Just Getting Together

Common action is better when more common.

We can learn more, do better, and enjoy the learning and doing. We can each be our own Queen or King and be sovereigns together as much as we want. We can pleasantly beat them at our own game. We can learn to use our own Magna Carta and Bill of Rights and better enjoy our days.

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Governance, Very Briefly

Not wrong and not very appetizing  

1. Understand what governance is first

 

To govern is to decide on what is morally acceptable and what is not within our community. It is to create boundaries to acceptable behaviour.

This will involve deciding on 'laws' and then enforcing them.

The person or group of people who decide on the laws of the community hold the power - because they hold the power to punish.

                Look around this sight and you may find something more attractive in governance. Even another reading or two of the above can offer some real attraction.

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News: Politics isn't always nice.

This is why politics is sometimes used as a dirty word. Still it can be instructive. It is often best to keep one's political activity local, but it is okay to see what is going on nationally.

Teach, Learn, and Act

Civic self care is an ongoing activity:

                The hope of our people to be organizing for our economic and social well-being survives among a significant number of us. It took a turn for the worse when trade and worker unionists failed to teach their children of social organization and responsibility for self-governance. Educational institutions did not take up the slack nor did most other persons or institutions. Still with some knowledge of cooperation, some common sense, a bit of our history and our ability to listen, learn, and share, here we are.

Citizens:

                Many members of unions and other citizens had not learned enough about our common law, our Constitution, and the power of democracy to take up their social and civic responsibility to care for their cities, states, nations as well as they might. Some even began to see their citizenship as a gift rather than as a responsibility and a self protection. Many of us to this day have an incomplete understanding of the basis of our history. The power of the jury was forgotten, as was the power of the public forum, dialogue, and organization.

                 My intention here is to speak to citizens in general and not just to union members. My excuse for having unionists on the mind is that historically they take a certain responsibility for governing themselves. And in what survives of our unions is archived some wisdom about citizens organizing and active democracy. Also with survival of some union there is a better chance of finding a more perfect union.

                After WWII there seemed to be a decline in citizen organization, Men and women became less active in their clubs. Most clubs had taken some part in civic education and practice and did much good. Many members gained an understanding of the results of ongoing legislation. Some club member did a better job of educating one another and others about the politics of the land then did some unions.

                Knowledge of aspects of democratic citizen organizing have been misplaced. Still, it can be found. It is not only to be found in union archives, but is also to be found, sometimes with difficulty, in most universities of the land. Libraries hold much good information and much, with some sorting, can be found on the www. Students of democracy and active citizenship have done important work in modernizing and updating the wisdom of governance of, by, and for the people.  One large are of agreement centers on the fact that the less citizen activity there is in governance the less the existence of democracy. Another area of agreement is that the more citizens practice citizenship the more they learn of citizenship.

Useful Information:

                  Over the decades much of great value has been written about active citizenship, civic organization,and education for self governance. It is here for us to read.

By law you have the power to govern. People power is right now. We can learn to use it. From lack of use our right and our power can evaporate. If you are a reader please feel free to share that which you find out about how to do active citizenship, use our Constitution and Common Law, learning to govern ourselves, and like that. You can report or inform us in "comments" just below. You can even as questions or make comments there. I like to use my own name but you can use a pen name or avatar.

                 Back to unions. I think that they have some good examples of citizens taking responsibility for their own governance. I suspect that the practice of some unionism can lead to a more perfect union. There are some important union people who have done some important work about organizing for example. However there are philosophers, educators, historians, statesmen, and more who can inform us well. There ar those among us who can tells about them. With some careful sorting and discrimination we can find useful works online, on the www, which we can share and use to take better care of ourselves socially, civically, and in self-governance. We need to be courageous enough to begin to talk among ourselves about our common good.

Action:

                You can practice here. For example, when you find information about people, persons, and individuals organizing democratically for their mutual good you can tell us about it here. You could so anonymously if you want to. When you find something amazing that we can lawfully do to take better care of ourselves you could tell us about it. This blog is about governance and we can share info about governance here.We can share info about social or political learning or teaching, or about interesting democratic mutual aid organizing.  We can share interesting doings and activities. Grass roots doings can be interesting.

                By searching this site you could find something interesting.

              Thank you for the visit.

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This is BIG!

We have a lot to teach each other. Let us get with it. We have a lot to teach one another. Let's get at it. We can take care of ourselves better together. We can govern ourselves for pleasure and profit, fun and freedom, joy and justice. Let's give it a try right now.

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            We deserve to know what our governments are doing. It can even be interesting to know what our governments have done. It might even prove interesting why the did it and why they are doing it. It is possible to find out to what a given ''it" refers.

            What are our leaders not telling us? Propaganda and control of the public mind.

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Your Governance Questions

 What governance questions interest you?

                Are You interested in any of these questions?

