Creating Conscious Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism

Creating Conscious Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism

  

Many activists feel acutely aware that Corporate Capitalism has ruined everything. So where do we go from here, as activists for socioeconomic justice, focused on Building a New World Now, 

a world that is just and sustainable for all?

First, we need to find a balance between our hopes for a better world, and the realities that we must deal with. There's no way that militant opposition to Corporate Capitalism will just smash it to pieces, as so many of us would love to see. Unrealistic expectations among even the most idealistic activists will lead to burnout and despair. And it often has. Who hasn’t heard of old hippie “sell outs”, who once embraced revolution, but who are now are part of the problems rather than the solutions?

A good place to start is solidarity with other activists, no matter what kind of economy they believe in. Because you see, revolution is a very long term proposal that requires hard work for many, many years. It’s better to think of it as evolution—socioeconomic (r)evolution. No matter how pessimistic our thoughts may be about the current economic models, we are wise to maintain optimism in our spirits and in our will for direct actions. We need to support anyone who fights for true social justice, who struggles against economic injustice. Even if we disagree with their favorite issues, 

or their methods, experiments, politics or goals.

This is what solidarity is about. It’s about going beyond our seeming divisions, such as capitalism versus anarchism, or evolvement versus dismantlement. We should be asking critical questions with each other and brainstorming about possible solutions, rather than criticizing and lamenting, or following common party lines, or regurgitating the slogans of long dead activists. We should balance lessons learned from the past with our own common sense and our progressive visions of a better world.

So what kind of questions should we ask, as activists searching for conscious alternatives to capitalism? I think we should ask what kind of economies we really want—do we want an economy based on our true values, or on the seemingly heartless greed of corporations? Do we want to reward people for their contributions and sacrifices, or for their productivity and efficiency? Do we want to encourage individual preferences for mass, conspicuous consumption, or do we want to foster the common good of parks, libraries, mass transit, pollution reduction, and the like? Or a balance of both? Do we want our economic decisions to be based on competition and consumption, or on cooperation and collectivity? And so on.

What do we value? What do we want our economies to achieve? We can’t be taken seriously as activists by simply saying “Capitalism Sucks”. We have to have well thought out alternatives to propose and collectively build, and they have to be alternatives that average people can relate to and feel great about. The best ways to find the answers are by collaborative debates with one another. We have to discover the values and principles we want to live and die for. And we have to be able to express it in everyday language.

So is there any good alternative to Corporate Capitalism? Good question. Yes there is, actually. But it’s not a simple answer. There are MANY alternatives. And not all of them are desirable. We can consider Conscious Capitalism, Resource Based Economies, Marxism, Anarchism, and many more.

Let’s consider what we are wanting an alternative TO. Many of us do not like or want an economy based on competition, conspicuous consumption, exploitation, imperialism, environmental destruction, and hierarchies of power. That kind of capitalism is inherently unjust, and so any activist worth their salt is not going to be attracted to that.

We know that many activists hope for collectives, co-ops, and worker run entities based on broad principles of true democracy. We know many wish that the current economy could be completely dismantled and replaced quickly, but I feel like that might be naïve.

Do you know what a market economy is? Do you know what the basic institutional features and dynamics of capitalism are? Do you know how the alternatives you hope for are different from what we have now, or how it might be more or less fair, or how it might still deliver the goods that hundreds of millions of people depend on? I do not, nor do I claim to.

If we do not know or understand these answers, then how are we to avoid replicating the same kind of structures that we have now, and ending up just doing it in a cooler way?

Activists have different allegiances to different economic models. There is the libertarian Marxist way, the anarchist way, the participatory economic way, and so on. Who is to say which one might be better than another? What is most important is to consider the relevance of what you propose to the people who are suffering the economic injustices that you care about. In my field, we call this Applied Anthropology. It’s direct action based on the wishes of the people you serve. How do the alternatives we wish to explore affect the people involved all the way down the line? How do they affect the content of the zines and articles and speeches we produce, and the content of our dialogues and debates? What direction do THEY hope for us to take, if we fight on their behalf? How can we be sure to propose and implement alternatives that have deep understanding of the class and structural problems we’re addressing? And do those people actually favor the models we propose?

