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AnotherDemocracy.com is inspired by the often heard phrase “another world is possible.” We believe that to achieve another world, everyone must have an equal say in what that world looks like. We must create a true and knowledgeable democratic society. To this end, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding, as well as foster a space for dialog, by posting intellectual and activist experiences, studies, and data that illuminate more equitable ways that people and societies have (and do) live and organize themselves socio-politically. Whether it is consensus based direct democracy at an Occupy encampment, indigenous participatory democratic processes in the highlands of Peru, kinship politics in an historical Africa, or horizontal tribal political forms from antiquity; there are other ways of understanding what a democratic “rule by the people” looks like. These examples show us that a democracy does not have to be a corrupt privately funded representative electoral processes, in which corporations and the wealthy have disproportionate influence over candidates, whose messages speak to moneyed and powered interests. Another democracy is possible… it exists among us, has for millennia… Through this website, we hope not only to show other understandings of democracy that already exist, but more importantly, to foster a reimaging of – and illuminate pathways towards – a more pervasive and inclusive democracy where individuals and communities can genuinely achieve a rule by all the people, not just some of the people.

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