If we adapt DAO to protests and activism, then we adapt it to everything more easily and faster
Heeey dao-wizards and fighters for freedom! Crumple here
Thanks to the dao-community and Aragon in particular for welcoming and supporting my activity and such an important topic in general. âDAO for protests and activismâ area deeply touched me even during the Global Climate Strike led by the amazing Greta Thunberg, but it detonated now, during my participation in the anti-dictatorial, peaceful #BelarusProtest.
This publication is still in preparation now. The first three parts have already been published. The next parts will be added before the end of this week - Sorry for the delay, Iâm in the process
So welcome the entire dao-community, Aragon community and fighters for freedom from all parts of the world to the time-requested, action-oriented discussion. Here is also [Activism] channel on Aragon Discord.
Content
- Some note
- The main aspirations for now
- What is DAO for me. Fundamental
- Worldâs protests: request for decisive transformations
- DAO and protests: from individual use to complete transformation
- Fighting for freedom collaboration: [DAO for protests and activism] DAO-Hub creation proposal
- First case: DAO-solution to help #BelarusProtest > Situation brief and proposed concepts
- Relevant links, quotes, abstracts, cases
- Who is Crumple and his participation
Take this doc as my public drafts please
Dear friends, Iâm not an experienced publicist yet, so I apologize in advance for possible gaps in the sequence of information presentation, its possible repetition in different forms and irrelevance to this topic, as well as the possible absence at the moment of any expected unique and holistic ideas\solutions in the discussed direction. These are just the first steps in such a large-scale, not simple and unexplored area and this material is written âon the flyâ, arbitrarily, without proper editing and with not good English, but on this score - all claims to Google plz. So please take this doc as my public drafts in general. Iâm absolutely open to amendments and additions.
The main aspirations for now
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to share my so far quite general, chaotic and unfiltered reflections in this direction;
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try to deploy a long-term and action-oriented discussion;
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to convey the special relevance and importance of this direction, in my opinion;
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to meet like-minded people, their vision, ideas and a possible predisposition to collaboration;
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to make my practical pre-proposals regarding possible further steps, in particular the possibility of organizing a certain dao-hub for research, modeling, prototyping and experiments in this area;
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to discuss and select a concept for the first practical âDAO for protestâ case to help the anti-dictatorial #BelarusProtest;
What is DAO for me. Fundamental
From my point of view, fundamentally âDAOâ is an organizational and operational model according to which nature and the universe as a whole are arranged and already probably âideallyâ works. And for humanity, this is still an ongoing, but already improved pursuit of justice and harmony. Why ongoing? Because at any time in history, if someone had an intention to build the most honest and just organization, they could do it, despite the level of technological progress of that time. And this was realized on many examples of the past, in various modifications and areas, at various levels and with one or another positive or negative final result. That is, according to its broad conceptual essence, DAO = a collective organization, which can be a commune, cooperative, incorporation, party, state, international organization, etc., and which could be built both before the Web and during Web1, Web2 and now, during Web3. The blockchain gave us the main difference between âDAO on web3â from all previous ones. So now it is technically impossible to usurp power, assets and processes within the framework of DAO, if such an opportunity is not provided initially. But donât forget that in the area we are talking about, decisive processes are still taking place in the physical world, although with the significant help of web2 technologies now and so far with little help of web3 technologies. And the quantity, multilevel, interconnectedness and scale of processes as a whole, probably canât be compared with any organization. That is, for example, what is the whole nationwide protest from the point of view of public organization and holding an event? And what is the subsequent transformation of such a âdecentralized eventâ into a "decentralized subjectâ, that unfolds âdirect democracyâ as a result of the protest? Iâm not a utopian.
Worldâs protests: request for decisive transformations
In Belarus, a nationwide protest for freedom against last dictatorial regime in Europe. In the United States, protests following the death of George Floyd. In the Philippines, protesters are sounding the alarm over a new anti-terror bill that some fear will suppress free speech. Protests in Hong Kong have reignited after Beijing set out to impose national security legislation. In Toronto, the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet while police were in her apartment led to protests against racial inequity. Israelis are protesting the killing of a teacher at the hands of Israeli police and are rallying in solidarity with United States protesters. In Brazil, residents have turned out to protest police brutality and to weigh in on ongoing investigations against the countryâs president. Chileans are protesting coronavirus lockdowns and food shortages. In Russia, changing local mass protests against the arbitrariness of the authorities. Itâs only part for 2020. Here is the Global Protests Tracker, where you can see a map and some statistics of the most significant protests since 2017.
So and what do I want to say first of all about this? Earlier, I believed that itâs better to build new than to protest against the old. Now Iâm convinced that it is necessary to build in protest! (not in all cases of course)
Simple, corny but true
When you are a dao-pioneer and are inside a giant nationwide protest, you realize that this is probably the largest and most important âpolygonâ for testing and evolutionarily demanding DAO adaptation. Because only here there is always an extreme concentration of âcollective energy of changeâ, which obviously lacks the already existing, but not yet adapted, best, relevant solutions and technologies. In order, on the one hand, that the decentralized smart protest is carried out much more efficiently, faster and without losses, and on the other hand, so that this protest as a decentralized autonomous movement\event (DAM) can be transformed into such a self-organized force (subject) that is able to achieve precisely the original, fundamental, âidealisticâ and long-term people goals. That is, as a result of this co-energy ejection, to obtain the highest possible efficiency for all. But so far, as a rule, the movement either completely loses, or cools down, or wins, but only in the context of short-term or medium-term, not fundamental goals, which may not be abundantly voiced, but collectively implied and desired.
Letâs take the example of the overthrow of an authoritarian regime and the establishment of democracy, which is certainly great and is a big step towards more freedom. But who, how and for what this democracy and everything within it is established in the end. And is our âcollective victorious giantâ always happy about this? Which, as a rule, due to its sluggishness, post-victory laziness, and most importantly still not a sufficient degree of self-organization due to the lack or inappropriateness of the appropriate infrastructure, concepts and strategies, simply canât keep track of the âsmall, cunning, organized guys â and prevent the appropriation of the fruits of collective achievement by doing it in their own free way, blocking the opportunity to prevent it. Other examples? They are everywhere, in all areas, both in the most developed and successful countries and in the backward ones, both at the micro-local level and around the world in relation to issues that, for example, relate to nature, that is, everyone. If we take all the main protests and correlate the fundamentally desired and actually obtained results, it will probably be 1 in 10?
So how do we finally fix this âsystem errorâ? How to allow our âco-giantâ to achieve the maximum desired fundamental change during and after ptotest? How can we make it as easy as possible? How can this be done in accordance with such a nationwide and altogether global scale? Iâm not ready to answer this questions completely and correctly right now, I hope we can eventually answer it together. But Iâm sure that the appropriate solutions are possible and we should to go to it in a focused way. At this stage, I can pre-describe my general, so far rather vague vision on this matter and immediately propose for consideration some first practical steps to meet this, which I personally am ready to takeâŚ
The next parts will be published in the coming days. Perhaps even based on the parts already posted, you could share your general opinion on this. Am I thinking in the right direction or do you think these are excessive dreams and why? Any opinions are greatly appreciated.