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		<title>The Intersections of Oppression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love going through my files.  I am always finding cool things.   I happened upon this recently and am only now getting to post it.  This is a great graphic image that illustrated what happens at the intersection of the major oppressive systems.   This is from the National Organizers Alliance, NOA Gathering V at Sonoma [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I love going through my files.  I am always finding cool things.   I happened upon this recently and am only now getting to post it.  This is a great graphic image that illustrated what happens at the intersection of the major oppressive systems.   This is from the National Organizers Alliance, NOA Gathering V at Sonoma State University in CA during July of 2001.  Doesn&#8217;t this just about sum it up?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/NOA-Global-Issues-Concepts.jpg"><img class="alignright size-large wp-image-2011" alt="NOA Global Issues Concepts" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/NOA-Global-Issues-Concepts-788x1024.jpg" width="788" height="1024" /></a></p>
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		<title>2013 – So far I am FREE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YES – as of my most recent flights to Chicago to do trainings around school closings and then to NY where I facilitated an Action LAB for Occupy and another strategy session with youth on student debt and Sallie Mae – I was able to print out my boarding pass and fly free of security, [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YES – as of my most recent flights to Chicago to do trainings around school closings and then to NY where I facilitated an Action LAB for Occupy and another strategy session with youth on student debt and Sallie Mae – I was able to print out my boarding pass and fly free of security, searches and escorts.<br />
For all of 2012 Homeland Security had me on their terrorist watch list. I could not print my boarding pass but had to go to the ticket agent who then had to go through a 45-60 min process on the phone with Homeland Security to get clearance for me to fly. I then had to be searched fully&#8211; 4 SSSS’s on my boarding pass! There were so many stories from being followed by security at some airports, to the manager of one of the ticket counters said – they told us you were coming, to being dog sniffed and then a blatant escort when I exposed the silliness of them following me!<br />
There is no question in mind that this had to do with the Occupy movement and the fact that we were back on the offense against capitalism while modeling alternative ways of living and means of exchange. The absurdity of it all does not escape me. The truth is the US Government is not afraid of violence, in December it was revealed that in a collaboration between the FBI the police and the corporations they even considered assassination by sniper of people in the occupy movement. They easily embrace violence.<br />
It is the ideas and practices of a radical democratic and economic alternatives rooted in peace with justice that they are afraid of.<br />
I would like to think that they awoke to a new level of consciousness in 201, but really I think that Occupy is no longer on the offense. The occupy multitudes have been unleashed and things are brewing now for what I image can be another powerful year of transformative action! Let’s keep feeding that vision and the creative processes of building a new world!</p>
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		<title>Rebecca Tarbotton, Presenté</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I carry such sadness these days with the loss of Becky Tarbotton, an emerging, visionary, bold and charismatic leader serving as the Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network.   These tragedies are hard to bear.  Why, how, it makes no sense.  Just a freak accident that leaves us all weighed down in sorrow.  I say [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I carry such sadness these days with the loss of Becky Tarbotton, an emerging, visionary, bold and charismatic leader serving as the Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network.   These tragedies are hard to bear.  Why, how, it makes no sense.  Just a freak accident that leaves us all weighed down in sorrow.  I say “we” because Becky was core to a large extended community and family.</p>
<p>We will all find ways to carry on with her passionate vision, being inspired by her dedication to justice.   Becky was working hard to build bridges between movements.  She always kept focus on the root causes and honoring the wisdom of indigenous and other impacted communities in creating resistance and solutions to the oppression and exploitation they face.  Becky did not just fight, she also won.  Bringing some justice where there was none.   Goddess why did you take this woman from us?   Maybe to remind us just how precious each and every one of our lives is and how important it is to appreciate and care for one another as we carry on our work for justice.    This is what Becky would want….</p>
<p>To learn more about this amazing woman go to the <a href="http://ran.org/becky?t=e&amp;u=36109685&amp;e=137014">Rebecca Tarbotten Tribute</a> page.</p>
