Trevor Blake points out that pm’s “Liberating Wednesday” is 52 times more radical than “Buy Nothing Day”
On Wednesdays friends get together, every house is an open house, conflicts are talked about, neighborhood problems are discussed. The Machine can only be dismantled if new, noneconomic social forms emerge. People with the same ideas about life must get together, develop common visions and practical plans. It is not necessarily so, that your actual neighbors are the people you would try to live a new life with. The accidents of the real estate market are not the best basis for new communities. So you eventually gather from across the city or a whole region.
On Wednesdays you can also do practical work. Communal gardens, neighborhood lounges, workshops, soft energy systems, house repairs, communal baths, restaurants, swimming-pools, require work. You can also call it “learning”, social activity, creating independent communities, being together or just fun. Ultimately only relatively large (500 people) communities, that are semi-autarcic on food, energy and health-care can safely get us off the hooks of the Machine. To create such communities (bolos) we need some time now, we need some training, a strong cultural identity.
Wednesday will be our think-day, social day, cultural day, ecological day, community-day, bolo-day, land-day (each bolo needs about 250 acres some place outside the city), planet-day, exchange-day (barter-markets), health-day (work some, but not too much), squatting-day, anti-car-day, anti-work-day etc. On Wednesdays everything that is now repressed, forgotten, divided, being neglected will find time and space.
PDX Occulture has its meetups on Thursdays, so we kinda miss the mark, but I find it in the same spirit.
Justin Boland has an interesting Wednesday habit – World Design Wednesday.
More from pm: bolo’bolo
November 29, 2008 at 1:36 am
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but wednesday is new comics day…
November 29, 2008 at 1:45 am
I experience weekly cognitive disonance because Portland Occulture occurs on a day that is not Wednesday.
November 29, 2008 at 1:48 am
PM’s ‘Liberating Wednesday’ was also ten years ahead of ‘Buy Nothing Day.’
November 29, 2008 at 5:28 am
Bolo Bolo was very inspiring for me
March 5, 2009 at 8:09 pm
JVC
I think few people agree with you, but I am among them.
ksoleifdjj388
April 30, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Wednesday will be our think-day, social day, cultural day, ecological day, community-day, bolo-day, land-day (each bolo needs about 250 acres some place outside the city), planet-day, exchange-day (barter-markets), health-day (work some, but not too much), squatting-day, anti-car-day, anti-work-day etc. On Wednesdays everything that is now repressed, forgotten, divided, being neglected will find time and space.