ABSTRACT
Equal social relations survive while surrounded by the inequalities of most other relations by transforming daily life. This chapter presents some of the ways in which the particular sites already discussed both grow out of and impact concrete practices of equality in everyday life. It presents some specific sites where participatory, direct democracy shapes life across multiple areas. This freedom and unpredictability are both the greatest strength of, and the greatest challenge to, equality in practice. The chapter shows how different communities and organizations have responded to this challenge. One site bringing together the World Social Forum (WSF) and the Global Justice Movements are the youth camps at the World Social Forum meetings, sometimes called the Intercontinental Youth Camp (IYC). In the WSF Youth Camps and in the Indigenous Guatemalan highlands, systems of egalitarian work distribution, rather than voting, are central to equality. As equality in practice spreads beyond political governance, it produces effects in many aspects of life.
