The Dictionary of Radical Alternatives launched this week

On March 24th the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) launched The Dictionary of Radical Alternatives — a living, collaborative platform created to expand the vocabularies we use to name, defend, and practice other ways of being in the midst of a civilizational crisis.

Beyond ecological and economic breakdown, this is also a crisis of meaning and imagination: the persistent claim that there is “no alternative.”

I attended a fascinating discussion of the global "weavers" discussing the dictionary that brings together activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity.

The GTA's focus is primarily on what they call “radical or transformative alternatives”, which they define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience.

The dictionary aims to:

https://dictionaryofradicalalternatives.org/Introduction

What is you do, see, learn this week that brought you a different perspective?

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