I took a class at a Seventh Day Adventist Church to learn about overcoming poverty. Each student had a wealthy mentor, who volunteered because they wanted to understand the realities of homelessness and systemic poverty. This was a long term project, two years. These mentors were not progressive activists. They were privileged upper class people with hearts of love and compassion for the suffering. And they learned a lot, as did we. What are WE doing to learn about the people whose lives we wish to change? This is a good example of seeking relevance.

Remember, no matter what alternative economic model you embrace as an activist, remember to deeply consider the values and principles on which you are basing your assumptions and conclusions. Remember to be humble, to be open and to not be attached to how you think about things. Remember to be welcoming, to foster solidarity with the people you serve, as well as with fellow activists of any stripe. This will give you the power to have real impact in real lives and situations. Remember that the alternatives we create and support must embody the values we claim to hold, and they must actually empower the people we whose lives we hope to improve. So discover what those values are, before you latch onto any one particular model for change.

Revolution does NOT happen overnight, nor does it happen in an immediate overthrow of the current paradigms. It starts in the grassroots, community, and everyday workplace realms. And it never ends. It takes years of organizing, making mistakes, and building a resource base before true revolution takes hold. We are in this for the long haul.

Power to the People!

Power to the People!

Hey friends!

We are a tribe of activists, artists, focalizers, visionaries, 

project builders, networkers, nomads, adventurers, cultural creatives--

people who want to work together, with love, in cooperation and harmony, 

to help build a more just and sustainable world for us all.

To do that, we communicate and visit with one another,

promote conscious events, help each other with our projects, and more.

We would love to have you join with us,

and bring your friends with you!

Together in UNITY we have strength and power

to subvert the dominant paradigms,

and create a good future for us all.

Please visit us on Facebook

so we can chat and keep up to date 

with what is happening in our network!

Take care and take it easy.

We look forward to growing our circle of friends and allies,

and we wish you all the best in your arts and activism.

Please connect with us, and let's be friends!

It's Time for a Love Revolution

What are the New American Revolution and the New American Dream? 

The Dream is the means by which to accomplish the Revolution. 

~the“Revolution Renaissance Medicine Show”

The New American Revolution is a movement in the hearts of the people that has never died. It's the kind of revolution we all want and need. Still just as much, and stronger than ever. This revolution is about taking back our world by shedding apathy and fear, and then living by actively being the changes we wish to see in the world. We do this personally, collectively and globally. We do this socially, ecologically, politically, and economically, as well as spiritually an d philosophically.

We exist to show you that it’s happening for real, and that we are living the dream that makes it happen, as well. If you need a light to find your way, we can show you a few ways 

that it’s currently being done.

Revolution is a very long process, taking many decades, and we live in amazing times of sociocultural renaissance and revolution. 

We stand on the shoulders of giants and hand off a better new world 

to the ones that follow us. 

We do this by working together, in solidarity, invigorating, 

liberating and empowering one another.

We need to gather the collective resources and people power

of a good part of the 99%, to transition out of the old paradigms 

and to transform this into a humane, sustainable, harmonious society. 

We do the revolution on all levels, political, economic, cultural, 

by growing gardens, building homesteads and communities, 

forming co-ops and collectives, educating children as though they are conscious beings, 

with power to activate and change the world for the better...

We do this for the next generations, to the Seventh Generation and beyond, 

and we do this for reparation of damage to the Earth by us and our ancestors.

We stand at the pique of a powerful crossroads, of movements that have been fermenting for decades, seeing and knowing that we are finally reaching the critical mass tipping points 

that could send us to either the abyss,

or into a new world, a world that resonates on a truth frequency, 

where harmony is a vibration that everyone wants to attune to, 

and live in cooperation and consciousness, rather than competition and consumption.

