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
POLITICS IS LOCAL
We know what we can trust about people we know.
References are needed to trust those we don’t know
WE TEND TO TRUST WEALTHY PEOPLE
AND DISTRUST THE POOR
Power gets mistaken for knowledge and success gets mistaken for legitimacy…
PAY TO PLAY IS NORMALIZED
people prefer to believe rewards generally go to those who deserve them
if banks, universities, media, and other elites take someone seriously, others do too.
SO ADVANTAGE CAN BE DESIGNED
Institutions are organized to project legitimacy
Communities must be organized to produce it
FACES ENDLESSLY CYCLING IN THE MEDIA
PROJECTING WEALTH AND POWER
BUT IN A DEMOCRACY
PEOPLE ARE THE SOURCE OF POWER
THE PRESENT IS CONTINUOUSLY CREATED IN MEDIA
CONTENT IS THAT IS CURATED AND PRODUCED
BY THOSE WHO INTEND TO MANIPULATE PERCEPTIONS
ELECTIONS ARE AUTHORIZING PUBLIC POWER
WITHOUT LIMITATION
WE ARE GIVING BLANK CHECKS
TO THOSE WHO ARE ELECTED
EFFECTIVELY WITHOUT SEPARATION OF POWERS
OUR INFORMATION SYSTEM HAS EVOLVED
DEFEATING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL GUARDRAILS
OUR VAUNTED 2-PARTY SYSTEM
HAS BEEN DEFEATED BY CAMPAIGN FINANCE
THE DEMOCRATIC FAILURE HAS BECOME A SAFETY RISK
WE ARE REWARDING GLOBAL WARMING
WE MUDDLE ONWARD IN FUTILE WARS
DESPITE GENOCIDE, WILD FIRES, HURRICANES AND FAMINES
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
DOESN’T MEAN GLOBAL AUTHORITY
Global outcomes are the product of local actions
MOVING FROM “THIS IS HAPPENING”
to:
WHAT DO WE WANT OUR GOVERNMENT TO DO?
THIS IS OUR FORM OF DEMOCRACY
When decisions are made without public input, communities are left to protest.
Public power moves much faster than communities can understand or respond.
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
DOESN’T MEAN GLOBAL AUTHORITY
Global outcomes are the product of local actions
THE MEDIUM MUST REFLECT WHAT AND WHO WE ARE
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
FOR MEDIA TO REFLECT WHAT AND WHOM WE ARE
Democracy cannot mean one authority imposing one answer.
TO BE REAL REAL, COMMUNITY CONSENSUS MUST BE INCLUSIVE
Autonomous communities must be able to set their own priorities in the context of global objectives.
COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS (CAN)
ON THE CUSP OF INTENTIONALLY DESIGNING THE MEDIUM
Not merely creating better content,
designing the information environment in which people
can understand reality, form their own judgment, and decide what to do.
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.
CAN PROVIDES
INFRASTRUCTURE
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.
LIFE-SAVING COORDINATION FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Emergency Features on The Platform
maintain communication
coordinate volunteers
communities support others
share vital resources
facilitate government efforts
CAN SUPPORTS 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 must organize sustainable development
Global Warming
MAKING GLOBAL COOLING 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