OBMA: Our Constitution for a Living Commons Posted on 25th September, 2026 (GMT 09:02 hrs) OVERVIEW Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)’s Constitution does not found a state, church, company, political party, NGO or university; it binds a self-regulating commons of inquiry and action to the Earthian Charter and turns that Charter into praxis. It names OBMA as Earthlings among other-than-human life, seated in Baranagar on the Ganga but organised by watershed rather than nation, and it sets two inseparable goals: to expose the failing world economy and to act from the fact of ecological collapse. Fifteen Charter commitments become binding duties—Earth first; food, cloth and shelter instead of “growth”; decentralised power; refusal of extractive wealth; a moneyless commons; occupation of speculative finance; partyless communes; irreligious public form; deschooling beyond academiocracy; community health and justice; law that vanishes toward self-rule; no veto; no chase for office; to...