mon, 2006-10-23 11:33 — diaspora confederacy
Teaser: 
We start with the presumption that we live under a global system of exploitation and dehumanization and we have a shared interest across national borders in challenging the forces that create crises in our communities. Around the world we see inspiring responses to capitalism where people refuse to be removed from their land and - on the other hand - fight for rank-and-file unionism and self-managed workplaces within the industrialization process.

In challenging multinational corporate rule, we embrace international solidarity as our best leverage against downpression and truest human expression. By inter-national solidarity we explicitly mean the cooperation between distinct, autonomous nations. We also wish to affirm the notion that a struggle for a new society inevitably means the creation of a multiplicity of societies in opposition to the current homogenization of diversity under "free" market fundamentalism.

Raised under one global system of domination, our conditioning varies greatly, as descendants of colonizers and neo-colonized children, survivors of repressive religions and vibrant expressions of barely surviving spiritual traditions, and so forth. We are proposing a means of resistance that makes the best use of the demands and prerogatives of each culture.

And, we believe that the individual should always maintain their dignity when agreeing to collaborate with other people. We reject the notion that an organization works best when everyone involved accepts the most mediocre definitions of what "we" want, what "we" are fighting for. We are not looking for the lowest common denominator, but the highest one.

We are initiating a new style of relations with our "partisans."
We absolutely refuse disciples.
We are interested only in participation at the highest level;
and in setting autonomous people loose in the world.
- Situationist International

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Towards that end, we need to hear the articulated goals, desires and demands of each participant. Please answer all questions which seem relevant and important to you.

1. What would make it worth your while to participate in this project?

2. What are ideologies, tendencies or dynamics that you refuse to see replicated in this initiative?

3. What are the arenas of struggle where you want to support the contestation of power?

4. Describe a project that doesn't already exist which you would undertake given adequate resources.

5. What support and space needs to exist for you to maintain your specific identities while collaborating in the larger organization?

6. Under what conditions will you be satisfied that the struggle is complete and peace is possible?

7. Choose for yourself a point of our argument that you consider important and develop some arguments and possible expansions of it. (one page minimum, no maximum).

8. Choose for yourself out of our proposal a point that can be criticized and destroy that position. (same conditions as above).

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