Our community straddles worlds and is distinguished by a mindset more than a particular location. Goldman Mill is all about peace and making a better world. Millers are bright, creative, peaceful people of integrity and character. They are diverse yet similar in their love for peace and their thirst for justice for all. They believe in being part of the solution and are committed to citizen action for good. They prize the planet and all living creatures. Their progressiveness may manifest itself in many different ways, as Millers can be found in every part of the world, with every kind of face, in every love-and-peace-based creed, and among the players of several virtual-reality Web games:

YoVille Outpost - Endie Connell, administrator

MiniPlanet Outpost - Endie Connell, administrator

SmallWorlds Outpost - Windy Goldman, administrator

GaiaOnline Outpost - Fearless Peacesprite, administrator

Metaplace Outpost - Paxie Goldman, administrator

Millers travel worlds virtual and real, working hard to live our lives by the collective's ideals and principles as outlined in the Goldman Mill Peace Society Official Charter (will be published soon); helping create a better, cleaner, fairer, more peaceful and sustainable world; living, teaching, and learning the message of compassion, nonviolence, and justice; fighting bigotry; having fun; and building peaceful community.

Welcome to the hub site for GOLDMAN MILL Peace Collective, a project of Grateful Dread Media’s Armchair Activist Project.

What is this Goldman Mill? Well. for fun and edification, we have created a fantasy world, a virtual community focused on progressive-pacifist principles and values. It's a pastoral setting filled with greenery, ecologically-sound homes and buildings, a lake filled with sparkling cerulean water, its own solar/wind electric-generating station, a pacifist peace department, a rich cultural and educational tradition, a commitment to diversity and freedom, and lots of music, laughter, love, and peace. At its center is an old windmill that stands at the site of Goldman Mill, the township's first business.

"Associates" from Goldman Mill Peace Society outposts converge here at Goldman Mill's main site (our virtual town hall) to apply for full citizenship in our virtual community. Here, you'll find the main community discussion space, links to community-wide social and service events and projects, Goldman Mill media, shopping (proceeds benefit the GM Peace Project), and more. All events and efforts are presented/offered in the interest of fulfilling Grateful Dread Media's Goldman Mill education, service, and community peace project.

GOLDMAN MILL, the township of GDM's creation, was once housed on the MyMiniLife platform. Since MML was abandoned by its owners, we now are establishing GM outreach outposts on a number of social-network community/virtual-reality game sites, including YoVille, MiniPlanet, GaiaOnline, and SmallWorlds. Each outpost will offer GM-related activities and events for users on those platforms. (We are scouting for new locations as well, in our effort to spread the message of peace and community. The ultimate goal is to have our independent township represented as a whole within our own virtual world or, failing that, a subsection of a larger world that permits us autonomy.)

A little info on Goldman Mill: The idea behind this activity is to build a green-centered (virtual) community filled with lefty-prog people of peace who live and work together to create a fab progressive life for them (and anyone who wants to join the ride) and a better world overall. The town is imaginary and unrealistically utopian (from a progressive standpoint), but the community we build can be real.

[NOTE: Non-lefty-progs are certainly welcome, but there's a different sheriff in town here. Check it out and decide for yourself.]

In the conceit of this endeavor, it’s best to take it all at face value as you travel through the sites, meetings, conversations, roleplays, games, and all that make up the Goldman Mill world: The people and organizations exist, the work they do and the way in which they live their lives carries on from day-to-day, and we who watch (and build) the township get to indulge our creativity, make friends and interact if we choose, and put something beautiful, educational, and motivating into the world that promotes citizen action and the progressive ideals that guide us in our real lives.

Goldman Mill exists to help us envision (and, depending on how involved one wishes to become, experience) what the real world could be like if people banded together for good and lived their lives in this sort of setting. It also helps us educate the public on progressive thought and sustainable living, about social-justice heroes and history, and ways in which they can make a positive difference in the world..

People all over the planet are working toward a world like this and for the ability to live like this — free from institutionalized bigotry, well rid of control-freak laws that restrict individual freedoms for no real good, safe from threat of violence within our collective, committed to principles and community rather than selfishness and materialism, blessed with leaders who serve rather than govern and whose first motivation is compassion. Is this sort of life truly possible? Goldman Mill presents an opportunity to try it on for size and see -- and learn.

If you feel you belong, you’ll figure it out. And if you do discern that this should be “home” for you, please drop us a line via email or send us a comment and say hey now. The more, the merrier, as they say. And if you have questions, holler and an adminiistrator will come running.