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

Serve humanity, the environment, and life itself

Counter self-centered domination-submission

Nurture other-centered compassionate humanity

Respect everyone’s equal value

Undo divisive social conditioning


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

 
 
 

Avoid scapegoating

Grow solidarity

Pursue win-win solutions — you benefit when others benefit

 
 

COMMENT

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

 
 

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

Spread democratic equality throughout society

Advance holistic and systemic transformation

 
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