We need to collectively build the New American Dream as the New World Now—most especially a

network of linked projects and homesteads and communities, each one different and each one willing

to welcome activists in our network for residencies, volunteer work for the community or project, and

also paid work to fund their mission as a traveling activist crew. We could also have other crews that

fulill the New American Dream, (such as a Vending Crew to go to Music Festivals)

The New American Dream is to either be a financially stable nomad with the freedom to travel as a

lifestyle, or to own a sustainable homestead which would be a home basis for a healthy way to live,

with urban or permaculture gardening, natural architecture, natural power generation, 

creative self employment, and more. 

The dream, either as a homeowner or traveler, is to be free to travel, to stay at

awesome places, to generate income with self employment, and live a life of creativity, joy and

freedom. Most of the locations where we have an outpost or a headquarters or a project, will be

near a power beauty spot, like the one in Rhode Island being near Narangansett Beach, so activists

have a place to plug in and recharge, as they plug in, participate and move along to reinvigorate other

areas and projects. Many or all will be near colleges.

The theme of this New World Now edition of the zine is about the New American Dream, as shown by the projects in our network, and the New American Revolution, which these lifestyles of social justice activism and communitarianism strive to manifest. 

We are putting ourselves out there in the lovely

trenches and along the grafitti laden front lines, 

to show that we CAN live the New American Dream,

which strengthens and invigorates the New American Revolution.

This movement is so awesome that it actually is changing lives and communities, empowering us all to be the changes we wish to see in the world, by actually living what we believe, and practicing it in our daily lives and in our choices.

THE NEW WORLD RISING ZINE

reawaken reactivate rebirth

2014 New World Now Edition

As we collaborated and had our creative brainstorms, in putting together this epic edition of the zine,

we realize more and more that there truly is a New American Revolution well under way.

It is alive and well, in the hearts of people everywhere.

And the truth is, living the New American Dream 

is the means by which to accomplish this revolution.

The New American Dream is to take back our lives, our voices, our personal and collective power,

our cultural and capital resources, take it all back

and live lives of true freedom, community, cooperation and collaboration.

Real humyn life, not enslaved by old paradigms....

So, the way to take back this power, to take back our lives, is to live the New American Dream,

which has really always lived in the hearts of people everywhere, but is now urgently wished for

by uncountable masses..The real dream is to either own a sustainable homestead and be a home base

for community and neotribal type living, or to be a stable and secure nomad, who has the freedom to travel, to volunteer at a network of projects, and to earn money to continue on the mission…

The mission is to live the dream, and inspire others to do the same, in enough numbers that large scale societal change spreads like a healthy virus. 

Self replicating memes that activate our sociocultural evolution, and get us

where we need to be to stop the insanity, stop the trashing of the Earth, stop the descent into hell that humanity seems headed for, and instead join together as humanity in ways that real people have always preferred, which is to be tribal, cooperative, good natured, caring, balanced, 

in harmony with the world around them.

The theme of this year's 2014 Edition of the New World Rising Magazine is 

Building the New World Now. 

You will see themes of revolution and evolution, of personal and collective activism,

and of people actually living the Life, the kind of life that makes the revolution we all hope for…

but we have to do it together, both personally and collectively.

So what are you doing with your life? Do you have a new American dream?

Do you want a new American revolution, 

a peaceful revolution of replacing old paradigms and life ways

with new ones that are truly humyn and truly planetary as well?

By being the change we wish to see in the world, the world becomes what we wish to see and to be

Merging the Arts with Our Activism

How can we as grassroots activists merge our love of the arts with our activism? We make the best activist art when we act on what we are passionate about, as a way to compel the creation of the art, whether its graffiti, zines, drama, film, or any other art form. We express ourselves best in regards to the things we are most passionate about. We do this in our own voices and our own style, not assimilated into the mainstream consciousness, but rather sustained by our own self replicating memes, that we create as activist artists.

