Posts tagged Citizens Action Networks
If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
Can you see like a superorganism? In polarised, antagonistic times, Richard Bartlett shows us how to perceive our “macro-beings”
In Sesotho, "fito" means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”. Fito Networks in South Africa aims at exactly that
Cosmolocalism and CANs - with locals and refugees - at Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and their market garden
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
Northern Heartlands are a CAN that helps communities story their past, present and future, so they can act with confidence and power
Planet A is ALIVE! Ecocivilisation through the CAN of CANs
"Top 5 Bowie songs: come in and argue". The public living room movement generates community power through friendliness, not militancy
Alter Natives: Deana Wildgoose from the Coalville CAN, on the creativity and joy released when communities take over buildings
"Stability, knowledge rooted firmly in the real world, and a fierce drive to make things better." Community power celebrated
Glasgow's Kinning Park Complex makes all the design mags. But it took a 55-day occupation, and 20 years of pushing, to make it happen
When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism"
Coming together for a cosmolocal purpose should be soulful, fun and funny. These two event-makers show how
Paris's standing Citizens Assembly has real teeth, shaping policy and laws - and is part of a quiet revolution
Developing towns in Coalville, building houses in Grimsby, generating solar power in Bristol - these CANs are vibrant and concrete
Anitya holds out the promise of a Metaverse 2.0 - where community is primary, and the digital maps to the natural
What is a “Citizen Sensor Network”? A way of governing that rests on the storytelling and reporting powers of communities
The inside story of Cape Town Together's CANs (community action network) movement, told by Erica Inches
ALTERNATIVE UK, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, GLOBALISTS, LOCALISM, PRACTICE, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneCANs, Citizens Action Networks, community, community action network, south africa, cape town
Different kinds of CANs keep opening up…here’s a range of “Climate Action Networks’, heading for COP26 in Glasgow
A/UK 4th Anniversary: a new handbook, game and toolkit for Citizen Action Networks - in a world where CANs are opening up
