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Today is a good day. Many #civilresistance groups getting their campaigns started or ramping up around the world today - and they're no joke ;)
Check this out!! 10 countries listed below!
Is yours there?
Check this out!! 10 countries listed below!
Is yours there?
FRANCE
New "Last Renovation" group from France had their very first motorway blockade today... in a blizzard!!
They demand the Gov't do emergency insulation of all of France leaky homes.
Go and give love to @derniere_renov to welcome them to the scene!
New "Last Renovation" group from France had their very first motorway blockade today... in a blizzard!!
They demand the Gov't do emergency insulation of all of France leaky homes.
Go and give love to @derniere_renov to welcome them to the scene!
UK
New campaign @JustStop_Oil shut down 10 oil terminals today, with help from @XRebellionUK.
They demand the Gov't stop all new fossil fuel exploration & production projects.
They're going to cause proper chaos in the next couple of weeks. I'm so excited.
New campaign @JustStop_Oil shut down 10 oil terminals today, with help from @XRebellionUK.
They demand the Gov't stop all new fossil fuel exploration & production projects.
They're going to cause proper chaos in the next couple of weeks. I'm so excited.
1. We need expand the definition of Irishness - one million people living on this island were not born here but call it home, says @IRLPatricia in a discussion chaired in #Derry today by @SusanMcKay15 @IrelandsFuture
2. We need to have an approach to dialogue which allows every voice to be heard. But those who say it's divisive to have the #unity debate need to be gently but firmly reminded that closing down this debate is attempt silence legitimate political aspirations, says @IRLPatricia
@IRLPatricia 3. Many people are engaging in this constitutional conversation because they take the possibility of a "new Ireland" very seriously indeed - it has transformative potential says @cjhumanrights
Elon Musk here describing government through a neoreactionary lens just like his business partner Peter Theil
Its almost like he’s regurgitating the exact words of NRx blogger Curtis Yarvin
Stockpiling billions in wealth for yourself is not ‘allocating’,it’s the opposite,hoarding
Its almost like he’s regurgitating the exact words of NRx blogger Curtis Yarvin
Stockpiling billions in wealth for yourself is not ‘allocating’,it’s the opposite,hoarding
If you want to understand why the world and especially the UK is so crazy right now, understanding the NRx will help you make sense of it all. It will explain why Keir Starmer is an infiltrating Tory…
…it will also explain the Gov theft of Billions of our tax money and it will explain the distraction from that fact in the way the media is used by elite mafia Dom Cummings in order to control the narrative
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This weekend, 75 members of the public from across the UK gather online to begin examining the question ‘How should the UK’s democracy work?’
In this blogpost, project lead @alanjrenwick sets out what the Assembly will do, & why it deserves attention bit.ly/3tMPOhS
This weekend, 75 members of the public from across the UK gather online to begin examining the question ‘How should the UK’s democracy work?’
In this blogpost, project lead @alanjrenwick sets out what the Assembly will do, & why it deserves attention bit.ly/3tMPOhS
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Running for six weekends, the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK is part of the Constitution Unit’s wider research project, Democracy in the UK after Brexit, funded by @ESRC and delivered in partnership with public participation charity @involveUK
Running for six weekends, the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK is part of the Constitution Unit’s wider research project, Democracy in the UK after Brexit, funded by @ESRC and delivered in partnership with public participation charity @involveUK
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The Assembly will discuss:
How should democracy in the UK work?
What principles should underpin the system?
How should power be distributed between parliament, government, courts and the public?
What behaviours do people expect from politicians & fellow citizens?
The Assembly will discuss:
How should democracy in the UK work?
What principles should underpin the system?
How should power be distributed between parliament, government, courts and the public?
What behaviours do people expect from politicians & fellow citizens?
🧵 My @ScotNational column on the co-operation agreement & how to make its worthy aspirations meaningful. Both parties have signed up to “doing politics better” “constructively & respectfully” & with “transparency & candour” 1/12 thenational.scot/politics/19541…
If we are to have respectful politics & transparent processes, then these values must apply across the board. There can be no areas carved out where anything goes & people can be abused and traduced for seeking honest debate and scrutiny of policy. 2/12
So far, in relation to the most totemic and controversial legislation in their policy programme , the approach of the partners to the co-operation agreement hasn’t lived up to the values they have now so clearly set out in writing. 3/12
A short thread outlining my headline thoughts/experience on citizens' assemblies as a means for exploring the scope and scale of potential climate policies. #CitizensAssembly @ScotClimateCA @Profiainstewart @Daisynmurphy @keelingcurve @KA_Nicholas @lwhitmarsh @jillian_anable
1/With govts &many official institutions failing to implement policies to cut carbon in line with their fair contribution to the Paris 1.5-2°C commitments, citizens’ (climate) assemblies have a potentially key role in exploring what is necessary rather than politically expedient.
2/ Core to this is setting an open question & not one designed to constrain suggestions to fit with existing government policy. On this the Scottish assembly
@ScotClimateCA stands head & shoulders above the more Westminster-focussed & highly constrained UK assembly
@NetZeroUK
@ScotClimateCA stands head & shoulders above the more Westminster-focussed & highly constrained UK assembly
@NetZeroUK
Time we stopped being blinkered by privileged politicians or the current political system either - all political parties are untrustworthy, really poor value for money and mostly nothing but bloodsucking chancers and liars whom we don’t need to run any country #citizensassembly
Why can’t we do away with political parties altogether and vote in citizens assemblies that appoint experts in their respective fields on renewable short term contracts as their civil servants to advise and carry out their will.
That way we the people get to control and exercise real and full democracy, by the people, that is equally shared - positions on assemblies rotated by a system of random selection from electoral registers. Then there can be no whip or elites influencing its decisions!