It's time to believe in our passions and our dreams again. We must be so bold as to trust in our dreams of a better world, and believe in our fellow artists and activism. We do well to feed each other with activist art that empowers the peaceful revolutions for which we all stand and struggle. We can use art to inspire and activate people, including ourselves, to have faith again...faith in our own creations and stories, faith in our goals of true peace and true justice, faith in the vitality of our common struggles together.

Mass media, including all art forms, have at times been used by the dominant culture to manipulate the masses, to negotiate social engineering across generations, to turn our own creativity against us, by calling us mad weirdos and such. So we take back our creative power, and we make art about it. In doing so, we set ourselves free of the bland cages of the slave masters, and allow ourselves to expand into our true humanity.

Activist art includes many forms, but the most commonly recognized one is protest art. Protest art includes such things as zines, signs, banners, graffiti, and any other art form used by activists to communicate a particular movement, cause or message. Its a way for social justice activists to perform visual actions that make something very clear to the observer. Protest art is often used in demonstrations, but it can be found anywhere that a conscious person chooses to put together the materials that make the art. All it requires is passion and effort.

People who happen to be social justice activists as well as artists tend to be people with intelligent thoughts of dissent. They have chosen to dismantle their own paradigms and programming, and they have chosen to love and struggle for what they believe in. They do not surrender to apathy or depression, or for that matter, anger or hatred. They create art with that passion. They convey messages of liberation, activation, and empowerment through the visual arts, to the masses. The more intelligent, social justice activists who are creating conscious art, the more powerful we are as a movement, a renaissance, a flowering of humanity in these desperate times.

As grassroots activists with a penchant for the arts, we can reclaim our lives, our power and our freedom with such activities as graffiti, especially stencil tags, we can reclaim our educations by telling true stories and visually expressing true realities, we can claim public spaces for communal art, we can teach art and activism to the younger generations, and show them how its done all over the world. 

Arts + Activism= Awesomeness

Bless and Be Blessed

To Do List For Every Day

Search out a forgotten friend.

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Write a loving letter.

Share some treasure.

Answer softly.

Encourage the young.

Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.

Keep a promise.

Find the time.

Mend a quarrel.

Forego a grudge.

Forgive an enemy.

Listen.

Apologize if you were wrong.

Try to understand.

Flout envy.

Examine your demands on others.

Think first of someone else.

Appreciate, be kind, be gentle.

Laugh a little more.

Deserve confidence.

Take up arms against malice.

Decry complacency.

Express your gratitude.

Gladden the heart of a child.

Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.

Speak your love.

Speak it again.

Speak it still again.

Speak it still once again.

Thank Creator for this gift of today

*Remain Blessed*

Music Festivals as a Movement for Social Justice

Music Festivals as a Movement for Social Justice

The Music Festival Movement began for many people with Woodstock, during the radical times of the 1960’s. It grew in the hotbed of the civil rights movements, but has evolved cross-culturally to keep our activist hearts alive. It became a way of life that supports our values and life ways, and it has spread like wildfire all over the world. It’s multigenerational, multicultural and crosses all spectrums. It constantly plants self replicating memes that compel our sociocultural evolutions.


Festivals now advocate and promote everything on the fringe, everything diverse that promotes adaptation and survival, that is crying for manifestation—raising of consciousness, building of communities both physical and cyber, awareness of issues such as decriminalization of marijuana….


Where the movement once sought radical sociopolitical transformations, its now concerned with building community, and changing individuals as well as political and social institutions. These festivals are cultural activities that nurture sociopolitical consciousness.Thus, the music festival culture supports sociopolitical action as well as personal transformation. Burning Man, EvolveFest, Cannastock, and many more reflect this consistently, year after year.

While the world appears to be going crazy and going down in flames, festivals provide a climate in which to stay the course. Stresses such as the economy and politics make people need to bond together to seek solace in one another, thereby drawing together like minds, and minds ready to awaken, and focus them all on the issues at hand. The Occupy Movement also raised the stakes tremendously.

