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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 795

Borders! We have expanded our borders from sea to sea and beyond. We now have the capacity to extend them even further. This time we can do it by capturing not lands but hearts and minds (people might even stop hating us!), where every one is one of us. We are here, at this choice point: roll up ourselves into a tighter and tighter ball and keep everyone else out, setting walls at our borders; or take an open stance, extending our hands and arms in welcome, expanding our borders, a growing and growing circumference: embrace.

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I’m recruiting community disorganizers—people who will meet with others and discover that they are in charge of the world: they will rearrange the world.

:- Doug.

I’m a community disorganizer. I invite people to meet. People find out that they are possible. People change what needs changing.

:- Doug.

Governments, corporations and charities do not exist. They are purely constructs of our imaginations. Therefore, governments, corporations and charities can do nothing to help the situation. Only people are possible.

:- Doug.

Opening space is good for getting work done; but more importantly is its role of getting people to say, We can do that.

People see that they have resources and abilities beyond what they had imagined a few minutes earlier.

:- Doug.