Posts in DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION
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."
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
2 transforming podcasts: Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion, & eco-rights laywer Polly Higgins
Tempo, Horizons, Patterns: Eric Liu on three ways we can shape time to serve our citizenship
To get behind a news story, add to it, dance to it, put it in history or out of context. This is Newspaper Theatre
The UK's new "5 giants" to tackle are: Inequality, Disempowerment, Isolation, Intolerance, Climate change
Alternative Editorial: Where We Should Be Looking
A/UK EDITORIAL, BREXIT, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, PARTY POLITICSpat kanesystems, localism, connectivity, belonging, community
Alternative Editorial: the Feeling of Rising Up
Civil Society Futures' final report: people's desire for power and control must be answered
Come to Westminster, find your MP, & tell them to support proportional representation, on Dec 11th
Young people are about to utterly transform climate politics, in the UK and US
Alternative Editorial: The Blue Peter Approach to Systems
We mostly think citizens bring huge value to society. But only a tiny number of us think they will. Let's change that.
Sovereign: Democracy.Earth's attempt at a new tech platform for a new democracy (and maybe UBI too)
From Scotland, a proposal for a new level of self-defining community power: Development Councils
Collaboration, dialogue, horizontality: what links the "feminisation" & "municipalisation" of politics.
Change your lifestyle, sure - but maybe get arrested too. The urgencies of climate crisis compel new actions
Vermont's Front Porch Forum is brilliantly successful at putting the Net at the service of communities
