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Moora Moora is an ecology-geared intentional
community near Healesville, not far from Melbourne. Our life shall be a celebration !!!
From Backchat, Moora Moora Community, Australia The Basisgemeinde (base community) is a
Want to be on a Committee? Christian community of about 60 people – adults
Oh give me your pity I’m on a committee
Which means that from morning to night and children, married as well as single people –
We attend, and amend, and contend and defend situated in a little village in northern Germany.
Without a conclusion in sight.
We confer and concur, we defer and demur
And reiterate all of our thoughts. The community started 25 years ago in southern
We revise the agenda with frequent addenda Germany and moved to the buildings of a former
And consider a load of reports.
We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose children’s home in 1983 in order to establish a common
And the points of procedure are fun. work. Since then members and guests of the community
But though various notions are brought up as motions,
There is terribly little gets done. live and work within the community. Working together in
We resolve and absolve, but we never dissolve, a loving, brotherly way is an important part of the
Since it is out of question for us. community’s lifewitness. We consider all the different
What a shattering pity to end our committee
Where else could we make such a fuss? kinds of work as equal in value and importance as they
are all service and contribution to a common whole: The
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production of wooden toys and locomotion auxiliaries for
kindergarten in our recently amplified factory, the
distribution of our products and those of the Bruderhof
communities in whole Germany, the biological farming
cooperating with a neighbour farmer, maintenance,
administration, kitchen and our own kindergarten.
Especially in a time of increasing unemployment,
neoliberal orientation and social disintegration there is a
need for alternatives. We believe that everybody has gifts
and abilities to share, and that taking part in daily work as
an essential part of human life should be possible for all
men.
Therefore we welcome everybody willing to share with us
according to her/his abilities and needs.
Following the example of the early Christians all members
of the community share everything – money and
possessions, time, responsibility for children and parents,
political engagement…
Basisgemeinde Wulfshagenerhutten
24214 Wulfshagenerhutten
GERMANY
Tel. 04346 368000
Fax. 04346 3680-01
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