Concept: Geoactivism
Definition: ... a sustained effort to halt the destruction of the biosphere through common actions against exploitative, extractive, and polluting human activities.
Focus: Processes
Socially and ecologically transformative processes: democratization; ecosocialization; decentralization; deceleration; confederalization; communalization; de-automobilization; and ecosystem restoration.
Action: Locally Rooted
If we are to achieve a sustainable future, all revolutionary processes, short-term as well as long-term, must be locally rooted, enabling everyone to contribute to improved social and ecological conditions.
Celebration: Month of Community
Let June (or December) become a month of renewal, an opportunity for neighborhood transformation, a recurrent celebration of our common habitat; let this month become a starting point for a sustainable society.
Focus: Neighborhoods
Locally, regionally, and globally interconnected neighborhoods: human-powered; sun-powered; toxin-free; soil-aware; water-aware; food-producing; creative; and ecosystem-based.
Action: Creative and Democratic
Sustainable transformation is radically creative and radically democratic, something that we do together – in person; a sustainable society can only be achieved if it is rooted in self-creating and self-governing communities.
Celebration: Month of Slowness
Let December (or June) become a month of awareness and reflection, a period of social deceleration, a recurrent opportunity to imagine a different reality; let this month become a starting point for love for the planet.
Reflection: The Case for Geoactivism
Trapped within the framework of commodity exchange, every reformist attempt to mitigate or adapt to ongoing planetary changes such as global warming, ocean acidification, deforestation, freshwater depletion ...
Poem: Fire
When the forests are burning, the glaciers are melting, and the “global leadership” is “restructuring”, it is time to reclaim power, time to stop the arsonists, and time to make sustainability a reality.
Reflection: Rethinking Creativity
There is no longer any room for doubt or hesitation: as the planetary crisis deepens, it is more clear than ever that we must make this century a turning point, indeed, make a historical shift away from an unsustainable ...
Poem: Violence
If violence and threats of violence define our way of life, reproducing structural inequality, anti-violence must be about uprooting every attempt to silence, every attempt to normalize.
Reflection: An Ecological Society
The ongoing commodification of everything held in common (public health and public education are striking examples) has gone so far that it has become a matter of survival to be in charge of our social ...
Poem: Solidarity
What? Solidarity that transcends the barriers between urban and rural areas, moves beyond local and regional scales, includes other species, and contributes to an equal and sustainable society.
Reflection: Starting a Revolution
The immediate past is not the best guidebook to the future. Why learn from wasteful, profit-driven practices, when we can learn from the patterns and processes of nature, from water, trees, and honey bees? Why let agribusiness ...
Poem: Mobility
Impervious surfaces, pollution, destroyed habitats; death systems, death systems, death systems abound; irreversible moves till life ends; gone are the mutual relations of cohabitants; gone are the flowers now.