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Jan 15, 2025 | 
resilience.org | Yavor Tarinski
We are living under a system that carries with it sometimes crushing forms of coercion and oppression; very painful inequalities; hosts of useless sufferings.~Simone Weil[1]The question of equality has been of primary concern for thinkers and societies since ancient times.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Yavor Tarinski
We are living under a system that carries with it sometimes crushing forms of coercion and oppression; very painful inequalities; hosts of useless sufferings. ~Simone Weil[1]The question of equality has been of primary concern for thinkers and societies since ancient times.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Yavor Tarinski
“How far can the ‘right’ (the legally and collectively assured effective possibility) of each individual, of each group, of each commune, of each nation to act as it wants, extend once we know – and we have always known it, but the ecology movement forcefully reminds us of it – that we are all embarked on the same planetary boat and that what each one of us does can have repercussions on everyone else?”[1] ~Cornelius Castoriadis It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Yavor Tarinski
“How far can the ‘right’ (the legally and collectively assured effective possibility) of each individual, of each group, of each commune, of each nation to act as it wants, extend once we know – and we have always known it, but the ecology movement forcefully reminds us of it – that we are all embarked on the same planetary boat and that what each one of us does can have repercussions on everyone else?”[1]~Cornelius Castoriadis It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the...
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Yavor Tarinski
September 15, 2024 Create! Football blossomed in the slums. It required no money and could be played with nothing more than sheer desire. ~Eduardo Galeano1 In his book Football in Sun and in Shadow, Eduardo Galeano pointed at the commercialization of the world’s most famous sport and its detachment from the grassroots. In it he says that “when the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play, got torn out by its very roots. Professional football condemns all that is...
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Yavor Tarinski
[I]f sustainability requires a sustainable democracy, then cities may be the places where democracy is most sustainable.1-Benjamin BarberCities are an integral part of human history. With their creation a public space emerged, which allowed their inhabitants to experience true political freedom. The city gave birth to direct democracy and the concept of the polis – both based on the idea that citizens can and should collectively and equally self-manage their common urban life, in all its spheres.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Yavor Tarinski
Whenever poor people can gain access to land and materials, they build dweller-controlled housing which grows and adapts according to need and opportunity.[1 ~Colin WardOur contemporary cities are marked by crises and inequalities. In many places touristification forces residents to the outer tiers of their city, and most urban environments have been completely conquered by the automobile with its negative impact on so many levels, such as air and other different other forms of pollution, etc.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
filmsforaction.org | Yavor Tarinski
[C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic world—a meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens. ~Murray Bookchin[1]Often, when people advocate for the reinvigoration of citizenship in response to ongoing crises, they are faced with an argument that views this concept as too exclusionary to be able to offer any meaningful path forward today.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Yavor Tarinski
When the revolution happens, you’re going to have to be in the streets. ~Marcus Baram[1]Nowadays there is a lot of talk about digital, or e-democracy – focusing on online participation. There is even talk of a so-called Appocracy – civic participation being channeled through smartphone apps. Many see in such means an exit from the deepening crisis of representative “democracy”.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Yavor Tarinski
When the revolution happens, you’re going to have to be in the streets. ~Marcus BaramNowadays there is a lot of talk about digital, or e-democracy – focusing on online participation. There is even talk of a so-called Appocracy – civic participation being channeled through smartphone apps. Many see in such means an exit from the deepening crisis of representative “democracy”.
