''Cooperative Prosperity & Advanced Democracy"
We stand at the crossroads of crisis and possibility. Difficult times lie ahead, bringing challenges that will test our communities, our resilience, and our ability to work together. 'Prepare and Adapt Hubs' grow out of a conviction that we can meet these challenges by building strength where it matters most:- in our local communities.
Out of necessity our lives will be forged through shared effort, collective care, and the courage to ready ourselves for the transition. Meet, connect, and establish groups focused on cooperatives, resilience, and new business ventures. Build the relationships, skills, and local capacity we will need to face the growing delusion and uncertain times, where we create new possibilities and move towards an advanced democracy.
Our task is not simply to react to reformist only failings, but to shape the way forward: expanding human potential, and building communities that leave no one behind.
In unity we reclaim the meaning of society: a fabric woven from creativity and shared purpose.
OurHubs begins with that possibility.
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Local Hub Register. Indicate your interest for this local hub only if you live in one of the following South Australian postcode districts: 5114, 5113, 5115, 5109, 5116, 5117, 5118, 5121, 5125, 5131, or 5133. This is a local hub website, so registration is intended for residents living within these designated postcode areas.
Join the website Forum to meet others and discuss setting up groups. Join the Give & Take exchange to share resources, skills, and support. Use the Hub Register to connect with others, whereby Facilitators help you organize, collaborate, and build connections.
The Crisis & Transition Substack shows us how to anticipate and create a strategy for a sustainable future out of the transition caused by breakdown and collapse. Cutting edge articles by social writers point the way forward.
Facilitator Teams
Help Build the Community Around You
Become an OurHubs Team Volunteer Facilitator and help turn local ideas, skills and connections into meaningful action.
Bring people together to build enterprises, strengthen community-led initiatives, and help your community prepare for and adapt to a more cooperative and resilient future.
As a Facilitator, you can contribute to meaningful work, access incentives for participation, build strong community associations, and develop ventures and initiatives of your own — while helping create the connections that make a stronger local community possible.
Applications are assessed according to the district or suburb where you live, based on your residential postcode/ZIP code.
One organization at the vanguard of reviving local industries and escaping the extremely precarious grip of globalization that hinders local resilience, self-sufficiency, job creation, and wealth retention is Local Futures.
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Our Future is Their Future
Facing Change With Clarity & Courage
We are entering a period of significant change and breakdown. Across our communities, there are individual activists, community leaders, and members of system-change organizations who recognize the difficult times ahead and are already developing practical ways to strengthen local resilience. Many are providing valuable leadership and creating initiatives in their own areas. Rather than continuing to work in parallel, however, we need greater collaboration, coordination, and a united effort. Our Hubs provide a practical framework for bringing people, ideas, skills, and initiatives together so that we can move forward collectively.
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Resilience is the capacity to cope with disruption and continue to function in positive ways. We build this capacity in government, groups and communities through strategy, leadership and collaboration - Australian Resilience Example.
Groups - OU61-5114-Smithfield
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Invitation To Share Your Ideas
Although the Local Forum will help shape the kinds of groups that form, we would love to hear from you beforehand.
Please send local facilitators your answers to the three questions below. Your ideas will help us explore a diverse range of possible groups and discover new ways for people to connect, participate, and support one another.
Tell us a little about yourself, what kinds of groups you might be interested in joining, and what you might prefer not to join. You are also very welcome to suggest other ways you could contribute or offer support, even if joining a group isn’t right for you.
There are no right or wrong answers — we simply want to hear a range of ideas and interests so that the Local Forum can reflect the people who take part, including three questions.
Please send your responses to the OurHubs email address:
OU16-5114-Smithfield@protonmail.com
THREE QUESTIONS
- applies to the following district post codes -
Q1: What Sort of groups would you participate in?
Q2: Do you believe we need to Prepare & Adapt now?
Q3: How would Our Hubs benefit you personally?
5114 : 5113 : 5115 : 5109 : 5116 : 5117 : 5118 : 5121 : 5125 : 5131 : 5133
These community hubs are about furthering readiness for the breakdown and collapse already underway, while contributing to a better framework for the future. They provide an opportunity to move beyond the limitations of conventional political democracy by exploring a more comprehensive ways that includes economic and personalized democracy. They also assist with enterprise and income opportunities.
Explore the potential of an Advanced Democracy—one designed to work for everyone's benefit, while respecting and sustaining our communities, our environment, and life itself. This democracy encompasses the Small Business, Cooperatives and Key Industry sectors and is about rational choices.
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Advertising in local hub OU61-5114-Smithfield is reserved for local ventures and social services in the following post code districts of Australia.
OU61-5114-Smithfield is a central hub linked to the following districts in Australia: 5113 : 5115 : 5109 : 5116 : 5117 5118 : 5121 : 5125 : 5131 : 5133