Public Sphere Project

Liberating Voices

Project Goals:

Work with groups electronically or in-person with pattern language workshops

Expand the pattern language — see what's missing and add your ideas

Translate patterns into other languages

Study the effect of pattern cards in workshop settings

A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution

The Liberating Voices pattern language is intended to help us develop the social imagination we need to better face the future as engaged and empowered citizens. Browse the patterns in the book or see all of the patterns in the pool environment.

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Labor Visions Recent surveys show that U.S. workers want to join unions. But employers often prevent this from happening by illegally threatening or firing union activists. More than 23,000 U.S. workers are dismissed or punished each year for exercising their legal rights to form or join a union. Trade agreements like NAFTA and GATT further weaken worker power. While they strongly protect corporate...

Labor Visions

Recent surveys show that U.S. workers want to join unions. But employers often prevent this from happening by illegally threatening or firing union activists. More than 23,000 U.S. workers are dismissed or punished each year for exercising their legal rights to form or join a union.

Trade agreements like NAFTA and GATT further weaken worker power. While they strongly protect corporate...