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💡 Definitions

Definition of Us:

Definition of Citizen:

1a: a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it

1b: a member of a state

2: an inhabitant of a city or town. Especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman

3: a civilian as distinguished from a specialized servant of the state

<aside> 💡 To be a Citizen is to cultivate meaningful connection to a web of relationships and institutions. Citizenship benefits from a free and expansive imagination, the ability to see how things could be, not just how they currently are. To be a Citizen implies engagement, contribution, and action rather than a passive state of being or receiving. This is the most accurate sense of the word etymologically: Citizens are literally ‘together people,’ from the Latin, humans defined by the very fact of their togetherness. We tend to think it is the other way around, but ‘city’ in fact derives from the Latin civitas, which literally translates as the citizenry. As such, a city is literally a place where people are together. Likewise, ‘civil,’ ‘civilised,’ and ‘civility’ are all words for the art of relating and working and ultimately doing life together. – page 95, Citizens

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📚 Books

The Climate Action Handbook – A visual guide to 100 climate solutions for everyone by Heidi Roop

Citizens: why the key to fixing everything is all of us, by Jon Alexander

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster – Rebecca Solnit

Humankind – Rutger Bregman

The Social Instinct – Nichola Raihani

Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown

Braving the wilderness – The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown