Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Open-Source Education and the People’s Book Project

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Open-Source Education and the People’s Book Project

Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from his blog.

This young Canadian writer is working overtime to make the world a better place. It is thanks to young people like him that we have any hope to live in a just and sustainable world. We simply must support Marshall and The People’s Book Project all of whom are working so hard for these ends.

The People’s Book Project is a crowd-funded initiative to support the research and writing of a series of books studying ideas, institutions, and individuals of power… and resistance. The Project has been going for roughly a year and a half, and has yielded an immense amount of research and writing, all thanks to the generous donations of supporters, as well as readers who have shared and promoted the Project and articles.