Bonding at festivals has kept our resolve to fight the “Powers that Be” alive and well. People then go back to their own communities and plant the memes and compel even further movements and growth, thereby reinvigorating sociopolitical change even more..

Protests have shown that they alone are not enough to keep the movements alive. We also need festivals to keep our movements alive. It’s a symbiotic relationship that is fed off of the political climate and that feeds it as well. If festivals were confined to the subcultures, they could become self-insulating and just have a limited life of their own, but no, they are inclusive of all people, and so they thrive on the constant input of new ideas, new music, new styles and life ways that are a tremendous source of inspiration and empowerment.

Festivals are like a foundational base for ongoing growth of the movements they promote. They are fertile ground for plugging in and taking action, for actually being the change we wish to see in the world. They compel collective action for change, as well as activate individuals for personal change. Festivals represent the culture of our sociopolitical movements.

The Festival movement is a direct result of the external, mainstream culture. Too many aspects of postmodern life cause terrible unhappiness, and so humans create alternatives to feed our souls and keep us going. This movement has been successful at changing mainstream culture. Internally, this movement has developed its own sub cultures as well, with symbols, rituals, rhetoric, and values that can be used as resources in pursuing goals and as sources of solidarity that help bring in new participants and keep activists committed.



Movements can bring about social change by shaping public discourse or otherwise altering existing culture. Icons such as Woody Harrelson, who has attended many good festivals, have done a lot to inspire and grow it even more.



The connections between the Festival Movement and Collective Action are clear. They are expressions of common values that must be expressed, to depressurize the rage and depression that would take so many under. We are energized, overjoyed and empowered by it.

Freeing Ourselves by Freeing the Sacred Herb

Social Justice and Spiritual Activism for Cannabis: 

Freeing Ourselves by Freeing the Sacred Herb

Let’s face it, we need a new paradigm in social justice activism, one that’s focused on supporting positive social change based on spiritual values, such as interconnectedness and collaboration. Militant opposition to external forces has burned out many a passionate activist, but those like Ghandi, who keep their focus on the spiritual, can maintain their commitments for the long haul. The human spirit seems designed to always seek a return to what feeds the soul, to what is internal and energizing. In light of that, it's helpful to explore a new activist paradigm that is based in spirituality. I would be so bold as to say that cannabis has been a beneficial influence to the spirituality of many current activists.

During recent human history, we’ve seen huge developments of technology, exhaustion of natural resources, and environmental degradation. We see hugely unequal distributions of wealth and opportunities, and unequal power and control in the military, politics and economics. What is a spiritually oriented activist truly concerned about social justice to do?

For many of us, we focus not only on addressing these crucial issues, but also on the evolution of human spiritual life. Human life has become isolated and lonely, as postmodern delusions have replaced the ancient ties between people and all elements of the cosmos. A beautiful way to focus your spiritual activism is on building alternatives to these destructive paradigms, and restoring spiritual elements to human life..

Many activists make regular use of cannabis, not only smoking the herb to enhance creativity, connectedness and collaboration, but also using the products of industrial hemp to replace paper that causes tree loss, and cannabis oil to fight all manner of dis-ease.

Yet there is a massive War on Drugs, with a long history aimed at oppressing both the awakening of humanity and the helpful uses of cannabis products and the spiritual and medicinal uses of marijuana. We literally fight for our spiritual and physical health, against a system determined to keep it down.Social justice activists for the liberation of cannabis focus on replacing attitudes of competition, coercion and oppression by fostering attitudes of collaboration, cooperation and coexistence. We align our activism with the principles of humanitarianism—to protect and improve not only our own lives but others lives as well. We fight for social justice for all aspects of cannabis use, for the benefit of both ourselves and humanity at large, thereby restoring a sense of collective life, as humans have lived all along.

Cannabis helps people to feel our interconnectedness, and oppression of it leads to an overwhelming sense of disconnectedness, isolation and loneliness. Therefore, our advocacy of cannabis must be expressed in our values, principles and direct action.

