Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divine Disobedience is divided into three long sections. The first, and sketchiest, is an account of the communal lifestyle of East Harlem's Emmaus House, a prototype for countless so-called "underground churches." When Francine began her project, Emmaus House was a hotbed of zealous ecumaniacs bent on building a new kind of parish with home rule and spontaneous liturgies. The community has become considerably more secular since then, and is evolving into a center for nonviolence...
...lofty rationale of protest. The Dirtiest Show in Town emits the mandatory blasts at the Viet Nam War, air pollution, urban blight and computerized conformity. So what else is new? Something of durable human concern and curiosity that cannot be graphically described: scenes of fornication, cunnilingus, fellatio, communal couplings and a candid display of homosexual and lesbian preferences...
...officials remember that civil order and corporate authority rarely are equivalent, they can disengage themselves from a particular piece of social oppression. Liberalism, once again, is seen as retreat or strategic withdrawal. But the protection of civil disobedience depends on the state's ability to respond to changing communal values. It depends on the state's responsibility to power being commensurate with the citizen's responsibility to dissent...
...three million people, packed four times as closely together as are New Yorkers, still seems a large village. In each quartier the people know one another and seem fairly close together. Most of the sections of Paris, in fact, are quite disinter from the rest of the city. Would communal living and working facilities for a hundred or a thousand people, inside the giant complexes give people the kind of community they need Or will we have to give up cooperation on a large seale altogether and move back to the farm, where we can get close to the land...
...work. An average and ample income for a typical movement person is only between $100 and $150 a month. Yet $100 can go a long way, given a whole infrastructure of radical institutions-funded largely by liberal contributions. There are co-ops providing cheap food in bulk for communal living, free clinics for quality medical aid for almost everything but major surgery, legal defense funds for free legal assistance and bail money in political cases. Radicals for the most part have no insurance and no credit payments. Furniture is inherited from friends, books borrowed from the library, transportation by bicycle...