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After three years of engaging deeply with the many, many responses to the multiple crises we face, we have come to the conclusion that people power is the biggest resource we have. How do you capture and transform the many forms of action on offer, into a more coherent whole?

A Citizens Action Network is our concept of how everything can come together in a local community. So that every kind of person living there can get access to the cosmo-local solutions available.

CANs are still proto-typing: help us shape them.

Join us on our A/UK Loomio forums, in the Design Democracy group (Already a co-creator? Sign in here. Not yet a co-creator? Sign in here, and you’ll be invited to our Action Forum on Loomio).

Presentation slides on making a CAN

Indra Adnan’s video presentation to the XR Future Democracy Hub on Making CANs

From the Daily Alternative tag on “Citizens Action Network”

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If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
Can you see like a superorganism? In polarised, antagonistic times, Richard Bartlett shows us how to perceive our “macro-beings”
Can you see like a superorganism? In polarised, antagonistic times, Richard Bartlett shows us how to perceive our “macro-beings”
In Sesotho, "fito" means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”. Fito Networks in South Africa aims at exactly that
In Sesotho, "fito" means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”. Fito Networks in South Africa aims at exactly that
Cosmolocalism and CANs - with locals and refugees - at Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and their market garden
Cosmolocalism and CANs - with locals and refugees - at Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and their market garden
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
Northern Heartlands are a CAN that helps communities story their past, present and future, so they can act with confidence and power
Northern Heartlands are a CAN that helps communities story their past, present and future, so they can act with confidence and power
Planet A is ALIVE! Ecocivilisation through the CAN of CANs
Planet A is ALIVE! Ecocivilisation through the CAN of CANs
"Top 5 Bowie songs: come in and argue". The public living room movement generates community power through friendliness, not militancy
"Top 5 Bowie songs: come in and argue". The public living room movement generates community power through friendliness, not militancy
Alter Natives: Deana Wildgoose from the Coalville CAN, on the creativity and joy released when communities take over buildings
Alter Natives: Deana Wildgoose from the Coalville CAN, on the creativity and joy released when communities take over buildings
"Stability, knowledge rooted firmly in the real world, and a fierce drive to make things better." Community power celebrated
"Stability, knowledge rooted firmly in the real world, and a fierce drive to make things better." Community power celebrated