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		<title>Michigan – Awakening the Sleeping Giant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pulled from my “sabbatical” in Austin when I got a phone call  from Bob King’s office at the United Auto Workers.  They  said  “ We are in an emergency and we broke the emergency glass and your name came out…can you please come help?”   I have a long history working with the UAW [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was pulled from my “sabbatical” in Austin when I got a phone call  from Bob King’s office at the United Auto Workers.  They  said  “ We are in an emergency and we broke the emergency glass and your name came out…can you please come help?”   I have a long history working with the UAW and Bob King’s team and this was clearly a big fight so it was pretty hard to say NO.     I even knew this was likely a losing battle, but I took my own advice when fighting a big fight -  Let’s  give &#8216;em hell as we go down!  And that is what we di<a href="http://organizingforpower.org/michigan-awakening-the-sleeping-giant/d37_6130/" rel="attachment wp-att-1937"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1937 alignright" alt="D37_6130" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/D37_6130-199x300.jpg" width="199" height="300" /></a>d!</p>
<p>Gov. Snyder made it easy through his dishonesty, his railroading tactics and his anti-democratic actions like locking people out of the Capitol.   A legal injunction declaring it unconstitutional opened the doors but not their minds.   I arrived this day and began a 10 day journey working to turn this around, and while we lost this battle, we woke up and turn public support and energy into action.   Gov. Snyder a very popular Gov saw his approval ratings plummet after the lame duck session to 38%</p>
<p>The Governor and the Republican lead House and Senate passed some outrageous legislation – over 220 bills passed in the lame duck alone.   He sign the Right to Work law along with legislation that will further limit women’s access to abortion, citizenship signatures in order to vote and a measure that will allow hunting of wolves.  He fortunately had the wisdom to veto one of the new laws that would have allowed guns in schools, churches and daycare centers….. Much of what the Gov. did was drawn directly from the playbook of the American Legislative Exchange Council,  ALEC and was funded by people like the Koch Brothers.</p>
<div id="attachment_1927" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://organizingforpower.org/michigan-awakening-the-sleeping-giant/d37_6166/" rel="attachment wp-att-1927"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1927" alt="D37_6166" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/D37_6166-300x151.jpg" width="300" height="151" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Good Monday Morning!</p></div>
<p>There is no question we gave them a hell of a fight.  We did actions in almost every major city across the state, mobilized to protest where ever the Gov. was.   On Monday we did a dramatic blockade of  one ramp to the bridge to Canada.</p>
<p>On a Tuesday, we took over the Capitol inside and out, with 17,000 people in a day of action.    The police mobilized in kind with plenty of Riot police and pepper spray on hand that was used more than once.</p>
<div id="attachment_1929" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://organizingforpower.org/michigan-awakening-the-sleeping-giant/img_1963/" rel="attachment wp-att-1929"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1929 " alt="IMG_1963" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/IMG_1963-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jessie Jackson joins Rotunda sit-in!</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1928" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1928 " alt="IMG_1964" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/IMG_1964-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Nice riot police protecting democracy??</p></div>
<p>I took this from inside the Capitol</p>
<p>Here Jessie Jackson joins the sit-in of the Capitol Rotunda</p>
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<p>On Thursday we organized a dramatic torchlight march taking to the streets to keep the heat on!   Huffington Post covered the <a href=" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/right-to-work-detroit-michigan-torches_n_2302924.htmlhttp://">Torch Light March </a>here.</p>
<div id="attachment_1930" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://organizingforpower.org/michigan-awakening-the-sleeping-giant/img_1984/" rel="attachment wp-att-1930"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1930" alt="IMG_1984" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/IMG_1984-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">In front of the Governors Office in Cadillac Place</p></div>
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<p>In all we generate over 225 pages of media hits. But media is not enough.  The creative direct action opened up a new space for people to feel their power.   The people of Michigan, especially the unions, have had a rude awakening that will require organizing in a whole new way.   Building a people powered movement rooted in social unionism that bridges and brings together many movements ….I’m excited about what 2013 might bring and will continue to add my energy to that fight to make Michigan’s great union legacy of direct action against corporations vibrant again!</p>
<div id="attachment_1931" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 447px"><a href="http://organizingforpower.org/michigan-awakening-the-sleeping-giant/r-right-to-work-protest-large570/" rel="attachment wp-att-1931"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1931" alt="r-RIGHT-TO-WORK-PROTEST-large570" src="http://organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/r-RIGHT-TO-WORK-PROTEST-large570-300x125.jpg" width="437" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking the streets at rush hour&#8230;</p></div>
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		<title>Making Nonviolence Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Starhawk An ecological understanding of violence sees it as a pattern of relationships that underlies all systems of domination and control. Such systems are characterized by: &#8211;the concentration of resources and the fruits of labor to benefit the few. &#8211;top-down decision making. Bosses who give orders and issue directives that others must obey. Violence [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>by Starhawk</em></p>
