Light Posting from 18th November to 8th December
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from 18th November to 8th December. Regular posting will resume on 9th December.
A Revolution of the Heart
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
We need to move from civil disobedience to political disobedience. We need to move from captured corporate representative democracy (democracy in name only) to the real and deep democracy of deliberative peoples and citizens assemblies.
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace it?
How can we safely collapse systems of domination, and so, flourish?
By Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
The climate chaos that we are witnessing makes it inescapably clear that dominating others harms oneself, and that this system of domination will inevitably end—whether through ecological disasters or our collective action.
If Citizens Assemblies are the way forward, why is XR no longer endorsing the Scottish Governments Climate Citizens Assembly?
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
If the Government cannot create a genuine Assembly process, do we need to find the resources for civil society to do so? Should this involve inviting the Government to become one stakeholder in a process that is designed to challenge us all to make a path ahead that can be an example for other countries to follow?
Politics, Trauma and Empathy: Breakthrough to a politics of the heart?
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Medium
We can choose to believe the future is inescapably set in stone, and thereby make it so; or we can dare to create an opening for a different future, and so give us all a chance.
Presenting Cap and Share to a Citizens’ Assembly in the Scottish Parliament
By Justin Kenrick, Feasta
The big change since the days of Richard Douthwaite and the 2012 publication of Sharing for Survival is that we now have zero faith in an international order being able to bring this about. Hence my presentation was focused on the need for Scotland to enact Cap and Share and show the way, rather than wait for a global agreement.
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Peterborough – Justin Kenrick
By Rob Hopkins, Justin Kenrick, Transition Network
Our chapter explores the Transition Movement of grassroots responses to climate change, peak oil and economic contraction, and seeks to place it in the broader context of commons-based responses to climate capitalism.
EU Referendum: 2 Transitioners debate ‘In’ or ‘Out’
By Justin Kenrick, Alexis Rowell, Transition Culture
There is just over a week to go until the UK votes on whether it wants to stay in the European Union, or to leave.