About Spiral/de

Spiral hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein einheitliches ethisches Werk zu formulieren, eine zeitgemäße Ideologie, die von denen, die nach Freiheit streben, in ihrem Leben und ihren Projekten angewendet werden kann. Wir sammeln und vernetzen gemeinsam Fallbeispiele und Aktivitäten. Jeder kann beitragen und jeder kann daraus Nutzen ziehen.

The answer to What is to be done? keeps being hard to formulate and apply. However, plenty of good ideas have been formulated in the past years and centuries. Many people is putting them in practice today. Many more would join them if they would only know who and why. The starting point and common denominator to everything we do is the Spiral principle.

Spiral hat zwar im Sommer 2013 neu und mehrsprachig gestartet, aber wir haben natürlich auch eine Historie ...



"Espiral"wurde 2001 als politische Partei in der Hitze der Anti-Globalisierungs-Proteste geboren, angefeuert durch den 11. September, die Venezuela-Krise und den weltweiten Verfall der Demokratie. Die grundlegende Idee war es, die politische, mediale und Unternehmens-Sphäre quasi als Trojanisches Pferd zu infiltrieren, indem die Instrumente der jeweiligen Sphäre genutzt werden sollten.



This is how we run in several Spanish elections, together with the Motivados party. The aim was to get millions of ballots printed and distributed for free in hundreds of election booklets, showing to voters the message "Another Democracy is Possible", with the image of a hand placing a ballot in the toilet. We organized a mass email directed to the Spanish congressional deputies, asking their personal opinion on the bombing of Iraq. We designed a First Aid Guide against Lack of Time, that modern epidemic. We began a Dennouncements Workshop (counter-advertising ads). And other projects.

In our experience, the main problem we encountered was the dissemination of projects. Only "Another Democracy is Possible" was able to mobilize a thousand people in different cities, and in the end, we ran up against organizational fatigue. Around 2005 the first phase was gone and we closed the (political) party.

More than a decade later, the world is the same, or worse. Although almost a generation of activism has passed, and though the mobilizations and themes of today have different styles and tactics, under the surface the root causes of problems continue almost unaltered. In the same way, these are almost the same root causes targeted by civil protests throughout the 20th century, and earlier.



For this reason, we have decided to reactivate and update one of the actions begun by spiral: the spiral of values. The idea was that, to react and protest is not good enough, if you don't have your own agenda. To follow political, media, and corporate agendas in several parts of the planet is an exhausting effort. What matters is to have your own agenda, based on solid values, and to ally oneself with those who share this agenda and these values, to accomplish your goals.

Therefore, today the Spiral project is focused on finding and connecting causes, actions, and interesting projects.