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
But we can only act where we live
AND ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
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
(That’s the system–working as designed)
Institutions are organizations that exercise collective power.
Communities are not organized to exercise collective power
TODAY, OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS INCOMPLETE
Elections confer public authority to representatives but when they do not inform or consult constituents, that is not government by the people
Democratic judgment requires its own integrated infrastructure:
evidence → civic education → deliberation → public authorization → coordinated action → measured consequences → accountability
We have made great strides in comparison to other primates
At global scale, we should expect that networks of autonomous communities would not create one centralized world authority.
They couldn’t because there are so many variables in point of view. We would expect them to create an organized human capacity to examine shared consequences, establish independently authorized priorities, and coordinate across geopolitical systems before institutional decisions produce irreversible realities.
But our system is rewarding some of us for global warming
PLAY NOW, LET US PRAY FOR OTHERS
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL IS THE GATEWAY
Global democratic coordination cannot depend on one authority imposing a single answer
WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION
Local democratic coordination cannot depend on one authority imposing a single answer
ThIS IS OUR FORM OF DEMOCRACY
Communities can only act in protest
Without organization, public power can act faster than the public can understand what is being done,
We have highly integrated organization for exercising power without comparable organization for the democratic judgment necessary for peace and safety.
CAN enables autonomous communities to establish their own informed priorities while making the consequences of their decisions visible to others. Communities can then coordinate where their interests and responsibilities intersect without surrendering local authority.
Power lies in organization. CAN is integrated democratic civic infrastructure through which communities organize the capacity to understand, authorize, limit, and hold accountable the exercise of public power.
COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS
A NETWORK TAILORED FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
WHEN PROBLEMS ARISE
1. You show up online
On your community’s platform
2. Hear and see
Problems, ideas, concerns
Personal experience
3. Interact
Establish mutual interests
Test what holds up
(rewarding activities)
4. Listen
What people agree on—
Vet information
5. Define Actions
Negotiate
Challenge
Propose
6. Build Consensus
Collective voice
7. Take Action
Coordinate resources
Institutions are organized to exercise power.
Communities are not comparably organized to exercise democratic judgment over that power.
The problem is that communities lack resources. Their resources, knowledge, interests, and authority are not connected through an integrated mechanism for democratic collective 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