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Introduction to the Comprehensive Transformation and Unification Strategy #p2 #p2b #ideas #unity #wctc

It's critical to our success that you understand the Unity Network approach to bringing needed change in our society. Understanding our goals will help you decide whether you wish to be involved and how you can help. There are three phrases which best describe our strategy:

While it may look like there is so much going on with this work, our focus is very specific: we are creating a single, prioritized comprehensive plan that includes many aspects of society.  Our goal is not the usual step-by-step linear change tactic.  There are 1,000s of groups that concentrate on activities to accomplish singular areas of change. We do not need another linear change-based organization in the world.  We are one of the only organizations working on a model of a transformative comprehensive plan.  It may not work, and it may not be the best methodology or strategy, as it is still possible the linear step-by-step change-based strategy is more effective, but it is essential there is a more comprehensive option, as we are getting deeper and deeper into challenging and more complex times. 

To explain the idea of transformation versus linear change, we can use the caterpillar to the butterfly metamorphosis analogy.  The transformation is comprehensive and takes place at every level of the caterpillar simultaneously to create the butterfly.  Likewise, our strategy is to encourage transformation of society through a comprehensive plan that targets many societal issues simultaneously versus taking one issue at a time.

The comprehensive plan will contain a variety of ideas, programs, projects, and organizations, and involve a democratic prioritization system between all the different goals and movements of society.  For example, instead of 100 petitions for 100 different issues, we will be creating a single petition demanding from our elected and non-elected decision makers of the planet implementation of the entire comprehensive plan to address all issues simultaneously.  It's really that simple.  Realistically, those 100 issues would initially be narrowed to 10 or so. 

Another way of looking at this concept is pitting women's rights against gay rights, against ending the slave trade/sex trade, against animal rights, against you name it . . . there are so many crisis and issues going on in the world that are interconnected.  Why should one movement's rights be more important than another's?  We want UNITY between all of these Movements, where they intersect. What we are saying is simply that we want ALL of it, and we want ALL of it NOW!   At some point someone in the world needs to stand up and say, it is not enough for just me to get my rights at the expense of other people staying oppressed.  The all or nothing stance is a dangerous one though, and it is really just a negotiating block, but nonetheless an important option that needs to be considered in the context of doing unto others what you would want them to do for you.

The key to understanding comprehensive transformation, and this is the same for the caterpillar, is knowing that everything looks the messiest and craziest right at the point of transformation.  And then, and only then, does everything settle into order and stability.  In many ways, this is exactly what is going on in that our whole society is getting more and more chaotic, and this is essentially what happens when arriving at a transformation moment.  Our Network has the goal of Uniting a society that is in a chaotic state, so that chaotic state is reflected somewhat in our network, but simultaneously we are building in structure so that it makes sense.

Our primary focus, at this point in time, is on the Community Elections, where we take this huge "soup" of chaos and confusion of issues, ideas, movements, actions, and projects, and prioritize them into a nice neat list of goals. While we must focus on one step at a time, our intent is to fully meet the goals of the comprehensive plan. The best way to do this is to focus on the issue of all issues, the movement of all movements, the key issue that can be the catalyst for everything else to fall into place.  And that issue, for us, is simply the winner of the Community Elections.  From there everything will follow.  

It could take months or even years to get to that point of having a clear focus.  For now we have a "soup" of possibilities, more or less the same as it was during the occupy movement, which also saw this soup of options with no clear focus.  We are just taking that one step further to attempt to bring order from chaos.

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