One person acts out of conscience and passion, then another. They form an organization to accomplish their mission of making a better world. Their organization links up with other similar organizations. Then many such organizations come together to form a movement. Finally, several movements join forces to form a movement of movements (MoMs), a network of networks. This is the way it works by the laws of attraction and cooperation, a ground swell of good intentions and compassionate actions.

Take the natural environment. There are many powerful organizations at work with different founders and approaches. Green Peace, 350.org and Transition Towns are three of them. How do these three along with hundreds of other similar organizations share knowledge and strategies, join forces and engage in cooperative activism to form a movement for sustainable environment and climate chaos mitigation and adaptation?

How then does this movement link up with movements committed to other societal goals including gender equality, participatory governance, campaign finance reform, human rights, fiscal reform, universal health, stopping the sex trade, education for all, job creation, cultural and religious tolerance, disarmament and peace, and so on to manifest in a movement of movements (MoMs)?

MoMs should be light and networked. No need for more legal entities, buildings, meetings, committees and CEOs. MoMs need websites, apps, chat rooms, list serves, FB pages, Twitter feeds, LinkedIn pages, Trusted Sharing conversations, shared blog posts, joint training events and rallies, cooperative projects, common lobbyists, orchestrated mass media releases, synergistic talking heads, get-out-the-vote campaigns, mass boycotts, strategic fund raising, e-newsletters, e-journals, and more.

Let’s hear it for the MoMs! May a compassionate civilization rise up in our midst moment by moment.