Theme Guide :: DIY Liberation
posted Nov 07, 2007
| Do-It-Yourself Liberation Why wait for permission? Create the world you want right now. Start by doing what you love where you live and work. Claim space to be free, feed your spirit and the spirit of those you are with. Don't ask for change. Be the change. |
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![]() Editor's Introduction An unauthorized gazebo signals a neighborhood revolution. Quote Page: Paul Goodman |
![]() Live Free The consumer life carries invisible chains. Let's make spaces where we can be free. Step off the path. |
![]() People Taking Charge They're liberating public parks, factories, parking spaces, and abandoned buildings. |
![]() Fine Art of Raising a Ruckus What does spectacle have to do with challenging empire? |
![]() It Took a Village How Miami's homeless reclaimed place, community, and dignity. |
![]() Gandhi's Footsteps Self-reliance, intention, and tradition yield liberation, top to bottom. |
![]() Schools Without Teachers What if students chose what to learn? A school for free people in free communities. |
![]() Reclaiming Our Streets How some Dutch neighbors put an old couch in the road and changed the urban landscape worldwide. |
![]() The DIY Guide Walk out, get free stuff, toss a flower bomb. Simple steps for day-to-day liberation. Go ahead: free your world. |
![]() Zen, Busking & Anarchy The cello as a tool for liberation. |
![]() Taste Freedom at Home Egalitarian life in the city. |
![]() Hot for Burning Man Pyrotechnic orgy or initiation of a new era? |
![]() Building Autonomy, One Co-op at a Time Thousands worked on each other's homes and in the process became political activists. |
![]() Don't Fall in Love With the Guitarist. Be the Guitarist! The ladiezzz take up where the grrrls left off. |
![]() Pirates on the Open Airwaves Corporate-speak or the people's airwaves. Meet the buccaneers of bandwidth. |
![]() Celebrating Critical Mass Cycling reopens public space. Rev. Billy on bikes and free speech. |
![]() MySpace is a Free Space The MySpace music revolution puts fans and artists side by side. |
![]() Compost Toilets & Self-Rule End your dependence on the sewage empire. Go ecological! |
![]() World Social Forum at Your Doorstep It's happening everywhere this year. |
![]() Can We Talk? Conversation Cafés show us how. Guidelines for a conversation. |
![]() Discussion Guide Conversation starters and action ideas on liberating your spaces. |
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