The Daisy Chain Club helps ordinary people uproot entrenched political abuse by collaboratively flexing neighborhood people-power. The Daisy Chain Club is for all good-hearted, disciplined, and defiantly joyful neighbors who are looking for a customizable gameplan to rug-pull political abusers, who hoard power through coercive[1] control.

How The Daisy Chain Club Works

The Daisy Chain Club blooms around The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Field Guide to Mass-Cooperation. This field guide to strategic nonviolent organizing offers ordinary people a way to collectively pool their time, attention, talents, and resources to accomplish three things:

  1. create networks of support where neighbors give back to neighbors[2] what has been stolen from us: our creative, material, social, safety, and stability needs
  2. develop and gamify plans to prevent political abusers from physically,psycholically, emotionally, economically, and institutionally harming our vulnerable neighbors[3], and
  3. host neighborhood conversations about the social, ecological, and political world that we DO want to live in--collaborating on a vision statement and coauthoring a flexible blueprint for engaging in a representative government that represents[4] ordinary people & the planet.

The Daisy Chain Club meets together, offline, in our neighborhoods--where we and our collective power live.

How to "Pay Your Dues"

Dues run on an integrity system. Daisy Chain Club members agree to spend 2-3 hours each week playing and experimenting, in humble[5] service to their neighbors, inspired by ideas in The Daisy Chain Field Guide.

How to Find a Daisy Chain Club

Daisy Chain Clubs are already blooming in your neighborhood: Go out there and join the helpers, the lovers, the dreamers, the menders, and the makers who are already active in your neighborhood.

There are people who see what you see, who understand exactly where we're at, and who want to meaningfully intervene to protect our children's future. If you're feeling doubtful about that, it's likely because you're not out there looking for the daisies. We are everywhere. Find us. Bring this field guide with you, because some of us might be working from the beta version of The Daisy Chain.

This field guide does not work if you do not play and experiment with it in your neighborhood-- together, off-screens[6], and off[^7] "istitutional-time."

There is no "online community" for this website because, our aim is to persuade you to replace social media engagement with hyper-local community engagement. Instead of finding faux belonging by ideological alignment online, cultivate actual belonging in your neighborhood, with the strenth, kindess, human creativity, and collective intelligence that would make 1980s PBS kids shows proud of us.

We've got you. And we've got us.

It's time grow a peaceful cultural evolution.

Ways to Interact with This Website

We encourage you to engage with this site the following ways:

  • Engage with the live-updated version of The Daisy Chain Field Guide, with hyperlinks, corrections, reader contributions, and educational footnotes.
  • Download a free[7] static version of The Daisy Chain Field Guide (for printing purposes) as either a PDF or EPUB.
  • Download a free[8] audiobook book reading of The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor's Field Guide to Mass-Cooperation.
  • Download a free[9] printable game board, petal game cards, and Daisy Chain cluster badges to use for both tabletop and live-action plays of the D.I.Y. Daisy Chain Game.
  • Print, photocopy, and freely[10] distribute as many copies of The Daisy Chain Field Guide and The D.I.Y. Daisy Chain Game, with the goal of spreading it offline like Dolly-Parton-blessed vaccine[11] against political abuse.
  • Engage with The Daisy Chain Club's blog, podcast, and art gallery to help fuel the punkrock PBS spirit you and your neighbors need to prevail.
  • Share this website directly[12] with your friends, neighbors, and fellow organizers people, via email & text message.
  • Contact The Daisy Chain Guide's Author and Artists for interviews, art commissons, gallery showings, and community speaking events.

Welcome Page Footnotes

[^7] Please do not try to convince yourself that, because you are a journalist, a teacher, a doctor, a pastor, a nurse, an artist, a speaker, a social worker, a content creator, or a director of a nonprofit that you are already "doing the work." Those who are more economically comfortable than wage-workers too often convince themselves that their job is their "advocacy" and that they do not need to get "involved" because that's "day job." The Daisy Chain Club is about engaging in humble service to your community 2-3 hours a week, in cooperation and collaboration with your neighbors. You're not in the club if you're not putting the time into your actyal neighborhood. Accountability is key, and unlike our adversaries, we actually DO run on integrity.

  1. That just ain't neighborly. ↩︎

  2. When we do this, political abusers can no longer make people desperate and trap them into begging for breadcrumbs. ↩︎

  3. When we lionize and shield our scapegoated neighbors, we prevent abusers from being able to terrorize a people to remain in control. ↩︎

  4. When we do that we escape being trapped at the mercy of self-dealing, corrupt political business franchises who prioritize the fiction of profit over the reality of people and the planet for too long. ↩︎

  5. Since this is a decentralized network of pro-democracy neighbors, we do not have (or want) the awesome power of tracking the time members invest in their communities. This club is about doing, not talking. We run on integrity and trust you to pay it forward in your neighborhood, while avoiding the urge to grandstand, backstab, or bicker. Show up and do the work. Donations help keep this website's lights on. This is not a political party or nonprofit-- it's just a single community college teacher and their friends keeping this site alive for the purposes of public edification & neighborly solidarity. ↩︎

  6. Put your phones down. Political abusers have built a digital surveillance state around us-- but their creeptastic nerd-shit does't work if we unplug and unsubscribe from our digital leashes. ↩︎

  7. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 applies. ↩︎

  8. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 applies. ↩︎

  9. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 applies. ↩︎

  10. Follow the Creative Commons guidelines: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Do not sell our work or pass off our work as your own. That's not neighborly, and we do have legal representation. Don't be a butt. ↩︎

  11. We're done with the closed mind virus. ↩︎

  12. Step away from social media algorithms, beloveds. The internet is a contested space, and it is best to move important information around and outside internet algorithms. The more anolog this spreads, the more powerful it will be. Read that last sentence again. Underline it. Star it. Mark it well. ↩︎