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Collective Autonomy

The Collective Autonomy Network (CAN) facilitates people participating in the movement to collectively take care of each other's basic needs for a fulfilling life including Food, Shelter, Health, Resources, Information, and Community.

The CAN intends to pro-actively create this movement by directly addressing issues in our society, creating practical and effective projects to positively affect these issues, and spread the information and resources that make it easy for communities to implement these creative solutions (e.g: Really Really Free Markets, Infoshops, Food Not Bombs, Guerrilla Gardens, Community Acupuncture Network, Brydum Tandem Project NOLA, and many others).

The CAN is an intentionally decentralized movement that can use everybody's help. It predominately exists in the real people and projects in our streets and gardens, while this online portion serves as a resource to support that work. Please take part building this movement in your own communities while describing your progress on this website so others can benefit from your successes while helping alleviate your challenges.

List of CAN Principles

How to participate in Building Collective Autonomy:

Since the CAN is both a real physical network with projects to be worked on in every community as well as an online resource, there are wide variety of roles that can be filled by all sorts of people. Please consider what you roles best fit your talents and interests and start participating.
Current priorities for Building Collective Autonomy include:

• Finding key community organizers that can help coordinate and facilitate the development of CAN projects in their home communities and find people who want to add their community's information to the CAN website.
• Finding travelers and community point people to help build and maintain connections between the various communities.
• People to take part in building up the online resource of the CAN by helping add new content, further developing existing content, and help designing the site.

For a full list of available roles and resources for participating please click on Building Collective Autonomy and start contributing to the site, or contact us at can [at] riseup [dot] net to discuss the roles you want to take up.

(For resources to learn how to add content, edit, and format the website click on Editing Help)