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Parallel polis is the idea that people living under an oppressive regime can build their own institutions alongside the official ones. The Czech dissident Václav Benda set it out in 1978 in an essay for the signatories of Charter 77. He proposed parallel structures in culture, education, information, the economy and politics, to supply what the official order failed to provide. The essay first circulated as samizdat. The Circles handbook traces its idea of a parallel society to the parallel polis, and the Logos website calls Logos "the private-by-default technology stack for parallel societies". (Full page…)

Did you know...

... that Charter 77 grew out of the 1976 trial of the rock band The Plastic People of the Universe?
... that after a town hall run by Logos Circle / Aba, a landlord refunded two months' rent to each of two student tenants?
... that Logos Circle / Benin City raised over ₦750,000 on FundBrave for a member's parent's surgery?
... that Logos Circle / Gombe collected 49 specimens for free genotype testing at ECWA Urshalima Bagadaza in September 2026?
... that samizdat texts were copied by hand or on typewriters and passed from reader to reader?

Circle news

2 Oct: Wukari ran a school outreach at Mar-Mara Government Girls Secondary School.
30 Sep: at Aba's town hall, two student tenants won two months' rent back.
28 Sep: Maraba completed its first winnable issue, Her Flow, Her Dignity.
28 Sep: Katsina finished its Back-to-School Project.
27 Sep: Mumbai cleaned the Kharghar Hills trail.
26 Sep: Kaduna and Keffi both delivered outreaches.

All Circles…

This month

30 Sep: Testnet v0.3 announced.
6 Oct: Basecamp 0.3.2 released.
9 Oct: call for bootstrap nodes for the 0.3.0 genesis. See Run a node.
16 Oct: RFP-005, Multisig and Coordination closes.

Other areas of the Parallel Wiki

Logos: what Logos is and how to take part. Getting started · Run a node · λPrize · RFPs · Still to build · FAQ
Circles: local groups and the winnable issues they complete, by country.
Tools: software you install and run. Projects: open initiatives you can join or copy.
Ideas: the concepts behind a parallel society, and the Glossary.
Takes: positions, argued and signed. Essays · Myths
Library: LAN, the movement's zine, and source texts such as The Parallel Polis.
People and orgs: public figures, organisations and allies.

Sister sites

LAN: the Logos movement's zine, every issue
Circles GitBook: the official handbook for Circles and Stewards
Logos Forum: Circle reports, releases and RFPs
logos.co and the Logos Blog

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-'''[[Circles/Katsina|Logos Circle / Katsina]]''' first met on 27 June 2026 in Katsina State, Nigeria. In its first three months it completed four winnable issues: free online medical consultations with [[WellCare Telemedics]], a three-week summer learning programme in maths and English, a diphtheria awareness campaign with vaccination support through Primary Health Care services, and a back-to-school project that paid school fees and uniforms for three pupils and supplied four primary schools in Daura. At its first meeting the Circle ranked water scarcity in Daura as the most pressing problem, and kept it as a long-term goal while it took on issues it could finish. ('''[[Circles/Katsina|Full page…]]''')
+'''[[Parallel polis]]''' is the idea that people living under an oppressive regime can build their own institutions alongside the official ones. The Czech dissident [[Václav Benda]] set it out in 1978 in an essay for the signatories of [[Charter 77]]. He proposed parallel structures in culture, education, information, the economy and politics, to supply what the official order failed to provide. The essay first circulated as [[samizdat]]. The Circles handbook traces its idea of a parallel society to the parallel polis, and the Logos website calls Logos "the private-by-default technology stack for parallel societies". ('''[[Parallel polis|Full page…]]''')
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