“Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myths.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Respect everyone’s equal value

  • Undo divisive social conditioning

  • Counter self-centered domination-submission

  • Nurture other-centered cooperative action

  • Cultivate justice and compassion

  • Assure everyone can meet their basic needs and participate fully in society

  • Oppose discrimination based on arbitrary traits like skin color

  • Strengthen unions, worker-controlled cooperatives, bottom-up hierarchies, and democratic equality throughout society

  • Organize peer-to-peer mutual support 

  • Set aside the desire to exploit others for personal gain

  • Care for yourself so you can better serve others




  • Build united, national movements that persuade their government to respect their people’s will and work with other nations to control global corporations

  • Build momentum with victories focused on winnable goals

  • Hold each other, elected officials, and organizations accountable to their commitments and highest ideals




  • See how everything is connected

    • The System weaves together our institutions, our systems, our culture, and ourselves as individuals into a single self-perpetuating system that teaches people to climb social ladders, look down on, dominate, and exploit those below, and submit to those above

    • Individuals reinforce the System with their daily actions

    • The System dehumanizes everyone

    • No one controls the  System

  • Avoid scapegoating

  • Grow solidarity

  • Pursue win-win solutions — you benefit when others benefit




  • Change the System’s mission and all of its elements simultaneously

  • Serve humanity, the environment, and life itself

  • Spread democratic equality throughout society

  • Advance holistic and systemic transformation




COMMENT

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Protect Mother Earth

  • Live in harmony with Nature

  • Honor the awesome, mysterious life force 

Build united, national movements that persuade their government to respect their people’s will and work with other nations to control global corporations

  • Build momentum with victories focused on winnable goals

  • Hold each other, elected officials, and organizations accountable to their commitments and highest ideals