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Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.

If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" akpress.org/deciding-for-ourse

desinformemonos.org/celebra-ch

www.akpress.orgDeciding For Ourselves<p>This anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian ways of life that are collectively generated in them.</p>
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If you want to exercise your digital civil #freedom and #autonomy, and if you want to support the development of a #privacy focused #Linux phone and its operating system, head over the the #Purism shop and order a #Librem5. They are in stock.

Note that the Librem 5 is a phone that is designed from the bottom to run Linux. It is not a phone with Android originals that is now running a Linux distribution.

You fully control the phone.

shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

shop.puri.smLibrem 5 – Purism

A call to #universities:
"Apart from #security & #privacy concerns, our alternative-less reliance on #BigTech is fundamentally at odds with public values like #freedom, #independence, #autonomy and #equality. The #digitalservices we use for research and teaching are profoundly shaping our professional practices; the incorporation of #AItools (coPilot) in basic software (MSOffice365), substantially shape our teaching & research and hence impact our professional #autonomy."
algosoc.org/results/calling-fo

AlgosocCalling for a transformation to digital autonomy | AlgoSoc

Agile Bible, Verse 5:

“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.”

Now tell me, when every process, idea, stakeholder, task, OKR, strategy, tool, framework, micromanagement, team structure, and team requirement comes top-down…

What exactly are you doing to ensure every individual has the environment and support to deliver their unique value and impact?
(Spoiler: The value and impact is not equal to your role. Shocking, I know.)

Lawyers say Oregon genital cutting law discriminates against boys; seek circumcision ban
Zane Sparling for Oregonian/Oregon Live

"The plaintiffs ask the court to declare current Oregon laws banning only female genital cutting a violation of the state constitution’s Equal Rights Amendment and Equal Protection Clause. They say the court must either ban it for children of any gender or overturn the statute entirely."

oregonlive.com/health/2025/03/

oregonlive · Lawyers say Oregon genital cutting law discriminates against boys; seek circumcision banBy Zane Sparling | The Oregonian/OregonLive