Topic: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

From meditations and conversations this seems to me the only logical course of action at this present time...

'Reclaiming Your Space'

It seems that everything would change in a day if, en masse, everyone of a like mind developed the same survivalist philosophy and fearless empowered attitude without any need for confrontation or aggression...

-Refusing to pay any form of rent or taxation
-Giving up any non-essential form of work or labour
-Investing any savings in essential supplies and materials
-Closing your bank accounts or refusing to pay off debt credit
-Declaring your home to be yours and effectively 'squat' the premises, possession being 9/10 of the law
-Asserting your basic human right to shelter and accomodation
-Boarding up doors and access points and defending it if needed
-Stockpiling food, seeds, equipment and supplies
-Taking over industrial units or warehouses and converting them into free spaces
-Reclaiming agricultural land and allotments
-Declaring your street, block or neighbourhood a 'free state' - knock down walls, join properties, take down fences, live communally
-Collectively sharing and pooling resources
-Networking and communicating with other survival communities
-Working towards the vision of a new cooperative society

If these can't be done yet at least working towards finding your survival community of like-minded people, looking for suitable units, warehouses, land etc. and cutting your ties with the system

Surely this is what the system and it's controllers are most afraid of...
I feel it is every persons deep desire to make this change, only fear is holding us back...
it could be the greatest adventure we ever embark on as free humans! Before it's too late...

any comments and ideas on this appreciated
one love
peace
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Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

This very much appeals.  Love it.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix 

3 (edited by lyra 2007-02-09 08:24:00)

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

The key here is that it would have to truly be "en masse."  Not just a few dozen people, or even a few hundred.  Millions.  All at the same time.   Problem there is good luck convincing that many people to do it.  Everybody's so scared, so programmed and conditioned.  They have too much to lose.  Try convincing somebody who's got several kids that they should do this...and let's face it, most people have kids.   They won't, solely because of the kids.  So then that leaves only the non-kids people.  Young singles, young couples, middle aged people whose kids are out of the house, and retired people.

Middle aged people are concerned about their impending retirement and golden years...so, too much too lose.  The loss of security isn't going to be worth it to most of them.  The idea of being in one's 60's or 70s with no place to live or money to take care of their needs...no insurance, no meds, living in such an unstable crazy way after a lifetime of stable security.   Bad idea for them.  Then retired people...they're already in the middle of that, so, not going to throw it away.

So that basically leaves young childless people.  Are there enough out there?   I don't know. 



Zero One wrote:

-Refusing to pay any form of rent or taxation
-Declaring your home to be yours and effectively 'squat' the premises, possession being 9/10 of the law
-Asserting your basic human right to shelter and accomodation

Back during 1995-1996, I needed a place to stay and so wound up crashing on my friend Mike's floor.  After I get there and get settled in, he reveals to me that, Oh, by the way, we're living here illegally.  wink  This house was a re-possessed house that we took over.  We still pay rent, but we pay it to this guy named Henry who finds the houses for us.  Eventually we'll probably get kicked out by the cops, so we just stay as long as we can.  Is that alright?

I listened, like, "!!!"  Wow!   Cool. Sure. Shrug.  I mean, I was just about to turn 21, and my life was a circus.  So sure, bring it on!  big_smile    I just saw it as a fun adventure, like everything else that had been happening to me over the past few years.   

