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We are a worldwide community, determined to use nonviolent noncooperation to fix the polycrisis, halt climate collapse, and replace this dying civilization with a sane, caring one.

The Saners Plan

by | Jan 21, 2025 | General

Working on new materials, and a concise description of The Saners Movement and our plans.

This is a draft—but it’s pretty good so it may become the final draft. In the coming weeks, as the Saners Movement establishes online and offline communities of caring people determined to use nonviolent noncooperation to disempower destructive forces, and to deal effectively with the polycrisis, we are preparing materials to help explain ourselves—and recruit new Saners.

We plan more videos, podcasts and an online course. We already have a website, a blog, a presence on social media (YouTube, FaceBook, Bluesky, more), a (beta) online community, an ongoing series of live video chats, downloadable signs and booklets, and more.

Please read and if The Saners appeals to you, visit our website and sign up for the group.

So, here’s the plan.

1. Objectives
The Saners intend to prevent climate collapse, and change the culture and values of our civilization worldwide. Our core values are love and generosity and caring about Life and Nature. Greed, selfishness, hatred, violence, power lust and narcissism will be deprecated.

2. Strategy
We intend to harness people power, applying proven strategies built on the principle of nonviolent noncooperation. We will disempower evil by not cooperating with it. We will initiate an escalating series of campaigns designed to weaken the ability of authorities and others to continue their abuse.

3. Tactics
We are developing specific tactics to use at appropriate times. The tactics will spread our messages, recruit new activists, and weaken support for (and cooperation with) cruel people and systems whether they are plutocrats, multi-national corporations, communist parties, or dictators.

The current situation worldwide appears to be dismal and getting worse. For many, it seems hopeless. Hatred and abuse look to be growing, with terrible instincts and behaviors getting support from an increasing number of fascist governments.

At the same time, the potential for a better world, a shockingly better world, is here. It is achievable. And we — ordinary people with no titles, no authority, no great wealth, and no apparent influence — are the ones best positioned to make it happen.

You see, in the past extraordinary leaders started and sustained great movements — and they were the key to success. Today we don’t have a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King. But because they blazed a path and left us a framework for change, we don’t need to be or be led by charismatic geniuses. We just need to learn the lessons that have been left to us, and that others have improved on over time. The framework we need exists. Everything we need is here.

And so, the key for The Saners is for us to learn. We must learn how to be an effective movement and we must practice our activism, our disobedience skills, so that we can execute our plans properly. This will enable to us to protect the planet so our children will inherit a habitable Earth. And we will also give them a better society, one that is built on benevolent values — almost the exact opposite from the worldwide culture of today.

To make this happen, we do NOT need everyone. We don’t even need a majority. Throughout history, it has always been a small group of dedicated people, and a wider group of less passionate supporters, who made the most significant changes. We do not need unanimity — but we need YOU. We need people who care, and even if you don’t have much time, your support in spreading our message is very, very helpful.

However, if you are more enthusiastic, and have a bit more time and energy…well, you can do even more. This matters. Today we are still a small (but growing) movement. We currently have members in more than 20 countries, and we are in more than half of the United States.

Sign up. Do it right this moment. That’s the first step. We will have opportunities for you to learn and act. We will have meetings to discuss things. We have a budding online community. We are starting to create local neighborhood communities that meet in person. We will distribute (captivating!) learning materials and offer free courses.

Most of all, we will be preparing to change the world. We mean to make it happen. This isn’t mere virtue signaling. This is the real thing. Sign up and welcome aboard!

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