A page of candid answers about the Same Page Manifesto and Team Humanity from Same Page creator, Simon Hertnon.
Page last updated: 24 October 2025
Questions (in approximate order of timeliness):
- Is the Same Page Plan fixed?
- Can I become involved?
- Can I work for the Same Page Foundation?
- Will the Same Page Foundation be in competition with any other organisations?
- Will Team Humanity become a political organisation?
Is the Same Page Plan fixed?
No.
This is a manifesto — an introductory proposal, rallying call, and invitation for dialogue — not a finalised masterplan.
Once feedback rolls in and others become involved, who knows what might evolve.
Can I become involved?
Yes!
See the Play your part page.
Can I work for the Same Page Foundation?
Not now.
But, yes, once the organisation is legally established and gains sufficient funding.
And while we will be asking pretty much everyone in the world to volunteer their participation in the five mass actions, the intention is for every Same Page role to be paid (unless the worker chooses not to be paid).
Will the Same Page Foundation be in competition with any other organisations?
No.
The proposed organisation aims to efficiently fill a blank space.
Same Page will be the first organisation specifically designed to coordinate and empower helpfully diverse (but unhelpfully disjointed) legions of social change agents and organisations as collaborative members of a single, popular, universally-visible (think Manchester United supporters) societal change movement.
Same Page won’t measure climate change or design adaptations. It won’t write policies and lobby governments. It won’t design a new economic system. But it will facilitate all these things, along with all other essential social change activities, by attracting mass support, providing essential information, and coordinating essential collaborations.
Will Team Humanity become a political organisation?
In the short term: no.
Here’s why.
- To attract a critical mass of members and speedily achieve the first four Actions, Team Humanity must be apolitical.
- The movement must enable any politician — whatever their political affiliation — to participate.
- In particular, A4 Prohibit harmful business is dependent on cross-party support.
In the longer term: only if needed for system transformation (A5 Accomplish systems redesign).
The characteristics of the movement are exactly what societies should want from public and private leaders: clarity, brevity, transparency, engagement, collaboration, systems thinking, and so on.
If existing political parties evolve to attain these characteristics as a result of mass public expectation, then a Team Humanity (or Same Page) party won’t be needed.
That’s Plan A.