<p>An ecological understanding of violence sees it as a pattern of relationships that underlies all systems of domination and control. Such systems are characterized by:<br />
&#8211;the concentration of resources and the fruits of labor to benefit the few.<br />
&#8211;top-down decision making. Bosses who give orders and issue directives that others must obey.</p>
<p>Violence underlies these systems. Violence is :<br />
&#8211;the capacity to inflict physical pain, harm or death.<br />
&#8211;the capacity to punish by restricting freedom and limiting choices.<br />
&#8211;the capacity to withhold vital resources or rewards.<br />
&#8211;the capacity to inflict emotional and psychological damage and to shame and humiliate.</p>
<p>Systems of domination, no matter how powerful they seem, are unstable. They are inherently unsustainable, because to be sustainable any system or organism must be based on balanced, cycling flows of energy and resources.</p>
<p>The system maintains itself by:<br />
The actual use of force and violence. The use of force, however, is costly. No system of domination can afford to use force to control every aspect of its functioning.<br />
The willingness of enforcers to inflict violence. No gun shoots itself: a human hand pulls the trigger, a human mind makes the choice to do so.<br />
Fear: the system is maintained not because it actually uses force, but because we fear its capacity to do so.<br />
Hope: we accept the system and comply with its demands not because we necessarily benefit from it, but because we hope to do so. We might win the lottery, or become the CEO of a dotcom, or the star of a sitcom. Such hopes keep us embedded in the system.<br />
Limiting imagination: making us believe we have no choice but to comply. Restricting our thinking to their categories.</p>
<p>A strategy of nonviolent direct action seeks to destabilize the systems of control by undermining the mechanisms that maintain it:</p>
<p>Radical imagination: refusing to accept the dominators’ picture of the world. Thinking outside the lines. Daring to dream what has never been before, to think the unthinkable, and then to create it.<br />
Hope: replacing the false hope the system offers with a vision of a free, just and abundant world. Embodying that vision in how we organize, how we treat each other, in the symbols we choose and the actions we take. Marshalling the skills, tools and resources to make that vision real, and making it so desirable, so inspiring, so sexy, that the pale hopes the system offers cannot compare.<br />
When people become hopeless about improving their condition, they are no longer invested in the status quo and can be moved to take action against it. When the system goes too far, it sows the seeds of its own collapse.<br />
Courage: The more we can move beyond fear, the less control the system has over us. Courage can be found through individual faith: not necessarily in a God or religious tradition, but faith in human capacities for change or in nature’s infinite creativity. As well, there are many psychological techniques and personal disciplines that can help us learn to manage fear.<br />
Conscious choice and responsibility: Knowing that we do have choices in any situation. Being willing to accept the consequences of those choices.<br />
Solidarity: When we support each other in actions and tense situations, when we act together to protect the most vulnerable among us, when we can face the potential violence of the system in community instead of alone, we undermine fear.<br />
Raising the costs: When we cease complying out of fear, we force the system to actually enforce its decrees. This is costly in terms of money, materials, and the undermining of public support. We force the system to reveal the underlying violence that supports it.<br />
Undermining compliance: the police, the army, the prison guards are not generally of the class that actually benefits from the current economic and political system. When their willingness to serve as enforcers is undermined, the system falls.</p>
<p>To do this, and survive, we need to restrain the potential violence of the system, which has the potential to simply eliminate anyone who opposes it. The absolute violence of the system is restrained by a subtle web of forces both individual and social. The more we understand how those forces function to tighten or loosen that web, the more room to maneuver we can secure for our actions. Nonviolence as a tactic is sometimes criticized for being self-sacrificial, for relinquishing the right to self defense against the state. But all forms of political struggle require some sacrifice. Strategic nonviolence, correctly understood, can be our most powerful form of self defense..</p>
<p>Violence is unleashed by:<br />
Dehumanization: seeing the opponent as a category rather than a full human being. This is how racism, sexism, homophobia, classism etc. maintain systems of domination. People of color, punks, anarchists in dreadlocks, visibly poor people, all who fit a stereotype of prejudice are at greater physical and legal risk in an action.<br />
Perception of threat: When we feel we are being attacked, we are more likely to strike first. A global strategy to counter our movement has been to portray us as threatening terrorists, and the police as ‘saviors’ of the people.<br />
Drugs or alcohol that loosen inhibitions.<br />
Lack of witnesses.<br />
Lack of potential repercussions.<br />
Approval by the authorities.<br />
Approval of figures of respect: teachers, church leaders, etc.<br />
Group pressure: Men who alone would never molest a woman can be pressured into joining a gang rape. Once a group consciousness sees brutality or atrocity as acceptable, it becomes easier for individuals to participate and harder to resist.<br />
