In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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- How to kill a popular government institution with us since the founding of the country before everyone's eyes
- Evil Neighbor Blues
- My grandfather is doing fantastic
- Update on Housing Demolotions in Bangalore, India
- In which the hospital attempts to fulfill my grandfather's death wish
- Update on Alfred Natkin from Cape Cod Hospital
- Doing What One Can Do
- Proposition 37 Million Dollars
- Andrew Judson Grice (1969-2012)
- Peasants and migrant workers rising up, organizing, and even winning in repressive China
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Benjamin Melançon Bio
Benjamin Melançon's About Me (self-important edition for conferences and grants and such)
Justice, liberty, and the self-organization we need for both drive me to get involved in lots of stuff. Some groups I support are the Fund for Authentic Journalism, Carlitos Café y Galeria in Spanish Harlem New York, Gringoyo Productions, and COA News.
I helped found and was elected to the board of directors of Amazing Things Arts Center, which seeks to build community through the arts. Now I run the center's annual fundraising auction web site.
As co-founder of Agaric Design Collective, I develop and maintain web sites for companies, organizations, and individuals, using (and creating) open source free software-- mostly Drupal and some CiviCRM.
People who want a better world need to find and work with each other for us to move toward one. We have to connect and build the things and relationships that all people need. Together, we can. For part of my part, I'm helping to create an open, transparent, not-for-profit network called, and for, People Who Give a Damn.
Benjamin's About (condensed version)
At Agaric Design Collective I help make web sites for people who do things. We use open source free software to give groups, businesses, and individuals control over their online presence and communication. To give people power over their own lives in all respects – to further the causes of justice and liberty – I'm helping form a nonprofit organization of, by, and for People Who Give a Damn.
I make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
People Who Give a Damn
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Favorite Quotations
We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.