Block, Bridge, Build - A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Future

Summary

Julia Roig of the Horizons Project adds bridging to Convergence Magazine’s ‘Block and Build’, since broad-front organising needs “the skills and relational infrastructure to work together across many lines of difference”. Blocking harm, bridging divides and building alternatives each have strengths and failure modes, and “not everyone has to do everything”. It asks for “suspending the impulse toward quick fixes”.

Rationale

Julia’s framework, now in our glossary, swaps the search for a silver bullet for an ecosystem, where slow cultural work stands beside the urgent work of stopping harm.