A possible pathway to Interdependence
By Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Bella Caledonia
We need to dive deeper, heal the hurts of colonialism and remake ourselves and our world using healthy collective decision-making processes that bring out the best in us, rather than the worst.
Ingredients for a decolonial politics – cooking up a future to delight in
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy
As we work together to re-discover and build new empowering political systems of collective decision making, and life-giving economic systems that can meet our real needs, how do we ensure that they stay true to the intentions we’re setting out with? How do we surface, heal and create alternatives to our internalized and cultural habits of domination?
Business as Usual is a Failure for our Climate Emergency
By Kate Dyer, Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Scott Herrett, Mim Black, Bella Caledonia
Assemblies can be the way to break the business as usual logjam that is paralysing effective action. For that, they need to be given the time and range of expert input to be able to arrive at their own understanding of the level of the emergency, and the transformations needed to address it.
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.