EcoGathering: Enclosure and Primitive Enclosure
Register Here! Conversation Enclosure is seen by many as the beginning of capitalism as a dominant economic system. It is an ongoing process of claiming once commonly managed resources (both […]
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EcoGathering: The Fight for the Congo
Register Here! Upstream Conversation On this special EcoGathering, we’ll convene to discuss the Upstream podcast episode featuring Vijay Prashad, The Fight for the Congo. The extraction of materials so necessary […]
EcoGathering: Commoner’s Consciousness
Register Here! Focus David Bollier said “There is no commons without commoning.” The commons is more than just a collectively managed resource. It is a nuanced, adaptive, participatory culture that […]
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EcoGathering: Re-Commoning
In this final generative EcoGathering of the lunar cycle on Commoning, we will unveil the beginnings of EcoGather’s digital learning commons to receive feedback and proactive input from our community of learners on how best to develop and manage the space to be most useful and enlivening to its users. We will practice applying what we have learned throughout this lunar cycle to a real-life example.
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EcoGathering: Mystery
If we step away from the dominant culture’s compulsion to classify, measure, quantify, and know everything it can, we find ourselves in the realm of mystery. There is a whole other side of the world that cannot be known, but only marveled at and dumbfounded by. There is a whole other kind of knowing not ground in causal certainty, but a certain kind of intuiting, or feeling, or experiencing. Join us this week as we explore the mysteries in the world around us and appreciate the mysteries in our own lives.
Hospicing Modernity Together
A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)'s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
EcoGathering: Spirit
Though most of us are now raised under an institutionalized, empire-approved form of either (monotheistic) religion or aspirituality, many of us still feel some more-ness exists in our experience of the universe. This week, though we might lack the cultural and social means to grasp and explain it fully, we'll explore that more-ness in the world through the perspective of spirit.