Turns out that the lead rooommate guy (steve, later wound up becoming my boyfriend) was into researching Don't pay taxes, Don't have a driver's license or registration, Don't have a social security card, the United States is a corporation, we've been hoodwinked, etc.  You know, that whole deal that was mentioned on the FBI brochure that morningsun76 posted in his Driver's Licenses thread.   This guy was one of THOSE people.  wink   His phone was tapped later on because of it, and his sister was dating a former Special Forces guy who also was way into that, and wanted to move up to Oregon or Washington and go be part of some survivalist militia group.  (he became crazy and abusive and she gave him the heave ho.)  But anyway, so yeah, I had first hand experience with what it is to be involved with that supposed "possession is 9/10 of the law" and illegal squatting and what you outline here.  It sounds well and good and you can spout it til the cows come home, having the memorized speeches (as also mentioned in that FBI brochure wink  )  but trust me...the cops eventually come to kick in your door.  They don't care.   What happens is they start posting notices on the door, giving you the deadline date of when you have to be out, letting you know that if you're not out on your own accord by that date, they will come in and force you out.   They also start flagrantly poking around the premises. They'll try to open the windows on the ground level and open any doors.  So doors always have to be locked, 24/7 and all ground floor windows closed and locked as well.  I have an interesting story about this one night the roommates were all heading out the door to go somewhere, but I wasn't going with them, so I just jumped in the shower, getting ready to settle in and park myself in front of the word processor and write all night.  The roommates got as far as the car they were going to use when all of them just stopped and looked at each other.  They were all overcome with bad feelings that something was really wrong....don't go.  One of them, a girl (will call her "D") was the first one to say something.  Mike and Steve agreed that yeah, they felt it too.  Something is wrong.  Don't go.  So all three just turned and trotted back inside, closed and locked the door and basically, just sat down in the kitchen.  Waiting.  For what, they didn't know, but, they sat there anyway.   Meanwhile, I'm in the shower, totally oblivious, and as I'm getting out of the shower I start to hear banging and pounding going on outside.  Somebody is angrily pounding on the front door, being crazy.  I hurry and get dressed, like, "oh shit!!" and get out of the bathroom. I see the doorknob jiggling, obviously locked with someone trying to get in.   I go into the kitchen and find the roommates gathered around.....and both guys have a samurai sword in their hands, just waiting.  big_smile   "I thought you were going out?" I said.  "We were."  And they explained what happened.  The banging was a cop who had shown up and was determined to get in.   He was jiggling the doorknob, kicking and pounding on the door, and roaming all around the premises trying to get in.  And like a cop, he was there for probably a good 20 minutes.  Cops will take their baton and just repeatedly bash on the door, over and over and over and over.  They figure you'll get scared and intimidated enough to open it. 

Had the roommates not been overcome with that bad feeling, they would have left to go out, leaving the front door unlocked, with me inside, in the shower, with the bathroom door unlocked as well.  (Defenses slip...laziness happens....you start to think, Oh, nobody's come around in weeks, it's safe, you don't have to lock up......X!)   And yeah, that angry cop would have been barging right in on me, in the shower, as I was home alone.  hmm  Not good.    He would have shown up only MINUTES after they had taken off.   AMAZING timing, huh?  Yes, let's hear it for the matrix.  But let's also hear it for the good guys who intervene.  smile

But yeah, that's just one anecdote of the sort of thing one has to contend with when they embark on this sort of thing.  I mean, I think maybe it could be done, but again, it would have to be seriously "en masse."   Possession is 9/10 of the law doesn't fly.  They don't care.  They're going by a new set of rules now in this country, but the public isn't being informed.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

Try convincing somebody who's got several kids that they should do this...and let's face it, most people have kids.   They won't, solely because of the kids.

Perhaps they should do it *because* of the kids, to ensure a future and good upbringing for them; imagine a survival community where everyone knew and trusted each other, living communally and working for the good of the collective, with children given a special priority...this is the only kind of community I would want to raise kids in.

These new structures exist already of course in traveller communes, cooperative farms and faith communities eg. the Amish...
just not in major cities. This is a major challenge for us city-dwellers and urban activists.

Squatting in insecure accomodation may not be good for children, but certainly mutually-supportive extended families of people of all ages would be.

While the whole idea seems radical, of course it's only a return to tribal living as our ancestors have been doing for thousands of years!

one love
peace
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5 (edited by lyra 2007-02-09 09:52:43)

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

Zero One wrote:

Perhaps they should do it *because* of the kids, to ensure a future and good upbringing for them; imagine a survival community where everyone knew and trusted each other, living communally and working for the good of the collective, with children given a special priority...this is the only kind of community I would want to raise kids in.

