Designing the Revolution

Anyone can come up with a cool plan but the real question is who is going to organise it - how are the decisions made - how do such people remain in service. These are the key questions of revolutionary transformation. The good news is that praxis based organising is moving beyond the sterile debate between "hierarchy" and "horizontalism". Without a firm centre there can be no sustainable healthy decentralisation. The two go together as this chapter explains. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

The media is not what it seems. The short form mainstream media interview is not a place to deliberate but a battle of wits. You don't answer questions because they are designed to humiliate you and/or trap you into reformist logics. The media is a site of action - disruption: verbal and physical. Long form interviews provide more opportunities to calmly take the criticism and yourself to be human in the face of dogmatic attack. Either way the name of the game is not to play the game. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

The media is not what it seems. The short form mainstream media interview is not a place to deliberate but a battle of wits. You don't answer questions because they are designed to humiliate you and/or trap you into reformist logics. The media is a site of action - disruption: verbal and physical. Long form interviews provide more opportunities to calmly take the criticism and yourself to be human in the face of dogmatic attack. Either way the name of the game is not to play the game. Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action theory is the principles of design we need to use to bring sociability into what is called “civil disobedience” - the nonviolent confrontation with injustice - the social spaces where you are disrupting the opponent. And getting attacked for it. How do you create polarisation to paradoxically reduce polarisation - increase social connection and thus social transformation? Sign up for more and to support Roger at rogerhallam.com

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 12 | Action Design How do you design social confrontation - focusing and fusing disruption with an openness to dialogue? This is critical to the whole project. Based upon the theoretical principles outlined in the previous two chapters I lay out the details of several designs, drawing upon historical examples. Experience in action laid the foundations of how to effective organise large scale civil resistance. Recorded live from Wandsworth Prison Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk, these podcasts were originally recorded from prison.

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 11 (Part 2 of 2) | Action Theory Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action theory is the principles of design we need to use to bring sociability into what is called “civil disobedience” - the nonviolent confrontation with injustice - the social spaces where you are disrupting the opponent. And getting attacked for it. How do you create polarisation to paradoxically reduce polarisation - increase social connection and thus social transformation?. Recorded Live from Wandsworth Prison, London, UK - January 2023 Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk these podcasts are recorded from prison. We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 11 (Part 1 of 2) | Action Theory Socialiability is nothing without confrontational action. People will not keep coming to meetings if there is nothing to do. Mobilisation and action then are two sides of the same coin - part of the same system. Action theory is the principles of design we need to use to bring sociability into what is called “civil disobedience” - the nonviolent confrontation with injustice - the social spaces where you are disrupting the opponent. And getting attacked for it. How do you create polarisation to paradoxically reduce polarisation - increase social connection and thus social transformation?. Recorded Live from Wandsworth Prison, London, UK - January 2023 Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk these podcasts are recorded from prison. We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 10 (Part 2 of 2) | Sociability Practice Introducing the theories of proximity and sociability into mobilisation designs has a massive impact on increasing the numbers of people coming into a civil resistance community and thus building the skills and knowledge, ready for the coming social disruptions. The focus has to be on the details of social interactions in small group settings. Recorded Live from Wandsworth Prison, London, UK - January 2023 Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk these podcasts are recorded from prison. We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 10 (Part 1 of 2) | Sociability Practice Introducing the theories of proximity and sociability into mobilisation designs has a massive impact on increasing the numbers of people coming into a civil resistance community and thus building the skills and knowledge, ready for the coming social disruptions. The focus has to be on the details of social interactions in small group settings. Originally recorded Live from Wandsworth Prison, London, UK - January 2023, but re-recorded on the 19 March 2023 due to a corrupted audio file. Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk these podcasts are recorded from prison. We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.

To financially support Roger Hallam and others involved in civil resistance: https://www.patreon.com/rogerhallam Designing the Revolution | Chapter 9 | Sociability Theory The key concept for the C21st century progressive revolution. Forget all the last century’s ism. We are looking at reclaiming the lifeworld of personal interaction and how we can operationise processes to take over the spaces of inhumanity politics. The revolution has to be about enhancing the human connectivity or it is no revolution at all. The key concept for the C21st century progressive revolution. Forget all the last century’s ism. We are looking at reclaiming the lifeworld of personal interaction and how we can operationise processes to take over the spaces of inhumanity politics. The revolution has to be about enhancing the human connectivity or it is no revolution at all. Recorded Live from Wandsworth Prison, London, UK - January 2023 Designing the Revolution U.N: No ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C degrees (October 2022) It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell. Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Roger Hallam has studied and designed social change for 35 years, he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade he knows his stuff. This series details the theory and practice of a completely new way of reimagining and renewing society. At this moment in time this is the most important podcast series in the world, even if few people get it; that it's now or never for humanity. Roger walks his talk these podcasts are recorded from prison. We're talking about real change here, no more blah blah blah.