                Tell me which of these governance questions interest you the most.  After reading your comment I will write about it. Then you can tell me where I am missing the point and I will try to pick up the slack. You could also offer an answer to a question which interests you. I will try to amplify your answer in a future post here.

                Taken one step beyond the step beyond, the following questions could lead to more effective citizenship.

~ What is citizenship?

~ What is a local public forum? 

~ What is the use of common law?

~ What is the use of the US Constitution?

~ What punishments are we as a people allowed to inflict.?

~ What determines when a trial has not been convened speedily.

~ What is excessive bail?

~ What is bail?

~ What are some of the important ways I may recognize that due process is being followed.

~ What is “Due Process?”

~ What seems to be an important how, when, who, why, or where governance question?

~ What is a Grand Jury?

~ What is a Grand Jury used for?

~ What is a warrant?

~ What is our covenant with one another?

~ What is the meaning of equality as it is used in the U.S. Constitution?

~ What other questions might lead to answers of value to us?

~ What is a governance responsibility?

~ What of importins might we agree on?

~ What are the ways we support our representatives?

~ What is the step beyond your question? What is then your next step?

~ What at the county and state levels is affecting your neighborhood?

~ What is a consensus?

                On this blog and its associated blogs I hope to answer some of these questions and to look a bit beyond those answers. I hope you consider some answers too. I hope we can share some hope.

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                Thanks for reading.

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Your Common Law

We live and thrive better with our knowledge of Common Law. It helps us to live and thrive in greater clarity. Its empowering. With a couple of viewings of this video you will understand common law more usefully than do most of us.

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Learning to Organize as We Organize to Learn

  Co-operation:

                There is a hope among us that we can effectively co-operate for our mutual well-being; that is to co-operate for the well-being of our health, education, economy, civic life, and more. We know about co-operation, but many of us seem to be out of practice. 

                In order to organize to get something going, or to keep it going, we need to co-operate pretty well. That takes talking, it takes communication, and it takes practice. To keep on the same track or on the same page, often takes an ongoing conversation or dialogue. Carrying on a dialogue conversation effectively takes some practice and a bit of learning. 

Practice:

                We could practice such dialogue as we teach each other active citizenship, self governance, and participatory democracy, if we would.

                Learning to practice the dialogue effectively can be an important first step. Learn to use the dialogue is a very useful in many collective activities. the practice of the dialogue makes us better co-operators and more effective doers. Use of the dialogue is a great aid to organizing and and more effective learning as we become more effective organizers.

Listening and Acton:

                Dialogue practice leads us to be more meaningful listeners and understanders. The dialogue is a way to think co-operatively, to act usefully, and effectively. It can be a way to beautiful action. It can move us beautiful action. It can move us to powerful and broadly meaningful action when we so will.

                You can explore our growing blogsites of dialogue and governance when you so will. You can check the list of associated blogs here whenever you care to. Find out more about dialogue skills and how to use them at the dialogue and the governance sites here.

                Thank you for reading.

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Happy 4th!

 

This is addressed to Americans of the U.S,A. All of us may benefit.

What is happening to us and around us?

What are we feeling?

What are we seeing and hearing?

What are we pretty sure of?

After "what?" we begin to ask and answer: How? Why? Who? When? Where? We do not have to it all today, but we can begin today and then persist.

We Can:

We can understand one another better by listening to each other quietly. 

We can share share real experiences and interpretations.

We can claim our freedom of assembly and speech to talk over our plans, concerns, and values. We have done so.

We can consider doings and happenings together.

We have done well and we can do well now.

We can talk honestly and that is a fine doing, especially when done in a friendly manner.

We can listen to each other and that is a great doing, especially when done with the purpose of understanding.

We can listen for meanings and understandings and that is a great doing.

We can share our real experiences and that can lead to better common understandings.

We have come to better understand in the past and we can come to better understand now.

We can share honest opinions and discover assumption. Not easy but well worth doing.

We can do a lot! We can do well. Our doings can great results.

We can see that some of the happenings around us are not great.

We can see that not all that is said and done in our name is not great.

We can most often say and do that which is necessary, especially when we say and do together.

We can know that most of  that which we feel about pride, humility, values, and honor is important 

We can unite to good effect many humans have done so, our forefathers have done so. 

We can practice enough co-operation.

We can be ready and willing to unite. We are already able to unite. We could begin some useful  useful uniting within a couple of months.

We can take a little step toward a better toward a better union one by one right now. We can begin to move toward a darn good union.

We know that united we can do well.

We can practice taking better care of ourselves.

We can practice governing ourselves together.

We can find greater joy in our independence together.

We know that practicing co-operation can empower us.

We know that practicing organization can be a powerful action for good. 

We can show up.

We can practice participating together.

We can practice better ways of listening to each other and talking to one another one at a time.

We can. Let's do.

Let's do that which we can.

We can.

Let's do.

Happy 4th!

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