Perception of legitimacy by the public.</p>
<p>Violence is restrained by:<br />
Human empathy and reluctance to kill or harm. (And yes, this applies even to the police, although obviously not universally. But many studies have shown that even in wartime, the average soldier must be specifically trained to overcome inhibitions against killing.)<br />
Fear of repercussions, personal, political and legal.<br />
Visibility and the presence of witnesses and/or media. We often see the police using restraint on the street during the action, and then brutalizing and intimidating prisoners in jail.<br />
Public opinion and fear of censure.<br />
Law, and the structures of accountability that are built into the system.</p>
<p>A campaign of nonviolent direct action begins its self defense long before hitting the streets, by seeking to tighten that web of restraint, through any or all of the following:<br />
Outreach and education so that the public understands the goals and tactics of our action, and to counter dehumanization.<br />
Making alliances and building coalitions with groups that can increase public pressure and potential political repercussions for the authorities.<br />
Holding public officials accountable for past acts of violence.<br />
Planning for group solidarity and strategizing how to protect those at greatest risk.<br />
Passing laws that restrain the violence of the authorities; opposing laws that unleash it.</p>
<p>In the moment of confrontation, nonviolent self defense means we:<br />
Know what our intention is for the action: literally stopping a meeting? Building alliances? Drawing attention to an issue? The specific choices we make will depend on our intention.<br />
Convey that intention clearly to the group as best we can, so that everyone understands the reasons behind the choices we may make.<br />
Oppose the power of violence with the power of our radical imagination.<br />
Remember that every act we take is a choice, and that we have choices in any situation.<br />
Seek to undermine dehumanization, by not ourselves dehumanizing our opponents, for when we do we simply reinforce the mindset and energetic patterns that encourage violence.<br />
Remain human ourselves, staying calm, centered, and not giving way to fear.<br />
Act in unexpected ways, not doing the dance of violence and intimidation, but writing our own steps and music.<br />
Bring art, music, drums, seeds, masks, puppets and magic into confrontation to embody our vision and hope.<br />
Seek to broaden the awareness of our opponents that they are also making choices, that their behavior is not predetermined.<br />
Use humor and surprise.<br />
Know what may escalate the tension in a situation, and what may de-escalate it, and make a conscious choice about which to do.<br />
Act to strengthen our group solidarity and support.<br />
Ask these questions before we take any extreme act:<br />
Does this further our intention?<br />
What base of support do we have for taking this action? What support do we risk losing? Why is this act worth risking that support?<br />
Did we agree to this act? If not, what will it do to our community solidarity?<br />
Will this act loosen the web of restraint? Can we afford to do so at this moment? Who is most at risk, if we do, and have they agreed to accept that risk?<br />
Does this act embody our hope and vision?<br />
Do I know and trust the person urging me to take this action?<br />
Does this action embody the world we’re fighting for?</p>
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		<title>LOGRANDO QUE LA NO VIOLENCIA FUNCIONE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Un enfoque ecolÃ³gico de la violencia la considera como  una serie de relaciones que yace bajo todos los sistemas de dominaciÃ³n y control. Tales sistemas tienen estas caracterÃ­sticas: Ã˜  ConcentraciÃ³n de los recursos y resultados del trabajo para beneficiar a unos pocos. Ã˜ Proceso vertical de toma de decisiones: jefes que dan Ã³rdenes y dictan directivas que los demÃ¡s [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un enfoque ecolÃ³gico de la violencia la considera como  una serie de relaciones que yace bajo todos los sistemas de dominaciÃ³n y control. Tales sistemas tienen estas caracterÃ­sticas:</p>
<p>Ã˜  ConcentraciÃ³n de los recursos y resultados del trabajo para beneficiar a unos pocos.</p>
<p>Ã˜ Proceso vertical de toma de decisiones: jefes que dan Ã³rdenes y dictan directivas que los demÃ¡s deben obedecer.</p>
<p>La violencia le da una base a estos sistemas, y es:</p>
<p>Ã˜ La capacidad de infligir dolor, daÃ±o fÃ­sico o la muerte.</p>
<p>Ã˜ La capacidad de castigar restringiendo la libertad y coartando las opciones.</p>
<p>Ã˜ La capacidad de negar recursos o retribuciones vitales.</p>
<p>Ã˜ La capacidad de infligir daÃ±os emocionales y psicolÃ³gicos, y de avergonzar y humillar.</p>
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<p>Los sistemas de dominaciÃ³n -sin importar lo poderosos que parezcan- son inestables. En lo inherente no se pueden sostener, porque todo sistema u organismo sostenible debe estar basado en flujos de energÃ­a y recursos equilibrados y cÃ­clicos.</p>