You missed the point I think.   Of course, they should do it because of the kids....but the reality is, most people are very afraid.  They are all about their safety and secuurity.  I'm not saying I agree with it.  I'm not saying it's right. I'm just pointing out what the reality is.   While this sort of thing exists on a smaller level already, as you noted, with commuter carpools, the Amish and so on, the majority of America at least is not living like that, or doing anything of the sort.  Hell....a good chunk of the population doesn't even recycle.  wink  So yeah, it would be a huge task to convince people to go off and away from the only system they've ever known, especially when, in their mind, they have too much to lose.  They don't see that the way in which they're living IS losing.  Everybody loses, including the planet.   But they're brainwashed.

That's why I suspect that it would take some kind of catastrophe to force people off the ride, and into a new lifestyle and way of being.  But if people aren't being forced to do it, there might not be enough people "en masse" who have the motivation (and lack of fear!)  It's something else though if society has no choice, due to some sort of external situation forcing people off the ride.


Zero One wrote:

Squatting in insecure accomodation may not be good for children, but certainly mutually-supportive extended families of people of all ages would be.

While the whole idea seems radical, of course it's only a return to tribal living as our ancestors have been doing for thousands of years!

I'm all for the idea.  I've wished for something like this for awhile now myself.  It's just a matter of somebody finally getting it set up and in place.....

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

(also consider checking out the section called "Walking the Walk" at the bottom of the main forum index.  Here's the link:

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewforum.php?id=33


It has all kinds of threads about what you're talking about here.....)

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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7 (edited by Adama 2007-02-09 13:01:57)

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

It would be wiser to do a change step by step, as long as a change in behaviour must take birth into the mind of people...and that takes a little time.
I think the root of the problem is that people have a work to get money, not to get happy.
If some follow their hearts, others will follow (not by force but because they see it works!).
For example I had a brilliant medical career in front of me but I left EVERYTHING to learn music in Africa, because I believe it could make me live one day and I LOVE IT!
I received no threat from government but I had to convince all my family (and it's not done yet!) and all my friends and everybody who laughed at me when I was telling my story...
I'm pretty good now and nobody's laughing right now, my teacher just won a Grammy and is nominated for another and just finished a title with Bjork (five years ago everybody told me "your instrument sucks", and now nobody would dare to say that)...
I have no mioney but that's the price for living in a world where people don't follow their heart but their fears...
Your worst ennemy is a lack of faith, and if you show great faith where everybody fear, then you'll make a big change!
You just have to accept to leave your material and spiritual confort to jump into the sea

8 (edited by Baron 2007-02-09 18:57:49)

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

Unfortunately, a completely open communal society would most likely result with people exploiting the system for personal benefit. A lot of people at that. Enough people that virtually the only working system would be one with government, laws, etc. Unless these people could be convinced in the same way everyone else would be, but that seems even less likely.

It's nice to dream though..

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

I think the only thing that could "fuel" this revolution would be free energy.  There are a few free energy systems going around right now and eventually one is going to be proven to work en masse.  People could easily begin their own societies with that.  The fibers from hemp will be the revolutionary crop that allows an average joe to make anything.  Henry Ford built a car made of hemp that was more dent-resistant than steel and ran on a hemp biodiesel variant.  I think true free energy would not need hemp fuel, simply water that consistently creates energy from the vacuum.  3D printers will be able to print parts and things of all sorts where anyone can design and create anything.  Hemp plastics could build a non-toxic anything you could ever need.

the golden mean vortex that governs nature, creates gravity and electricity, all perpetual energy machines use some sort of vortex-inducing mechanism
www.goldenmean.info

List of uses and properties of hemp
http://www.woyano.com/view/4503/The-True-Story-of-Hemp

how to create a 3d printer (or fabber) with about 2000 bucks of materials (they normally cost around 20 grand)
http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The future is gonna be sweet smile

Re: 'Reclaim Your Space' - the only non-violent solution

With power comes responsibility wink

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