f We are going to explore an approach to organizing that is complementary to campaign-based organizing and is truly needed in order to make a just and successful transition from the current Extractive Economy to the Regenerative Economy and way of life we all need and deserve. [...] Rather than asking a corporation or government official to act in our interest, we use our own labor to do whatever we need to do to survive and thrive as a people and a planet, knowing that our actions may conflict with legal and political structures that are set up to serve the interests of the powerful. [...] So the first order of ecological restoration is to take back our labor from the chains of the market, return it to the web of life and use it to meet our community’s needs, instead of serving the concentration of wealth and ecological destruction. [...] “If it’s the right thing to do, we have every right to do it.” Ask: What does this mean for you? Our actions must assert a new right — the right to directly and democratically meet our own needs, the right to self-govern — and in doing so, expose and denounce the existing laws and structures set up to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the collective needs of th. [...] “If it’s the right thing to do, we have every right to do it.” Our actions must assert a new right — the right to directly and democratically meet our own needs, the right to self-govern — and in doing so, expose and denounce the existing laws and structures set up to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the collective needs of the many.
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