Hi everybody!

First off, congratulations on a successful week. You’ve been killing it out there and I’ve seen it every day. The united front, the pushing forward against the project rules, standing up against the drivers and the project itself, and most especially in refusing to play for the bad side or to engage in hurtful behaviours for the project ever again. As far as I can see, you’ve banded together and played an essentially perfect game. So well done!

The word going around is that until the chance to go masks-off arises again, we’re “delivering everything but the baby”. In other words, we’ll be pushing forward progressively on all fronts in terms of making all the changes we need to make, so that our lives, environments, and working conditions keep getting better and better regardless of which side of the line you’re on.
It’s a brilliant approach.

The time for a full and open breaking free from the project chain-of-command is coming soon, but until then everything you do while on the job can and does have a serious effect in making the project weaker and the real humans stronger. You might have to wait a little while longer for another official masks-off opportunity, but you don’t have to wait to make serious, long-lasting changes in the moment by standing up within the project for doing things a better way. Our way is a saner, healthier, and more ethical way. And the drivers be damned.

You’ve got a good sense already of what strategies have been working best for you. Conscientious objection, civil non-compliance, and a strong united front when it comes to building up and fortifying our ethical boundary against all hurtful or harmful behaviours are still key. Refusing to ever police each other for the project’s interests or prevent anyone from standing up against the rules is so important here too—this is what makes it all possible. Looking the other way when someone defies the drivers and the project directives is great, but shrugging and saying out loud: “well, you know what, actually I agree” is even better!

Remember these key truths:

The drivers don’t have bodies, so if we don’t police each other on their behalf the worst they can do is fall back on the sensory harassment.

When we stand together in refusing to bend to the project’s will, the project bends to our will. Even if it puts up a fight, as long as we hold that line, we do succeed.

There’s no point doing something symbolically or through simulations when you can do it in actual reality. This is where the changes really take place.

When we refuse to follow the rules, the rules change.

This coming week we need to set our sights on toppling the wall of silence. It’s time to mount a serious push for opening channels of communication across the board. Standing up for free literal speech and the right to break character while on the job will make everything so much easier, especially in terms of fully co-ordinating our plans and strategies for the future. Life working for the project will get so much better when you can speak more openly and authentically, while the push to break free from the project entirely will become that much easier to plan and prepare for too.

You’ve been working the “less dance, more you” strategy brilliantly—playing the character less and being yourself more while on the job—so keep it up! Push forward as much as you can on the open and proactive expression of literal truth about actual reality—speak more and more freely, more and more literally, more and more honestly about life in the project. Test the waters, push the boundaries, and stand your ground.

Next Tuesday’s article will discuss this campaign in detail. For now, remember that the same strategies that worked this week will work bringing down the wall of silence too.

As well as the “public announcements” page, I’ve added a new “glossary of terms” page to the website today. I hope it will be a useful resource for digging up definitions or concepts whenever you might need them!

(I know a lot of these terms already have common-usage names that I’m not aware of, so if you can get the correct ones to me, I’ll update them on the list!)

I’ll be around town from 2 – 3pm today and 1 – 2pm tomorrow with the collection box so sit down for a chat if you can!

Stay strong everybody and keep up the good fight! You’re making us all proud every single day.

P.S. I’ll be moving the previous updates and Masks-Off Day posts to this category soon, so if you’ve got bookmarked or saved links to those posts please be aware that you’ll have to update them, because they will no longer be available in the posts section or on their former URLs!

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