Designated areas where cooperative businesses receive tax incentives, regulatory support, and access to public investment.
Free public transit, healthcare, and internet in select municipalities to test commons-based provision.
Public financing mechanisms for employees to purchase their workplaces when owners retire or businesses face closure.
Local currencies that incentivize care work, environmental restoration, and community participation.
Randomly selected citizens study complex problems and make recommendations to governments.
Communities directly allocate portions of municipal budgets through democratic participation.
Voters rank policies rather than personalities; winners become implementers rather than decision-makers.
Alternative tracks within existing systems focused on healing harm rather than punishment.
Trained neighborhood mediators handle disputes before they reach formal legal systems.
Electronic monitoring, community service, and therapeutic communities as stepping stones toward abolition.
Remove land from speculation by placing it under community ownership.
Mandate that publicly-funded research and innovations become public commons.
Integrate speculative thinking and systems analysis into educational curricula.
Focus on municipalities and bioregions with existing political will, then connect successful experiments into mutual support networks.
Create parallel institutions (credit unions, food co-ops, community defense) that meet immediate needs while demonstrating alternatives.
Each reform should create constituencies that benefit from and will defend further changes - building momentum for transformation.
Prepare detailed transition plans for implementation during moments of systemic breakdown when rapid change becomes possible.
These mechanisms require careful adaptation to local contexts. Success depends on community engagement, adequate resources, and learning from both successes and failures. No single approach works everywhere - the key is creating spaces for experimentation and evolution.