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Weekly Roundup | March 29, 2026

Chaos and Conviviality

29 Mar 2026 — 3 min read

Happy Sunday 🐉! This week, we put out two pieces. One is theory-oriented, discussing the activities that social movement orgs can do. This is part of the ongoing Organizing 100 series that discusses foundational ideas around making the world suck less. The other piece is about the Abundance thing Ezra Klein and them are trying to put together, with an eye on how it impacts Native communities.

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Marginalia

Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.

Organizations can be useful as spaces for building up the capacity for social movements to make the changes that they're striving for. This perspective should be, at the very least, approached with a healthy dose of anti-organizational critiques in tow. That helps stem the tendency for folks to just recreate hierarchies with themselves at the top. Some texts that can help in understanding the theory, methods, and practices of care, analysis, and action are The Solidarity Economy Association's The Solidary Economy, Premilla Nadasen's Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, and Gaston Leval's Libertarian socialism: a practical outline.
The "Abundance movement" makes it clear that non-radical politics are often just different sides of the same coin. This is a big part of why C&C advocates for what we do; talking the talk of change can be as powerful of a tool to entrench the status quo as anything else, if it's not paired with effective action. We're still developing this in more concrete terms, but a big start is advocating for degrowth (with teeth) and tying that to a biting critique of technocratic tendencies. This holds, whether they are Fordist-Taylorist, Libertarian Socialist, (anarchist) cybernetic, or whatever DOGE is/was doing, especially as it relates to conversations around the increase of nuclear energy. The gist is this: society is not a machine (or if it is, it is as ecological and social as it is mechanical), so treating social issues solely as engineering and/or design problems is wrongheaded. With this lens in mind, some good things to check out are Dr. Fatima's video "Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society?" and James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. For this specific story and context, it would be good to look into Honor the Earth, an org working towards indigenous sovereignty, with a campaign against data centers.