Nobody can tell you how to stop global warming
HOW TO CUT A TRILLION $ DEFENSE BUDGET
PREPARE COMMUNITIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
SEISMIC EVENTS
OR ECONOMIC INSTABILITY
We can only act where we live — in our community
POLITICS IS LOCAL
TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS — DON’T COMPLAIN, ACT
We exist for people we know
(For data systems we are numbers)
SOME OF US ARE WEALTHY
SOME STARVE
EVERYONE DIES
(That’s reality–not systematic)
SOME PAY TO PLAY
THE MORE THEY PAY, THE GREATER THEIR ADVANTAGE
Life is unequal-Death is universal
BUT ADVANTAGE CAN BE DESIGNED
Institutions are designed to exploit collective power
Communities are organized to create it…
FAMILIAR FACES ENDLESSLY CYCLE THROUGH THE MEDIA
IN OUR DEMOCRACY
FACES OF PEOPLE THAT USE THE POWER WE CREATE
We possess a medium that continuously constructs the experienced present, but no democratic process through which we interrogate that present and decide what to do.
THE EXISTING INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT CREATES THE NEED FOR A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE
DEMOCRACY
STARTS AND STOPS AT ELECTIONS
PUBLIC POWER IS USED WITH NO PUBLIC AUTHORIZATION
We’re making great strides,
BUT “DONATIONS” FROM FEDERAL CONTRACTORS
WEIGH HEAVILY IN ELECTIONS
SO, WE REWARD GLOBAL WARMING
THOUGH WE SEE THE FIRES, HURRICANES AND FAMINES
GLOBAL SCALE OF PROBLEMS
DOESN’T REQUIRE GLOBAL AUTHORITY
Global outcomes are the product of local actions
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
MONEY INFLUENCES THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST
Global democracy cannot mean one authority imposing one answer.
BUT COMMUNITY DECISIONS MAY BE AUTONOMOUS AND MISINFORMED
Elections organize our political power for a day.
Who organizes it the rest of the time?
THIS IS OUR FORM OF DEMOCRACY
When decisions are made without them, communities are left to protest.
Public power can move faster than communities can understand or respond.
POWER IS ORGANIZED. DEMOCRATIC JUDGMENT IS NOT.
CAN enables autonomous communities to set informed priorities, see the consequences of their decisions beyond the community, and coordinate where their interests and responsibilities intersect — without surrendering local authority.
POWER LIES IN ORGANIZATION
CAN is democratic civic infrastructure through which communities can understand, authorize, limit, and hold accountable the exercise of public power.
COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS
A NETWORK TAILORED FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS ATTENTION
1. Show up
On your community’s platform
2. Hear and see
Problems, ideas, concerns
Personal experience
3. Interact
Find common interests
Challenge assumptions
4. Vet information
Find out what holds up
5. Define actions
Negotiate
Challenge
Propose
6. Build consensus
A collective voice
7. Take action
Coordinate resources
COMMUNITIES ALREADY HAVE RESOURCES
What they lack is a way to connect their knowledge, interests, relationships, resources, and authority for democratic decision-making and action.
CAN converts the dispersed capacities of individuals into the organized democratic power of a community.
WHAT CAN PROVIDES
CAN gives communities a continuing process through which people can:
- establish reliable information;
- identify assumptions and uncertainties;
- examine objectives, alternatives, risks, and consequences;
- hear different experiences and points of view;
- determine what they agree on;
- authorize priorities and limits;
- coordinate resources and action;
- preserve commitments and public records; and
- hold institutions and representatives accountable.
COORDINATING RESOURCES
FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE
SAVING LIVES IN EMERGENCIES
Emergency Features on The Platform
maintain communication
coordinate volunteers
communities support others
share vital resources
facilitate government efforts
MOBILIZING COLLECTIVE ACTION
Who decides what matters?
PLAYAS DE TIJUANA
DEVELOPERS WANT TO BUILD 9 HIGHRISE TOWERS WITH 1600 UPSCALE APARTMENTS, AND A HOTEL AND SHOPPING MALL
IN A CONSERVATION AREA
Water & energy outages are already frequent
Traffic is already intolerable
RESIDENTS ARE OBJECTING
THE COMMUNITY ISN’T ORGANIZED
The community remains inside the process the development system already knows how to defeat: hearings, objections, petitions, scattered evidence, procedural delay and exhaustion.
Communities Suffer Most from Unsustainable Development
Global Warming
GLOBAL WARMING BECOMES ACTIONABLE
Community consensus drives coordinated action
Homes can become affordable.
Childcare can be organized.
Parks can be protected.
Local economies thrive
Government can be responsible
Coordinated Action Networks
NO ADS – NO PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION
ALIGNING LOCAL ACTION
FOR GLOBAL IMPACT
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Independent Action
What people agree on—right now, moving the world
Peace and safety require more than powerful institutions.
They require communities capable of informed collective judgment.
CAN is the infrastructure that makes that possible.
CAN shapes liveable communities
Affordability preserved
Community Childcare
Open space & parks protected
Community banking
Support for local enterprise
Reduce energy demand