The 'Yellow Jackets' weren't the first leaderless movement, and they won't be the last
Fred Turner: "A democracy must do more than allow its citizens to speak. It must help them live."
Ali Tamlit wrote here on the power of SF to inspire politics. But he was also one of the Stansted 15 - now found guilty
From shared harvests to energy co-operatives, citizen collectives are no longer waiting for govts to solve their problems
Alternative Editorial: Brexit As Gateway Politics
Yuval Noah Harari unearths the stories we live by - but doesn't recognise his own dangerous myths, says Jeremy Lent
2 transforming podcasts: Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion, & eco-rights laywer Polly Higgins
Free beer (and ice cream) for cycling in Bologna, local retail services for volunteering in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Communities can incentivise themselves
Do you know your "commons-based peer production" from your "cosmo-localism"? A jargon test on our discourse here
If you want to best oppose Donald Trump, don't cloud your judgement by hating him
Civic Meme Miscellany: Grieving dads play footy, recycling or re-using?, & not your average train ride
Tempo, Horizons, Patterns: Eric Liu on three ways we can shape time to serve our citizenship
Alternative Editorial: Can We Change Channel Please?
The Local Trust supports bottom-up civil society... starting from a glass-strewn waste-ground
A journey around the Earth, in real time, over 90 mins. Feel like a global citizen, for once
"A culture of contented sufficiency". Is that how humans have to live to save the planet?
To get behind a news story, add to it, dance to it, put it in history or out of context. This is Newspaper Theatre
How "political" can contemporary political art be? Is it best just disrupting the everyday?
The UK's new "5 giants" to tackle are: Inequality, Disempowerment, Isolation, Intolerance, Climate change
3D manufacturing could replace our mountains of wasteful commodities. A musician's take on the "end of stuff"