Why join a Logos Circle?

The Challenge

The systems we inherited are failing. People often feel unheard, unseen, and unprotected. Governments can appear distant or corrupt, inequality is rising, and freedoms are quietly eroded. Trust in institutions is collapsing worldwide, and civic life is fragmenting. It is easy to feel powerless.

A Space to Act

Many people are looking for ways to respond, a chance to contribute to meaningful solutions, belong to a community, and demonstrate that change is possible. Logos Circles exist to meet this need.

Circles are more than meetups. They are spaces where strangers become neighbours, cynicism gives way to solidarity, and people come together to tackle real, local problems. They begin with those who know their city best, focusing on winnable issues that demonstrate how local action can create meaningful change.

Addressing Multiple Crises

By acting locally, Circles respond to several overlapping crises:

• Institutional collapse and trust crisis: Where governments fail to listen, Circles provide space to organise, solve real problems, and reclaim agency.

• Authoritarianism and networked suppression: Where free association is restricted, Circles rely on Logos’ privacy-first tools—Nomos, Codex, and Waku—to coordinate safely.

• The meaning crisis and collapse of community: Where people feel disconnected, Circles rebuild social bonds, shared purpose, and civic engagement.

Benefits of Civic Organising

Civic organising through Circles delivers tangible benefits:

• Develops practical leadership skills that extend beyond the Circle.

• Creates visible improvements in local communities.

• Strengthens trust, collaboration, and solidarity among neighbours.

Building a Parallel Movement

Beyond immediate impact, Circles serve as living experiments in self-governance. Organised from the ground up, they act as a peaceful demonstration of how communities can build functional alternatives without confrontation.

As Circles grow and connect, they form the foundation of a parallel institutional layer of a decentralised cyberstate, resilient, global, and grounded in shared values, built and maintained by Circle volunteers.

History shows us that such parallel organising is not only possible, but transformative. In Czechoslovakia, dissidents under communist rule developed what Václav Benda called the “parallel polis”, independent cultural, social, and political spaces beyond the reach of the regime. Movements like Charta 77 provided networks of accountability, education, and solidarity that helped sustain resistance and eventually laid the groundwork for peaceful regime change.

Just as Benda and his peers built alternative institutions in the analogue world — efforts that helped lay the foundation for a resistance movement which ultimately contributed to the collapse of communist rule — Circles today, alongside technologists, cypherpunks, and civic organisers, are exploring new forms of governance enabled by digital technology. They are small steps toward a larger vision: communities that govern themselves, protect freedoms, and create the social infrastructure needed to thrive outside failing systems.

To date, Circles have achieved tangible results on the ground: they supported a community-run school for underprivileged children in Zanzibar, raising funds to equip their computer room with ten Raspberry Pis; secured opportunities for underground and marginalised artists in Lisbon to showcase their work; and begun developing a privacy-first ZK Nextdoor app in Los Angeles to overcome barriers to neighbourhood engagement.