Silent Stalwart
By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
Like the profuse blooms of the brown-eyed susan, a multitude of people must come forth to fully pursue, serve and save life.
Tag: participative democracy
Democracy Rising 23: Scaling Deliberation—the Maclean’s Magazine Experiment
By Tom Atlee, Resilience.org
Despite their differences, the intense time pressure, and being continuously filmed by a crew from Canadian TV (for an hour-long public affairs program) these ordinary citizens by the end of their third day had all signed a detailed, co-created, visionary agreement charting a course to greater mutual understanding by all Canadians.
Beyond Self-Help and Esotericism: Freedom as Political Action
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
All the modern short-cuts (such as self-help, esotericism etc.) are tools that can give us an illusion of being free in an unfree world. Actual freedom is nothing short of genuinely democratic action.
How change happens: Lessons from Australia’s bombshell election
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
After nine long years of an increasingly far-right, climate change denying Liberal National Party coalition (LNP) government, the citizens of Australia voted for change.
Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
At a time when rights hard-won in past struggles are being wrested away from us, we can draw strength from the knowledge that if people-power has prevailed in so many such struggles before, it can prevail again.
How citizens’ assemblies are revitalizing democracy
By Phila Back, Waging Nonviolence
By forming citizens’ assemblies people can proceed to develop a vision of how they want their world to be, at the center of which are people actively engaged as citizens.
Democracy Rising 9: Facilitating Democratic Conversations, Part 1
By Rosa Zubizarreta, Resilience.org
What forms of self-governance will enhance our efforts to create resilient local communities?
Not a Democracy
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
This is not a democracy. But it may be… soon… if we just acknowledge that it is not democracy. And start working toward making something that is.
The elites can’t stop climate change, but democratic cities can
By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org
It is time for the radical democratization of cities, in order for a meaningful and resourceful plan for action from the grassroots to be initiated. Anything less than this is simply a waste of time.
How Chileans went from jumping subway turnstiles to rewriting the Constitution
By Jordan Flaherty, Waging Nonviolence
Mass protests that began in 2019 in Chile — and have deep roots in the country’s militant history of resistance to neoliberalism — are about to bring about a new constitution.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 24 Thom Hartmann
By Vicki Robin, Thom Hartmann, Resilence.org
Thom Hartmann has been the nation's #1 progressive talk show host for over a decade. Recorded in the lead up to the US presidential election, Thom shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Citizen Empowerment Against Conspiracy Theories
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
In order for the wave of irrational and anti-scientific conspiracies to be tackled in any meaningful way, people en masse have to be empowered.