Human (r)evolution is about finding a way to change the nature of each human being, as well as our institutions, so that we manifest improvements in society as a whole. We know that happiness does not lie exclusively in changing the exterior details of life, it also involves changing our inner selves. We must be the change we wish to see in the world, so we begin with ourselves. And many of us begin to make those changes by using cannabis.

The War on Drugs is therefore a War on People, a War on our Humanity, and a War on our Interconnectedness with all Life. That makes it an unjust war, and it makes it a necessary target of our social justice activism and direct action. We must aim to overcome the suppression of our freedom and work to elevate our lives above the devastations of the War on Drugs, especially as it relates to cannabis. Cannabis can restore spirituality, physical health, and the ecosystems. It can literally save the world, if it is liberated from the shackles of the power brokers and robber barons.

Cannabis, by helping to activate our pineal glands, compels us to commit our lives to actual truth and nonviolence, and to act for the service of humanity. We seek to resist injustice and exploitation, and to work for the betterment of all people. The many incredible uses of cannabis have been demonstrated again and again, from industrial hemp to medical marijuana to cannabinoid oils and everything in between. Its really and truly a plant that can save the world.

The current paradigms in politics and economics foster attitudes that are hierarchical and pyramidic. They are power driven, profit driven, materialistic and competitive. They cannot solve the problems we confront, and in fact they exacerbate them.. This indicates that we need new paradigms that actually serve the needs of the twentifirst century. Activists for social justice focus on collaboration, the common good, and global concerns for justice and sustainability, which is much closer to what we need in a new paradigm.

Our leadership as social justice activists requires us to act collectively for the people, in order to effect positive change, for the individual, the community, society as a whole, and the Earth itself. In this light, all of us are potential leaders for social justice, if we work to accomplish these greater purposes.

Social justice activism springs from the needs of our souls, not from power and corruption. Our souls are capable of transcending all the bullshit and committing to the tasks at hand. Cannabis is obviously central to much of the healing that we can accomplish, and so we do well to focus on it. Using cannabis with respect and consciousness compels our growing awareness of the experiences and needs of others, and feeds our brainstorming of solutions by which we can accomplish our solutions.

Cannabis for many of us has greatly enhanced our spiritual lives, and led us to serious commitment to ways of thinking and behaving that honor the principles of interbeing and interconnectedness. It even ties in with Deep Ecology and Ecopsychology, which are more and more widely recognized as valid treatments for postmodern ennui. The more aware we are of the sacredness of the web of life, the more pro-social and active we become, because we feel responsible not only for ourselves but for everyone and all of it. This sense of responsibility is what cultivates our activities for peace and social justice, which lead to real social change.

I would be so bold as to say that for most community activists, our spirituality plays a vital role in our commitment to our activism, and for many of us, cannabis is a basic element of it. When we feel good and full of positive energy, this affects our entire existence. It increases our functionality on all levels, so that we can perform our activism at our peak of wellness. So the War on Drugs is even more unjust, because by depriving humanity of this medicinal herb, they are depriving us of our basic spirituality as humans. Spirituality is what gives rise to the compassion for others that compels our activism, which leads to the social change we work for. In order to work effectively for social change, which is really a battle against immoral and unethical forces, our higher selves must be active and functioning.


Spirituality plays a crucial role in activism for justice and social change. Cannabis is good medicine for activating our pineal glands, which are responsible for generating serotonin, regulating our sleeping and dreaming, and activating our creativity and imaginations. The oppression of cannabis therefore is in direct opposition to a healthy spiritual life, which is crucial to the commitment to coexistence and interconnectedness that compels social activism. This all makes it clear why its honorable for activists interested in social justice to fight for the liberation of cannabis in all its forms. In this sense, activism becomes a path to awakening, by defending and freeing the plant that awakened us in the first place and compelled our commitment to action.

