We Want A Revo Lu Tio N

Soooo peoples, how are we going to change the world? What are we going to do? Post here! ~Eire

EscapeFromTheEconomy ? BeCreative

Well, on the broad range, I'd like to: spend a few months to a few years tree-sitting in rain forests with communities of activists to prevent the trees from being cut down, deactivate landmines, help war refugees, help third-world people keep their heritage and traditions in an ever-changing world, join environmental organizations to pass laws and enforce those laws to cut down on industrial pollution and the like. I want to get rid of nuclear power and introduce solar, wind, and any other kind of clean power. I want to fight corporate welfare and prevent urban sprawl, educate inner-city children about other opportunities (and no, not the "stay in school" stuff that's usually done), help gay and lesbian families adopt children, and kill the death penalty. And so, so much more...

But on a practical scale, this is what I think I'll be doing. For the next year or so, I'd like to help New Haven, my home, florish economically, with more local businesses and less major corporations. I'd like to foster a sense of community, and blur the racial line. I'd like to plant more trees and clean up some of the rivers around here, as well as do all I can to shut down the nuclear power plant nearby and help pass the bill for universal health care in Connecticut. I want to help make better public transportation, and maybe even get the busses to put bike racks on. I want to get poetry, art (especially graffiti art!), and music put everywhere possible in the city, and even outside the city.

I want to save the York Square Cinema, where I work; that's the single most possible and important cause I can think of right now. And you bet that in a few years I'll be doing some of that tree-sitting and protesting. Hell yeah.

I'm not really into the unschooling revolution anymore, but that doesn't mean I don't support it. I'd like to try to develop all-ages colleges; I think that would be awesome.

~Eire

Some time I am going to research youth curfew/First Amendment right issues, see if I can get people to sponsor/just finance/donate printing stuff to me, and print up thousands of anti-curfew brochures. Then I'll have a brochure-folding-stapling-whatever party so I can get them done real fast, and I'll make them available at libraries (maybe get people to "sponsor" branches near them and make sure they're kept up there and let me know if they run out) and coffee houses and generally anywhere they won't dump them in the trash when I walk out the door. - Emma

• Good idea! We're having that problem in fresno right now. email kevin hall (a very cool homeschooling dad) at hallmos at aol.com. he's doing a lot of reasearch on the issue in california. give him props now and ask him stuff, I'm sure he could help you a lot. just say you're a freind of josh engle's

Josh

One word, BobTheUnschoolingHoodie. -jonah

you say you want a revo-o-lution, we-e-ll you know, we all wanna change the world...you say that it's the institutions, we-e-ll you better free your mind instead but when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out..it's gonna be...alright...it's gonna be...alright...[9]

so that's not gonne change the world, but i LOVE that song~ peace~sarah c.

I want/need/am going to change the world... but I don't know where to start. I want to change the way this capitalist culture thinks most of all. But... yeah. One of these days...

I'm going to change the world by being what I would like it to be. I figur, don't just talk about how things should be, make things how they should be, if you want people to be nice to eachother, be nice, set a good example, smile more, open doors for people who could on their own, say good morning to people you pass on the street, look people in the eye, talk to strangers. there are all kinds of things you can do, about everything that you see as being able to be done better.

One of my favorite buttons/bumperstickers:

Start a revolution. Love your body. ~Rosie

I don't know about a revolution, but I try to push an anti-capitalist message whenever I can. - Nikki

Things/Places to Take Over: [1]

• America
• Canada
• ZIMBABWE
• American Cheese factories
• schools
• traffic lights
• Walmart
• AOL
• politics, of all kinds, everywhere
• MassMeatProductionPlaces
• The media!

add on!

[1] Of course, once we take it over we can change it, obliterate it etc.

I have to say, I thouroughly disagree with the whole premise of the above post. But, you know, whatever. There's no one right way to think, believe, act, or anything. I just think that these institutions exist because the form of society that we have now makes them necessary. Marx said "religion is the opium of the masses", and I happen to agree. I think "revolution is the amphetamine of the masses" it makes people powerful while leaving them in the same position. Things only change when people don't wait for the structure to change befoe they themselves begin living in new ways. DO what you love. For best results, forget about the American Dream

   Dontcha know talkin' about a rev-o-lu-tion 
   sounds
   like a whisper?
   (Tracy Chapman)

Here's my say about this whole revolution business:

The world is always changing. Constantly. Lives are changing, places are changing, ideals are changing, what is popular is changing, everything. That doesn't mean they are getting better or worse, because the world will always have so much diversity and contrast that you can find plenty you like and, likewise, plenty you do not like. The key is, to living the life you want/like/prefer, focus on what you like, and imagine things the way you like them, not things being not the way you don't like them. It's faster to use the positive than the double negative, even if it acheives the same thing.

Maybe revolution isn't a good model. Maybe it is. I think this was a good topicEire listed some great thingsbut I want more personal specifics, I want people to talk about things that they're doing and things that they've done, and no general advice about following your dreams unless it's tied into your own life and how you live it. Maybe "Revolution" isn't a good word. Anyway, this page wasn't made for me and what I want, so I'll make one that is and turn it lose. In short, I know it's easiest for me at this point in my life to pay attention to LivingGoodNow. (I know it's not grammatical. Bear with me.) I'll talk about what I try to do to make things better there. Julie(lipse

I've been thinking lately about how there should be an unschooling movement. i mean i know there sort of already is, but its really more of an underground, silent type of a movement. it has made many changes, there are now more homeschoolers then there were years ago. Homeschooling is now a pretty reconized term. but does anybody actually know what it is? i think most people on the street when they hear the world homeschooling think of more school-at-home with your parents teaching you, and unschooling isnt even heard of. so i think we unschoolers need to get the word out. we need a BIG movement, like the civil rights movement or the feminist movement. Thats what i mean, a HUGE big, sit up and take notice movement. so who's with me? and does anybody know how to get the ball rolling on a huge movement? I'm not just talking here, i mean it, we need a huge movement.

• I'm with ya, whole-heartedly. I was saying to my mom yesterday that I truly believe that the world would be a much better place if everyone became vegetarian and experienced theatre regularly. And I would certainly add to that "knew about unschooling"... Of course, as my mom pointed out to me, everyone probably has their own list like thatfrom "everyone should spend time in the woods" to "everyone should become Christian". But naturally, I have to trust that my beliefs are right. So how do we light a fire under this unschooling movement? -Emerie

 [9]Here's the full lyrics for anyone who cares.

 /You say you want a revolution/
 /Well you know, we all want to change the world/
 /You tell me that it's evolution/
 /Well you know, we all want to change the world/
 /But when you talk about distruction/
 /Don't you know that you can count me out/
 /Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright  alright/

 /You say you got a real solution/
 /Well you know, we'd all love to see the plan/
 /You ask me for a contribution/
 /Well you know, we're all doing what we can/
 /But when you want money from people with minds that hate/
 /All I can tell you is brother you have to wait/
 /Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright  alright/

 /You say you'll change the constitution/
 /Well you know, we all want to change your head/
 /You tell me it's the institution/
 /Well you know, you better free your mind instead/
 /But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao/
 /You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow/
 /Don't you know it's gonna be alright/
       /alright       alright/