Deciding For Ourselves
Deciding For Ourselves In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. There's a growing sense that we'll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? States and…
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Deciding For Ourselves
In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. There's a growing sense that we'll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only make matters worse.
It is already happening in urban and rural communities around the world--from Mexico to Rojava, Denmark to Greece--as an implicit or explicit replacement for nations, police, and other forms of hierarchical social control. Deciding for Ourselves, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, demonstrates that "the impossible is possible." A better world through self-determination and self-governance is not only achievable. This anthology explores this "sense of freedom in the air," as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring