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Joining our struggles to build another world: 10 years of horizontal organising in El Barrio, New York https://dorsetchiapassolidarity.wordpress/2015/01/23/8324/ “We believe those who suffer injustice first-hand must design and lead their own struggles for justice.” The organisation is built around the principles of autonomy, self-determination, and participatory democracy. This means that it is based on a horizontal form of organising and has no leaders. The aim is to create spaces where people can come together as a community to share their problems. In this way they can agree the solutions and it is the community itself that has the power. Not being dependent on anyone to tell them what to do, they believe, creates a strong base which can never be destroyed. The basis of Movement’s organising is consulting the community. Members go door to door, building by building, block by block, getting to know each other, constructing relationships. Committees are formed in each building, and once the whole building is organised, they become members. Each building agrees its own actions and means of struggle. Movement is also deeply committed to fighting all forms of discrimination and to respecting each other’s differences. Above all, this means listening to one another.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:31:28 +0000

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