Lessons for Collective Action from Bees, Spiders, and Termites

The Paradox of Coordination: How do whole collectives cohere around common purpose without centralized control?

Framed in the 1950s by entomologists, this seems to be the question of our moment, if not this century: How do we stitch and pollinate connections, ideas, and coordination across our differences?

The answers point toward addressing our broken social and political circulatory system. We have lessons to learn from the genius of the natural world and the innate ability to gather, connect, and stitch resources that nurture both local innovation and wider collective action.

Thanks to Waging Nonviolence for publishing a new piece that weaves learning from the natural world with insights from accompanying local communities facing and transforming violence while building dignity and justice.

Read this new addition to the archives: «Why movements need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders.»