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<p>El sistema se mantiene por medio de:</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">El uso real de fuerza y violencia</span>: sin embargo, usar la fuerza es costoso. NingÃºn sistema de dominaciÃ³n puede permitirse el uso de la fuerza para controlar todos los aspectos de su funcionamiento.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">La voluntad de infligir violencia por parte de los que estÃ¡n en el poder</span>: ningÃºn revolver se dispara solo; una mano humana tira del gatillo, una mente humana elige hacer tal cosa.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Miedo</span>: el sistema no sÃ³lo se mantiene porque ejerce la fuerza, sino tambiÃ©n porque tenemos miedo de su capacidad de usarla.</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esperanza</span>: nosotros no aceptamos necesariamente las pautas del sistema y cumplimos con sus exigencias porque nos beneficiemos con eso, sino porque eso es lo que esperamos. PodrÃ­amos sacarnos la loterÃ­a, convertirnos en directores de una empresa puntocom, o en estrellas de la TV. Este tipo de esperanzas nos mantienen presos en el sistema.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">LÃ­mites a la imaginaciÃ³n</span>: se nos hace creer que la Ãºnica opciÃ³n que tenemos es obedecer; nuestros pensamientos quedan restringidos a las categorÃ­as de ellos.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Una estrategia de acciÃ³n directa no violenta procura desestabilizar los sistemas de control socavando los mecanismos que los mantienen:</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ImaginaciÃ³n radical</span>: negarse a aceptar la imagen del mundo que tienen los dominadores. Pensar por fuera de lo conocido. Animarse a soÃ±ar lo que nunca fue antes, pensar lo impensable, y luego crearlo.</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esperanza</span>: reemplazar la esperanza falsa que nos ofrece el sistema con una visiÃ³n de un mundo libre, justo y abundante. Encarnar tal visiÃ³n en la manera en que nos organizamos, nos tratamos unos a otros, en los sÃ­mbolos que elegimos y en las acciones que encaramos. Organizar las tÃ©cnicas, medios y recursos para hacer que esa visiÃ³n sea algo real, y convertirla en algo tan deseable, tan inspirador, tan sexy que las pÃ¡lidas esperanzas que ofrece el sistema no tengan punto de comparaciÃ³n.</p>
<p>Cuando la gente pierde la esperanza de poder mejorar su situaciÃ³n, deja de sentirse identificada con el status quo y puede ser impulsada a combatirlo. Cuando el sistema va demasiado lejos siembra las semillas de su propia destrucciÃ³n.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Valor</span>: cuanto mÃ¡s podamos actuar sin miedo, menos va a poder controlarnos el sistema. El valor se puede hallar en la fe individual: esto no tiene que ser necesariamente un dios o una tradiciÃ³n religiosa, sino las fe en las capacidades humanas para el cambio, o en la infinita creatividad de la naturaleza. Asimismo, hay muchas tÃ©cnicas psicolÃ³gicas y de disciplina personal que pueden ayudarnos a controlar el miedo.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Elecciones conscientes y responsabilidad</span>: saber que en toda situaciÃ³n contamos con alternativas. Estar dispuestos a aceptar las consecuencias de esas elecciones.</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Solidaridad</span>: al apoyarnos mutuamente en acciones y situaciones de tensiÃ³n, al actuar en conjunto para proteger a los mÃ¡s vulnerables del  grupo, al enfrentar la violencia potencial del sistema en forma comunitaria en vez de solos, estamos venciendo al miedo.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aumento de los costos</span>: cuando dejamos de obedecer a causa del miedo, obligamos al sistema a que realmente haga cumplir sus normas. Esto es costoso en tÃ©rminos monetarios, materiales, y en el socavamiento del apoyo pÃºblico. Forzamos al sistema a que revele la violencia oculta que lo sostiene.</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Socavamiento de la obediencia</span>: la policÃ­a, el ejÃ©rcito, los guardianes de las cÃ¡rceles no suelen pertenecer a la clase que recibe los beneficios del actual sistema polÃ­tico y econÃ³mico. Cuando su voluntad de trabajar como ejecutantes se destruye, el sistema se cae.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Para lograr esto y sobrevivir tenemos que restringir la violencia potencial del sistema, el cual tiene el potencial de simplemente eliminar a cualquiera que se le oponga. La violencia absoluta del sistema puede frenarse por medio de una red sutil de fuerzas individuales y sociales. Cuanto mÃ¡s entendamos la forma en que funcionan estas fuerzas para ajustar o aflojar esa red, mayor capacidad de maniobra vamos a tener para llevar a cabo nuestras acciones. Como tÃ¡ctica, la no violencia es a veces recibe crÃ­ticas porque implica un  autosacrificio, porque renuncia al derecho de autodefensa contra el estado. Pero todas las formas de lucha polÃ­tica exigen algo de sacrificio. La no violencia estratÃ©gica, bien entendida, puede ser nuestra arma de autodefensa mÃ¡s poderosa.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>La violencia se desencadena de las siguientes maneras:</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">DeshumanizaciÃ³n</span>: ver al oponente como una categorÃ­a en vez de un ser humano completo. AsÃ­ es como el racismo, sexismo, homofobia, clasismo, etc., mantienen sistemas de dominaciÃ³n. La gente de color, los punks, los anarquistas con rastas, la gente manifiestamente pobre, todos los que se ajustan a un estereotipo de prejuicio son los que enfrentan mayor riesgo fÃ­sico y legal durante una acciÃ³n.</p>
<p>Â·      PercepciÃ³n de una amenaza: cuando sentimos que estamos siendo atacados, es mÃ¡s probable que golpeemos primero. Una estrategia global utilizada para contrarrestar nuestro movimiento es ser presentados como terroristas amenazantes, y a la policÃ­a como los “salvadores” de la gente.</p>
<p>Â·     Drogas o alcohol, que hacen perder las inhibiciones.</p>
<p>Â·     Falta de testigos.</p>
<p>Â·     Falta de repercusiones potenciales.</p>
<p>Â·      AprobaciÃ³n por parte de las autoridades.</p>
<p>Â·      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AprobaciÃ³n por parte de figuras de respeto</span>: maestros, lÃ­deres de la iglesia, etc.</p>
<p>Â·     <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PresiÃ³n del grupo</span>: un hombre que nunca molestarÃ­a a una mujer estando solo puede ser presionado a que participe en una violaciÃ³n grupal. Una vez que la conciencia de un grupo ve que la brutalidad o la atrocidad es algo aceptable, a cada uno de los individuos le resulta mÃ¡s fÃ¡cil participar y mÃ¡s difÃ­cil resistirse.</p>
