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Ātmadīpa: The Non-Schooling Praxeogogy

Ātmadīpa is a non-school and a praxeo-gogy: not a greener exam-machine but a commons in which a people learns to inhabit a watershed in the polycrisis — lamp and island unto itself, and in the same motion a support to others. Head, hand and heart are taught as one and never ranked; the institution is deschooled. It resists the sale of learning, the capture of the curriculum, and the credential that pretends to be knowing. Its fields are the crafts of home-as-habitat — food, water, shelter, care, dissent, grief — held free at the point of use, federated without a headquarters, open-licensed, unfinished on purpose. Kindle your own lamp. Its only use is to light the road everyone walks.

OBMA: Our Constitution for a Living Commons

Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)’s Constitution does not found a state, church, company, political party, NGO or university; it binds a self-regulating commons of inquiry and action to the Earthian Charter and turns that Charter into praxis. It names OBMA as Earthlings among other-than-human life, seated in Baranagar on the Ganga but organised by watershed rather than nation, and it sets two inseparable goals: to expose the failing world economy and to act from the fact of ecological collapse. Fifteen Charter commitments become binding duties—Earth first; food, cloth and shelter instead of “growth”; decentralised power; refusal of extractive wealth; a moneyless commons; occupation of speculative finance; partyless communes; irreligious public form; deschooling beyond academiocracy; community health and justice; law that vanishes toward self-rule; no veto; no chase for office; total disarmament—while care, emancipatory praxis, equity and mutual aid are guaranteed to all who take part. Power stays small, open and reversible: an Assembly and circles, recallable stewards, no founder’s chair, an open ledger and a funding screen that rejects coal, arms, big finance and branded philanthropy. Knowledge is copyleft and fee-less; learning returns to place as a non-school; harm is recorded and defended, including the memory of financial fraud; capture is treated as the main danger, and the commons may dissolve rather than become a brand.

Your 1 Rupee = Our 1 Step Forward: A Humble Plea from OBMA

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Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA): Our Branches

Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), a self-funded non-profit platform since 2021, enacts academic activism across financial collapse (DHFL and crony-capitalist markets), ecological catastrophe, neoliberal political economy, far-right authoritarianism, institutionalized education, proprietary knowledge, and epistemic monism, expanding into an interconnected praxis of Ecotopians of Alternity against climate denial and green-capitalist delay; Seize Dalal Street and Moneyless Commons against stock-market mystification and the sorcery of money; Partyless Communes, Democratic (Un)Freedom, and Bhagat Singh’s Socialist India against electoral autocracy and domesticated radicalism; না-ইস্কুল / Nice School, Counter-Academiocracy, and Copyleft Writers’ Forum against banking-model schooling, metricized universities, and enclosed authorship; and Anekānta and Derozio and Young Bengal for many-sided knowing and sceptical, anti-foundational pedagogy—together prefiguring commons, decentralization, and bahujana sukhaya, bahujanahitaya ca rather than mere reform.

BYE-LAWS/ CONSTITUTION/ RULES AND REGULATIONS OF ONCE IN A BLUE MOON ACADEMIA (OBMA)

1. Name: The name of the association shall be “Once in a Blue Moon Academia” here in after referred to as the “COMMUNITY”. 2. Headquarters: To Be Updated 3. Area of operation: The area of operation shall be the Republic Of India 4. Objectives of the society: The objects of the Society shall be: Continue reading “BYE-LAWS/ CONSTITUTION/ RULES AND REGULATIONS OF ONCE IN A BLUE MOON ACADEMIA (OBMA)”

Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA): MOA

1. Name of the CommunityThe name of the Society shall be “Once In A Blue Moon Academia”, hereinafter referred to as “OBMA.” 2. Objects of the Society 2.1.To promote and protect human and animal rights in all parts of the world; to study and disseminate knowledge on international human rights issues and the convergences ofContinue reading “Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA): MOA”

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