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Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid

Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid

Matthew Porges

Matthew Porges

Writer and researcher based in Brussels, Belgium more

Dayton Martindale

Dayton Martindale

Assistant editor at In These Times more

Katie Horvath

Katie Horvath

Community organizer more

Mason Herson-Hord

Mason Herson-Hord

Organizer for Motor City Freedom Riders more

John Michael Colón

John Michael Colón

Writer based in Brooklyn, New York more

Community & Place Democracy & Governance
Sketches out a flexible roadmap for scaling up participatory democracy, in a creative synthesis of a number of different strands of radical thought.

—Naomi Klein

In this first place at-large entry in our Next System Essay Competition, members of the Symbiosis Research Collective present a vision of how to expand the networks of “dual power” from the rebel city towards the system level, to “organize practical community institutions of participatory democracy and mutual aid that can take root, grow, and gradually supplant the institutions that now rule ordinary people’s lives.” 

 

Matthew Porges

Matthew Porges

Writer and researcher based in Brussels, Belgium more

Dayton Martindale

Dayton Martindale

Assistant editor at In These Times more

Katie Horvath

Katie Horvath

Community organizer more

Mason Herson-Hord

Mason Herson-Hord

Organizer for Motor City Freedom Riders more

John Michael Colón

John Michael Colón

Writer based in Brooklyn, New York more

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