<p>Â·      PercepciÃ³n de legitimidad por parte del pÃºblico.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>La violencia se frena a travÃ©s de:</p>
<p>Â·     EmpatÃ­a humana y renuencia a matar o hacer daÃ±o (y sÃ­, esto se aplica hasta a la policÃ­a, aunque obviamente no de forma universal. Sin embargo, muchos estudios demostraron que incluso en tiempos de guerra el soldado comÃºn debe ser entrenado especÃ­ficamente para superar las inhibiciones que tiene contra el acto de matar).</p>
<p>Â·     Miedo a las repercusiones personales, polÃ­ticas y legales.</p>
<p>Â·     Visibilidad y presencia de testigos y/o los medios de comunicaciÃ³n. A menudo vemos a la policÃ­a reprimiendo en las calles durante las acciones, y luego maltratando e intimidando a los prisioneros en la cÃ¡rcel.</p>
<p>Â·     OpiniÃ³n pÃºblica y temor a la censura.</p>
<p>Â·     La ley, y las estructuras de responsabilidad que se encuentran en el mismo sistema.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Una campaÃ±a de acciÃ³n directa no violenta comienza su autodefensa mucho antes de salir a la calle, buscando ajustar esa red de control por medio de todas o algunas de las siguientes tÃ¡cticas:</p>
<p>Â·     Difundir  y educar para que el pÃºblico entienda los objetivos y tÃ¡cticas de nuestra acciÃ³n, y contrarrestar la deshumanizaciÃ³n.</p>
<p>Â·     Construir alianzas y coaliciones con grupos que pueden aumentar la presiÃ³n pÃºblica y las potenciales repercusiones polÃ­ticas para las autoridades.</p>
<p>Â·     Hacer que los funcionarios pÃºblicos se hagan responsables por actos violentos pasados.</p>
<p>Â·     Planear para que haya solidaridad en el grupo y preparar estrategias para proteger a los integrantes de mayor riesgo.</p>
<p>Â·     Aprobar leyes que limiten la violencia de las autoridades; oponerse a las que la permiten.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>En el momento de la confrontaciÃ³n, la autodefensa no violenta significa:</p>
<p>Â·     Saber quÃ© intenciÃ³n tiene nuestra acciÃ³n: Â¿parar literalmente una reuniÃ³n? Â¿crear alianzas? Â¿llevar la atenciÃ³n hacia un tema? Lo que elijamos especÃ­ficamente va a depender de nuestras intenciones.</p>
<p>Â·     Transmitir esa intenciÃ³n al grupo tan claramente como podamos, asÃ­ todos entienden las razones que yacen detrÃ¡s de las opciones que elijamos.</p>
<p>Â·     Oponerse al poder de la violencia con el poder de nuestra imaginaciÃ³n radical.</p>
<p>Â·     Recordar que todo acto que hagamos es una opciÃ³n, y que en toda situaciÃ³n podemos elegir.</p>
<p>Â·     Buscar desarticular la deshumanizaciÃ³n, mas no deshumanizando a nuestros oponentes, ya que cuando lo hacemos simplemente estamos reforzando la estructura mental y los patrones de energÃ­a que favorecen la violencia.</p>
<p>Â·     Mantener nosotros nuestra propia humanidad guardando la calma, estando centrados y no dejÃ¡ndonos vencer por el miedo.</p>
<p>Â·     Actuar de manera inesperada, no bailando al son de la violencia y la intimidaciÃ³n, sino escribiendo nuestros propios pasos y nuestra mÃºsica.</p>
<p>Â·     Traer arte, mÃºsica, tambores, semillas, mÃ¡scaras, marionetas y magia a la confrontaciÃ³n para personificar nuestra visiÃ³n y esperanza.</p>
<p>Â·     Tratar de ampliar tambiÃ©n  la conciencia de nuestros oponentes haciÃ©ndoles entender que ellos tambiÃ©n estÃ¡n eligiendo, que la conducta de ellos no es predeterminada.</p>
<p>Â·     Usar el humor y la sorpresa.</p>
<p>Â·     Tener conciencia de lo que puede aumentar y disminuir la tensiÃ³n en una situaciÃ³n, y elegir conscientemente quÃ© hacer.</p>
<p>Â·     Trabajar para fortalecer nuestra solidaridad y apoyo grupal.</p>
<p>Â·      Preguntarnos lo siguiente antes de adoptar una acciÃ³n extrema:</p>
<p>Ã¼ Â¿Favorece esto a nuestra intenciÃ³n?</p>
<p>Ã¼ Â¿QuÃ© base tenemos para llevar esta acciÃ³n a cabo? Â¿quÃ© soporte nos arriesgamos a perder? Â¿Por quÃ© vale la pena arriesgar el apoyo con esta acciÃ³n?</p>
<p>Ã¼ Â¿Estamos de acuerdo con esta acciÃ³n? Si no, Â¿quÃ© consecuencias va a tener en para solidaridad de nuestra comunidad?</p>
<p>Ã¼ Esta acciÃ³n Â¿va a aflojar la red de control? Â¿Podemos permitirnos esto en este momento? Â¿QuiÃ©nes son los que corren mÃ¡s riesgos, y -si seguimos adelante- estÃ¡n ellos dispuestos a aceptarlos?</p>
<p>Ã¼ Esta acciÃ³n Â¿encarna nuestra esperanza y visiÃ³n?</p>
<p>Ã¼ Â¿Conozco y confÃ­o en la persona que me impulsa a hacer esta acciÃ³n?</p>
<p>Ã¼      Esta acciÃ³n Â¿personifica al mundo por el cual estamos luchando?</p>
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		<title>HERRAMIENTAS PARA GRUPOS QUE USAN EL PROCESO DE CONSENSO</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Procedimientos para las reuniones Antes de la reuniÃ³n: 1.      Elegir un coordinador 2.      Juntar los puntos de la agenda 3.      Delegar responsabilidades para cada punto 4.      Dividir la reuniÃ³n en informes, decisiones y anuncios 5.      Traer los materiales y elementos necesarios &#160; Durante la reuniÃ³n: Â·        Conectarse (juego, canciÃ³n ritual, etc) Â·        Presentaciones y chequeo de llegadas Â·        Revisar los puntos de la [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Procedimientos para las reuniones</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Antes de la reuniÃ³n:</span></p>
<p>1.      Elegir un coordinador</p>
<p>2.      Juntar los puntos de la agenda</p>
<p>3.      Delegar responsabilidades para cada punto</p>
<p>4.      Dividir la reuniÃ³n en informes, decisiones y anuncios</p>
<p>5.      Traer los materiales y elementos necesarios</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Durante la reuniÃ³n:</span></p>
<p>Â·        Conectarse (juego, canciÃ³n ritual, etc)</p>
<p>Â·        Presentaciones y chequeo de llegadas</p>
<p>Â·        Revisar los puntos de la agenda:</p>
<p>Ã˜      Establecer prioridades</p>
<p>Ã˜      Establecer roles</p>
<p>Â·        Elegir roles (o rotarlos)</p>
<p>Ã˜      Coordinador</p>
<p>Ã˜      Controlador del Ã¡nimo de la reuniÃ³n</p>