The NWR Affordable Cohousing Project

The New World Rising Seeks 

Activists, Artists and Cultural Creatives 

to Form a Cooperative House in Cranston, RI

Kick off the new year with an affordable cooperative housing situation! The New World Rising Network is seeking activists, artists and cultural creatives, to form a co-op housing arrangement in Cranston, Rhode Island. We seek responsible, kind, creative people to develop and maintain our home base, while we do a community building and zine distribution tour thru the south..


This is a cooperative housing project, based on unity, direct action, and harmony. Good candidates to live here will have a loving heart and a welcoming vibe for us, for their housemates and for the people of our network who come to visit.


The structure is a family home in Cranston, RI, built in 1960., with three bedrooms and two baths upstairs, and a full finished basement with its own entrance downstairs. It has a nice yard, sheltered all around by bushes and mature fruit trees. The full basement provides floor space for visitors in our network, who come to develop projects. You must be kind to visitors from our network, and share access to the family home with our network, except for the personal space of the bedroom you rent.


The full basement will also be equipped with computer access, an activist library, space to make music and room to work on cottage industries. We plan to develop the yard space with an expanded garden, a fresh sandbox for kids, and a rebuilt fire pit, in order to host potlucks and meetings. Plan to be flexible as minor repairs are made to the home.


There's off street parking for three or four cars, and the area is flat, if you prefer to ride a bike. The house is less than five miles to downtown Providence, RI, on the bus line, near a bike trail, and near a library. Reasonable smoking is ok. Reasonable, happy noise is ok. Animal residents are considered on a case by case basis.


Rooms will be available beginning in January of 2015. Rent is $400 per bedroom plus your share of the utilities, split evenly among all housemates. There's a $200 deposit. We would like you to commit to staying for at least three to six months. You will receive a full refund of your deposit when you move out with everything in good condition and everything on good terms.


If you have a green thumb, it's possible for you to get a medical card from the state, set up a grow room, and sell cannabis to a dispensary in Rhode Island. It must be done legally, and it could be a great source of regular income, for the person with the right skills. If you know how to vend at festivals, we find that very valuable too, and we want to know you, as vending is another income stream on which we'd like to rely, as we tour and distribute our zines. If you are a musician of reggae, folk, or similar music, we like that too, especially if you have cool friends who want to jam and hang out. We love musicians who activate people with conscious vibes.


Please email us at newworldrisingnetwork@gmail.com if you'd like to do this with us, so we can launch this great project to provide affordable cooperative housing to activists, artists and cultural creatives. Together, we build the new world now!




PS. Good candidates must have a reliable income, because we seek to keep everything running

smoothly, regarding house payments and utilities.

The NWR Call to Action

The New World Rising Call to Action

Ask yourself,

“What kind of country, world, future, do we want to be living in?”

Who is going to solve the many crises we face?

Who is going to create the

cooperative world that we all need?

YOU need to do it.

No rich politician bought by

corporate money,

no multinational corporation,

the 1 %, will NOT save the world.

YOU, the New Generation,

YOU need to Save the World.

Only organized Peoples Power can

save the world.

And you, the new generation,

need to be the VISIONARIES, 

the inspiration, the spark, 

the ORGANIZERS of the

New Peoples Power

World Transformation Movement.

These are times of great turmoil and challenge.

These are times of great opportunity.

It is only in times like these

that great world transformations can happen.

You have the Opportunity and the Responsibility 

to be the generation that

will be remembered for ages…

You can be the generation who created the massive 

social, economic, and world transformational changes

that will move the world into the next stage 

of co-operative humyn evolution.

It’s up to each of us,

activists, artists, visionaries and focalizers 

to put forth the effort and the energy

to manifest the trans-formative

visionary projects necessary.

Together we Build a New World for us all,

a world of freedom, joy, and abundance for all peoples, 

all creatures, and all ecosystems of the Earth.

To do this we need to develop

Networks of

Consciousness,

Culture, Communications,

Connections, Cooperation,

Coordination, Community

Creation.

