Decriminalize Nature Oakland, which has become the 501c4 national organization “Decriminalize Nature” with an independent board, with the intention to acquire power and give it to independent local groups that all coordinate and support each other via a mycelial network. The role of the national group is to enable and facilitate communication between groups, protect the values and principles of the movement, and channel power to local leaders and groups.
Decriminalize Nature Montana meets virtually every Tuesday from 10-11am MST
Want to join? Find us at this link: http://bit.ly/decrimMT
With your help we can make this happen, but we need everybody’s support. Join the movement to restore our relationship to nature and advocate for our inalienable right to cognitive liberty and the freedom to explore our own consciousness.
Autonomy with Mutual-Support -- Basis of the Mycelial Network.
While local groups are autonomous, the national board’s role is to share national dynamics, struggles, strategies, and opportunities with local groups, and also to learn from local groups and share findings with the rest of the movement. In this way, our intention as a national board is to facilitate the growth of this mycelial network to enable groups to support each other both directly and indirectly.
Emerging Leadership: A movement survives and thrives by encouraging and enabling leadership to emerge in all geographic areas. A key strategy of DN is to support local leaders to become regional leaders and national leaders. This is already happening around the US.
Protecting the Values and Principles.
DN was founded with the basic goal of advancing the values of love and compassion as revealed and demonstrated by our plant and fungi allies. We advocate for equitable access, non-commodification of the entheogenic plants and fungi, ceremony-based community containers, abundance and cooperation, decentralization, transparency, and open-source information.
One of the national board’s most important roles has been to monitor the emergence of money and corporate power into the plant medicine conversation and to do all we can to mitigate the negative impacts of profiteering and commodification of our entheogenic allies.
Grow it: The Power is in the Name.
“Decriminalize Nature” is becoming synonymous with an decentralized, action-oriented peoples’ movement that advocates for equitable access to entheogenic plants and fungi for all people. Branding and agreement about a core set of principles are important to show unity and advance the cause. As local groups adopt the DN name, the DN movement becomes more resilient and powerful.
As local movements absorb and utilize this power, everyone gains strength. Each local group exists in symbiotic relationships with the national board and other local groups.