The following core objectives were adopted at the inaugural community meeting on 30 December, 2023.
For ourselves: to cultivate freedom, solidarity, help and care for each other in a space safe from harmful interference. To each person according to their needs, from each according to their abilities.
For our surroundings: helping others to face the challenges of the collapse of industrial civilisation.
For the world: to mitigate the suffering and death of sentient beings, especially resulting from the planetary all-crisis.
The community and its principles
A community is made up of
- individuals
- those who declare to belong to it,
- accept the rules of the community as their own,
- contribute regularly on a basis from each according to his/her capacity;
- infrastructure
- meeting, working and living spaces,
- communication channels,
- jointly managed resources,
- shared logistics;
- shared beliefs
- the “world map” – worldview, opinion of how the world (environment) works and looks like (and how it should),
- strategy – what way we want to get to the desired state of the world,
- tactics – what methods we want (and don’t want) to use.
We align with…
- Solarpunk (but also Lunarpunk).
- De/Post-growth, which is Solarpunk’s pragmatic twin.
- Social permaculture, which helps us arrange relations in the social ecosystem on the principles of symbiosis.
- The bottom-up and self-governing organisation of each community.
- Co-existence, communication and co-operation between communities.
- Mutual aid, care and concern.
We oppose…
- Attitudes of programmatic oppression of the weak.
- All (and especially hidden) material and immaterial monopolies in general.
- Capitalism in particular.
- All (and especially hidden) structures of coercion and hierarchy in general.
- The state based on the monopoly of violence in particular.
In our actions, we strive to
- make and implement decisions collectively, on terms we have voluntarily agreed upon, guided by the good of the beings around us and not by the pursuit of personal gain;
- use tools and technical knowledge to create objects, knowledge or provide services that improve our lives and those of other sentient beings;
- applying the principles of social permaculture: caring for people (starting with ourselves), caring for the planet, caring for an equitable distribution of the fruits of our labour (not just for us);
- reject exploitation, domination and concentration of power or resources – while we recognise the value of knowledge and experience in specific matters, we also protect the boundaries of individuals and communities from the over-expansion of others;
- treat technology as a tool to do good for individuals, communities and the world at large; technology is meant to serve the common good, not the other way around.