The Hipstory of New World Rising

Our roots stretch back to the early 1980’s, when we connected

with the dynamic punk, reggae, and hip hop scenes in Providence, Rhode Island.

We organized many events, including May Day, Peace and Freedom festivals, and demonstrations.

We circulated countless copies of the NWR paper magazines, on Dead Tour, all across the nation.

In 1986, we printed the first issue of the New World Rising magazine, as part of our

“disrupt the war party” campaign in NYC. During the campaign, we developed strong connections with the anarchists and squatters in NYC. 

In 1987, we connected with the Rainbow Family of Living Light at the National Gathering in North Carolina, seeing people living alternative lifestyles in the here and now. 

In 1988, we connected with the Grateful Dead tour and did three tours a year until the death of Jerry Garcia. We distributed from 10-30,000 copies of the magazine per tour.

New World Rising magazine continued into the late 1990’s, with 30 issues and about 1 million copies being created and distributed. 

Going on tour with the Dead was our primary means to reach the cultural creatives, with NWR spreading our network nationally and internationally. This brought in waves of messages of peace and love, especially from young womyn.

NWR transformed into a communicator and connector for the peace and love and music

world transformation movement. Our distribution peaked in the summer of 1989 at 50,000 copies. We continued touring and distributing and connecting until Jerry died in ‘95.

In 1992, Grateful Fred, the founder of New World Rising, bought an abandoned house in the oppressed neighborhood of South Providence, Rhode Island, to start our Build the New World Now project, by fixing it up into our Sassafras House cooperative living project, with a desired focus on activists, musicians, and artists. Hundreds of people lived there over the 12 years that it continued.

Over the years, we rehabbed Sassafras house and developed an inner city cooperative living experiment. Living together, we had activists, artists, musicians, construction workers, mainly young people and also many otherwise homeless people struggling to survive. We had good times and we had plenty of bad times. We all learned a lot from the experience.

We went into a dilapidated drug and violence prone neighborhood and planted the Rainbow flag of peace, love, caring, sharing and networking together to make the world a better place. We helped many of our neighbors fix up their homes and shared many a spliff with neighborhood youth. We made many friends from our “hippie house” base. But throughout the project, financial responsibility by most of the residents was lacking, and this led to the end of that experiment in 2004.

After that, our core scattered to NY, CO, FL, RI, and other places, 

each doing their thing in the transformation process. 

Now in 2012, the movement intensifies as the imperial system disintegrates.

And New World Rising ‘zine is born again.

2012: the year to SHINE!!!

We Are The New Civilization

We dance to the rhythm of creation.
We face the unknown with wonder and excitement.

We are messengers from the future, 
living in the present.

We come from silence, 
and we speak our truth.

We cannot be quieted, 
because our voice is within everyone.

We have no enemies, no boundaries, 
we are the New Civilization. We are here.

We are waking up now, 
out of the past, to dream a bigger dream.

We are friends and equals, 
we are diverse and unique,

and we're united for something bigger 
than our differences.

We believe in freedom and cooperation, 
abundance and harmony.

We are a culture emerging, 
a renaissance of the essence of humanity.

We find our own guidance, 
and we discern our own truth.

We go in many directions, 
and yet we refuse to disperse.

We have many names, 
we speak many languages.

We are local, we are global.

We are in all regions of the world,

we're everywhere in the air.

We are universe being aware of itself,

we are the wave of evolution.

We are in every child's eyes, old us.

We respect the cycles and 
expressions of nature,
 for we are nature.

We don't play to win, 
we play to live and learn.

We act out of inspiration, 
love and integrity.

We explore, we discover, 
we feel, and we laugh.

We are building a world 
that works for everyone.

We endeavor to live our lives 
to their fullest potential.

We are independent, 
self-sufficient and responsible.

We relate to each other in peace, 
with compassion and respect,

We unite in community.

We celebrate the wholeness 
within and around us all.

We weave the threads of the new times.

We are the new civilization.