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Editorial
WeAreEverywhere.org
Something that has never occurred in history before is happening.
People from different cultures, different belief systems and social
circumstances are uniting around the world for a new kind of democracy.
Our Comment, this time, is extracted from We are Everywhere, a new
book by a collective of writers calling themselves Notes from Nowhere.
"In the last decade, a 'movement of movements' has sprung up on every
continent, from Chiapas to Genoa, Seattle to Porto Alegre, Bangalore to
Soweto. The movement is a web of interconnected strands, of recurring
themes and discernible patterns. Autonomy. Participation. Democracy.
Diversity. The reinvention of power. The importance of creativity and
subjectivity. Access to the 'commons' whether water, public space,
software, seeds or the manufacture of medicines. And constant
questioning and innovation.
"The idea of a revolutionary movement that genuinely listens is
itself a paradox. Yet the idea of listening is central to many of these
movements. The movement is characterized by the ability to admit to
being wrong, to stop and question everything; by the desire to dissolve
the vertical structures of power and replace them with radical
horizontality and real popular participation; by the willingness to
listen, the wisdom to grow, the commitment to transform. Getting lost
'without a path' might even be an important part of the process.
Making mistakes, having profound doubt, perhaps for sustained periods
this is part of learning to walk. "So let's have the courage, let's have
the heart that lies in the roots of the word courage, le coeur, the
courage to demand nothing for us, but everything for everyone; the
courage to keep the spaces that this movement of movements has created
radically open, rebelliously inviting, and profoundly popular. For when
'we' are truly everywhere, we will be nowhere for we will be
everyone."
This edited extract from We are Everywhere published by Verso is
'copy left and can be reproduced for non-profit purposes.
www.WeAreEverywhere.org
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