<p>Ã˜      Controlador de la hora</p>
<p>Ã˜      Escriba</p>
<p>Â·        Revisar la agenda</p>
<p>Ã˜      Encarar un primer punto que sea fÃ¡cil (ej: primero los informes, despuÃ©s las decisiones)</p>
<p>Ã˜      Dividir los temas extensos en partes mÃ¡s pequeÃ±as para discutir y decidir</p>
<p>Â·        Tomarse pausas</p>
<p>Â·        Hacer anuncios</p>
<p>Â·        Establecer la prÃ³xima reuniÃ³n</p>
<p>Â·        Cierre</p>
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<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Herramientas para reuniones exitosas</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">TÃ©cnicas para reducir el estrÃ©s</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Herramientas para resolver conflictos</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="192">Tormenta de ideas</p>
<p>Rondas</p>
<p>Grupos pequeÃ±os</p>
<p>Discusiones</p>
<p>DÃ­adas/trÃ­adas</p>
<p>Compartir sentimientos</p>
<p>Cambios de rol</p>
<p>Votaciones no oficiales</p>
<p>Evaluaciones</p>
<p>Ayudas visuales</p>
<p>Peceras/actuaciones a la vista</p>
<p>&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" width="192">Hacer pausas</p>
<p>Estirarse</p>
<p>Respirar profundamente</p>
<p>Jugar</p>
<p>Masajes en la espalda</p>
<p>Cantar</p>
<p>Humor</p>
<p>Silencio</p>
<p>Emitir ruidos fuertes</p>
<p>Compartir sentimientos</p>
<p>Hacer afirmaciones</td>
<td valign="top" width="192">Emparejar y marcar el ritmo</p>
<p>Ejercicios de escucha activa</p>
<p>Peceras/actuaciones a la vista</p>
<p>Modelizaciones (puntos de vista opuestos)</p>
<p>CrÃ­tica/autocrÃ­tica</td>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nota importante: </span></em><em>estas herramientas ayudan a que surja la individualidad especÃ­fica de cada grupo.  Sean flexibles y creativos, y cuÃ­dense de no permitir que el proceso domine el espÃ­ritu del grupo.</em></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ROLES DE LA REUNION:</span></strong></p>
<p> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Facilitador:</span></p>
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<p>Â·        Conduce al grupo por cada etapa del proceso de consenso</p>
<p>Â·        Llama a la gente (no mÃ¡s de 3 por vez)</p>
<p>Â·        Permite que sÃ³lo salga una propuesta por vez</p>
<p>Â·        Repite la propuesta a menudo para que la gente tenga los tÃ©rminos bien claros</p>
<p>Â·        Sugiere herramientas para la reuniÃ³n</p>
<p>Â·        Ayuda a que toda la gente participe en igualdad de condiciones</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Controlador de la hora:</span></p>
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<p>Â·        Controla los tiempos</p>
<p>Â·        Avisa a medida que se acerca el lÃ­mite del tiempo</p>
<p>Â·        Fuerza al grupo a negociar por mÃ¡s tiempo si se quiere revisar un punto de la agenda mÃ¡s extensivamente.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Escriba:</span></p>
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<p>Â·        Toma notas</p>
<p>Â·        Anuncia las decisiones resueltas en reuniones anteriores</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Controlador del Ã¡nimo de la reuniÃ³n:</span></p>
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<p>Â·        SeÃ±ala las corrientes emocionales ocultas que hay en el grupo</p>
<p>Â·        Interviene si la gente empieza a sentirse cansada o malhumorada</p>
<p>Â·        Sugiere herramientas para la reuniÃ³n, pausas, juegos</p>
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<h2 align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CONSENSO</span></h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Definir el tema: Â¿quÃ© hay que decidir?</p>
<p>Discutir el tema</p>
<p>(usar las herramientas para las reuniones)</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Promulgar la propuesta</p>
<p>Ofrecer preguntas e inquietudes que clarifiquen</p>
<p>Sugerir correcciones a la propuesta</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Buscar consenso:</p>
<p>Â¿Hay alguna inquietud?</p>
<p>Â¿Hay alguna objeciÃ³n?</p>
<p>Â¿Hay alguna abstenciÃ³n?</p>
<p>Â¿Hay algÃºn desacuerdo?</p>
<p>Hay consenso? (signo visual)</p>
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		<title>GROUPOS DE AFINIDAD Y CONSEIO DE POATAVOCES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pedimos a todos los participantes en lo action que formen o se unan en un grupo de afinidad &#8211; un grupo autonomo compuesto par 5 a 15 personas, que incluyo personas que consideren el riesgo de  ser arrestadas y otras que lleven a cabo trabajo de apoyo, antes,  durante y despues de la accion. Los grupos de [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Pedimos a todos los participantes en lo action que formen o se unan en un grupo de afinidad &#8211; un grupo autonomo compuesto par 5 a 15 personas, que incluyo personas que consideren el riesgo de  ser arrestadas y otras que lleven a cabo trabajo de apoyo, antes,  durante y despues de la accion. Los grupos de afinidad constituyen  la  unidad  basica  de  planificacion y loma  de decisiones de  las acetones en masa. Los grupos de afinidad se componen de personas que comparten ciertos principles, objetivos, intereses, etc. que los habilitan para trabajar bien juntos. Haz un grupo de afinidad con tus amigos, personas de tu comunidad, lugar de trabajo u organizacion. Dos o mas grupos de afinidad con valores comunes, o que quieran hacer acciones similares deberian trabajar juntos como un  &#8220;cluster&#8221; de grupos de afinidad.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Aproximandonos  a  la  accion,  los  participantes   coordinaran la accion y la solidandad en prision y  bunales  a  traves  del  Consejo  de  Portavoces.    