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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: mexican-tequio
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title: Tequio Communal Labour
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description: >-
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A Zapotec and broader Mexican practice of mandatory communal labour for
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public works, in which each community member contributes days of work
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rather than money. Originating in Oaxacan Indigenous communities (where
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it is also called colecta), tequio is recognised in Oaxaca state law.
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source: Zapotec and Oaxacan tradition / Servicios para una Educación Alternativa (EDUCA)
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source_url: https://www.educaoaxaca.org/
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tags: [mexican, zapotec, tequio, communal-labour, indigenous]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Identify the public work
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description: >-
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The comunidad (community assembly) identifies a work needed — a road,
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a school, a water system, a church repair — that exceeds private
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capacity.
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- headline: Assign tequio days
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description: >-
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The assembly assigns each adult member a number of tequio days.
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Contributions are in labour, calibrated to the work needed, not in
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money.
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- headline: Work together on set days
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description: >-
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On the set days, the community works together, with food provided
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communally. The work is public, visible, and shared.
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- headline: Account and complete
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description: >-
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The assembly accounts for who served and who did not. Unfulfilled
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tequio is a serious matter, addressed by the assembly.
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- headline: Inaugurate together
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description: >-
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The completed work is inaugurated with the whole community, marking
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it as the product of shared labour, not of contract or charity.
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outcome: >-
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Public works are built through shared labour, binding the community to
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its infrastructure and to each other.
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practice: >-
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Tequio is not volunteer — it is obligation. But it is also not coerced
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by an outside authority; it is the community obliging itself. If some
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escape it, the form rots. |