Usando el sistema de  consenso los Portavoces elegiddos por cada groupo de afinidad seran los responsables de presentar sus planes de grupo y opiniones, y tomar decisiones dentro del Conseio de Portavoces y, de comuni carlos de vuelta a los grupos. El Consejo de Portavoces decide cual  sera el marco de las estrategias de action y de solidaridad en prision y en los tribunales. Una vez alcanzados los acuerdos,los grupos de afinidad (AGs) determinaran cual vaya a ser la major manera de participar y contribuir al exito de la accion general.  Los grupos de afinidad debatiran antes de cada Consejo de Portavoce  los puntos de la agenda y las propuestas a presentar. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A traves de un proceso descentralizado, altamente democratico y potente, los groups de afinidad realizan y llevan a cabo sus planes bien individualment para sus propias acciones o bien conjuntamente con otros groupos de afinidad en acciones masivas.  Asegurando la familiaridad y desarrollando la confianza nos cuidamos unos a otros y reducimos la posiblidad de comportamientos no dessados de la policia y/o los provocadores.  Algunos groupos de afinidad han permanecido juntos durante largos periodos de actividad politica; otros solo se reunen para accion singular. Recomendamos encarecidamente a todos los participantes que tomen un curso de ACCION DIRECTA NO VIOLENTA de prepararacion para la accion y la solidaridad en prision y en los tribunals</span></p>
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		<title>CONSENSO NO ES UNANIMIDAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DECISIONES TOMADAS CON ESPÃRITU DE COOPERACIÃ“N by adaptado del texto de Randy Schutt Â¿QuÃ© es consenso? Â¿ Se trata de un proceso cooperativo por el cual las personas comparten sus mejores ideas y se llega a decisiones superiores o es un proceso coercitivo, manipulador y que hace perder tiempo, por el cual quienes son mÃ¡s  aguerridos, tienen mayor [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DECISIONES TOMADAS CON ESPÃRITU DE COOPERACIÃ“N</p>
<p>by adaptado del texto de Randy Schutt</p>
<p><strong>Â¿QuÃ© es consenso?</strong> Â¿ Se trata de un proceso cooperativo por el cual las</p>
<p>personas comparten sus mejores ideas y se llega a decisiones superiores o es</p>
<p>un proceso coercitivo, manipulador y que hace perder tiempo, por el cual</p>
<p>quienes son mÃ¡s  aguerridos, tienen mayor facilidad de palabra, o tienen mÃ¡s</p>
<p>tiempo  disponible? Â¿ O se trata de de una fantasÃ­a  idealista donde cada</p>
<p>problema siempre tiene una soluciÃ³n simple que incorpora las ideas de todos</p>
<p>(no importa cuÃ¡n ridiculas sean) y satisface a todos por igual?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h1><span style="font-size: medium;">Consenso no es unanimidad</span></h1>
<p>Muchas personas piensan que el  consenso es tan simple  como un mÃ©todo de</p>
<p>votaciÃ³n  extendido donde cada uno debe amoldar sus votos  de la misma</p>
<p>manera. Como la unanimidad de este tipo difÃ­cilmente se da en grupos</p>
<p>conformados por  mÃ¡s de un miembro, los grupos que intentan  usar este tipo</p>
<p>de proceso  generalmente terminan  en profunda frustraciÃ³n o coercitiva.</p>
<p>Nunca se tomÃ³ este tipo de decisiones (lo que produce la deserciÃ³n  del</p>
<p>grupo, su transformaciÃ³n  en un grupo social que no cumple ninguna tarea), o</p>
<p>se lo hizo  solapadamente, o un grupo, o una persona domina al resto.</p>
<p>Algunas veces domina una mayorÃ­a, otras una minorÃ­a, algunas veces una</p>
<p>persona que emplea „al Bloque‰. Pero no importa de que manera se haga, NO es</p>
<p>consenso.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Consenso es un proceso para decidir lo que es mejor para un grupo. Por lo</p>
<p>general, la decisiÃ³n final no es la primera preferencia de cada  persona</p>
<p>integrante del grupo y  el resultado final ni  siquiera ser de su agrado.</p>
<p>Pero es una decisiÃ³n que tiene el CONSENTIMIENTO DE  TODOS porque es lo</p>
<p>mejor para el grupo.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>CONSENSO es un procedimiento COOPERATIVOel consenso es un PROCESO PARA  quienes desean TRABAJAR JUNTOS HONESTAMENTE, de BUENA FE para ENCONTRAR BUENAS SOLUCIONES PARA EL GRUPO</p>
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		<title>Clusters &amp; Spokes Councils</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cluster A cluster is a grouping of affinity groups that come together to work on a certain task or part of a larger action. Thus, a cluster might be responsible for blockading an area, organizing one day of a multi-day action, or putting together and performing a mass street theater performance. Clusters could be organized [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Cluster</h2>
<p>A cluster is a grouping of affinity groups that come together to work on a certain task or part of a larger action. Thus, a cluster might be responsible for blockading an area, organizing one day of a multi-day action, or putting together and performing a mass street theater performance. Clusters could be organized around where affinity groups are from (example: Texas cluster), an issue or identity (examples: student cluster or anti-sweatshop cluster), or action interest (examples: street theater or lockdown).</p>
<h2>Spokes Councils</h2>
<p>A spokescouncil is the larger organizing structure used in the affinity group model to coordinate a mass action. Each affinity group (or cluster) empowers a spoke (representative) to go to a spokescouncil meeting to decide on important issues for the action. For instance, affinity groups need to decide on a legal/jail strategy, possible tactical issues, meeting places, and many other logistics. A spokescouncil does not take away an individual affinity group&#8217;s autonomy within an action; affinity groups make there own decisions about what they want to do on the streets (as long as it fits in with any action guidelines.) All decisions in spokescouncils are made by consensus, so that all affinity groups have agreed and are committed to the mass direct action</p>
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