The Green Alliance believes that the #ClimateAssemblyUK -- 100 people -- is a "public mandate".
The Green Alliance is an organisation which has been working in Parliament since the 1970s to produce a cross-party consensus on environment, AGAINST the public's interests.
The Green Alliance is an organisation which has been working in Parliament since the 1970s to produce a cross-party consensus on environment, AGAINST the public's interests.
I.e. by producing a cross-party consensus on climate change, the Green Alliance believed it could get MPs to vote for the draconian policies it lobbied for, on behalf of its billionaire and corporate backers, no matter what the public felt about climate change.
But this create a democratic deficit.
MPs were all on board the consensus. But they knew that their constituents wouldn't tolerate it.
But now there was a consensus, there was no possibility of debates, or contesting the principles of the agenda.
MPs were all on board the consensus. But they knew that their constituents wouldn't tolerate it.
But now there was a consensus, there was no possibility of debates, or contesting the principles of the agenda.
My letter about the #CEEBill in today's @TheScotsman:
On 1 September, MPs returning to Westminster will be met by citizens calling “We want to Live!” They plan to remain in protest until the house agrees to debate the newly-published Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill.
On 1 September, MPs returning to Westminster will be met by citizens calling “We want to Live!” They plan to remain in protest until the house agrees to debate the newly-published Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill.
Who are the “we” who want to live? Are we climate migrants, today forced from our homelands by conflicts born of famine and drought? Are we islanders, long grieving and angered by the devastation of rising seas, dying coral and unprecedented storms?
Are we children the world, over in our lifetime facing insufferable global heating and societal collapse? Or are we all Earth’s species, whose fate – mass extinction or eleventh-hour salvation – now lies in humanity’s clumsy hands?
THREAD - short infographic briefing on Citizens' Assemblies, which are at the heart of the @ExtinctionR third demand - #ExtinctionRebellion #BeyondPolitics #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
1. Representative assemblies are chosen at random from ordinary people. #ExtinctionRebellion #BeyondPolitics #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
2. The Citizens Assembly members learn about #ClimateEmergency issues with help from experts. #ExtinctionRebellion #BeyondPolitics #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
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Rory Stewart has gone walkabout.... 🚶♂️
He has ideas on Brexit and other things...
"Our leaders either don’t understand or don’t care what they’re doing to people"
thetimes.co.uk/article/rory-s…
Rory Stewart has gone walkabout.... 🚶♂️
He has ideas on Brexit and other things...
"Our leaders either don’t understand or don’t care what they’re doing to people"
thetimes.co.uk/article/rory-s…
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"At the moment I tend to be worried when I wake up at 3am about whether this no-deal Brexit episode suggests there are people in government who either don’t understand what they are doing or don’t care"
"At the moment I tend to be worried when I wake up at 3am about whether this no-deal Brexit episode suggests there are people in government who either don’t understand what they are doing or don’t care"
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He decided to set out on a journey across Britain to find out what the country really thought.
He spent time in Northern Ireland, the north of England, and the East End of London, where he arrived shortly after yet another knife attack.
He decided to set out on a journey across Britain to find out what the country really thought.
He spent time in Northern Ireland, the north of England, and the East End of London, where he arrived shortly after yet another knife attack.
A short positive thread on #CitizensAssemblies 👇
I’ve put a lot of effort into arguing the case for a #CitizensAssembly in Scotland & I’m totally committed to having a gold standard process
I stand by my comments that the #CitizensAssembly is a good way forward for Scotland in the #Brexit crisis. I see the ultimate destination as #independence. Others disagree. That’s the joy of democracy
In the shadow of the deplorable SCOTUS decision in #Rucho, it's time once again to talk about how to fix gerrymandering. So, here comes a thread.
(Betcha never seen a Twitter thread w/ToC before!)
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(Betcha never seen a Twitter thread w/ToC before!)
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Elections twitter peeps have probably heard me make these points before. You may agree with some, disagree with others. Either way, respond! Above all, I want to spark dialogue. I saw in BC how, when we don't get ahead of the curve, we end up behind it.
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The tweet count on this thread is gonna be high, but I'm gonna make just 4 key points here. Here they are, up front, as a table of contents:
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Some of my initial thoughts on this, a wee #thread: This is a momentous announcement - a potential milestone for democratic innovation in Scotland. But as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this temporary institution will be set up 1/?
Its legitimacy & effectiveness depends on various factors. I will focus on 3. Firstly, how will the broader public be included in the conversation? For example, there could be an online crowdsourcing platform to feed evidence and arguments at various stages of the assembly. 2/?
Also, assembly members can be supported to facilitate community meetings in their localities, helping to inform their thinking and contribution during the assembly -a kind of a hub and spokes system that keeps the assembly somewhat connected to the ground across the country. 3/?
We need a #GreenNewDeal and #JG. Most people aren't socialpathic. In their jobs, they don't want to work on making the planet unlivable for their children, they don't want to engage in fraud or corruption, they don't want to stand by while their coworkers are harassed and abused.
Most people don't want to build systems of mass surveillance, psychological manipulation, and autonomous weapons. Most people don't want to work on how to exploit others more and more. But fear, fear of unemployment and loss of livelihood gets people to work rapidly on all these.
This fear is real. Whistleblowers are completely destroyed in this system. This is a system of socialpaths, by socialpaths, for socialpaths. With impending climate catastrophe and massive concentration of autonomous means of violence, we need a new system immediately.
I’ve hit back at smear campaign against me calling for unity behind the #independence cause & an end to @theSNP infighting. The timetable for #indyref2 has been announced, our restiveness is at an end, with unity & civility we will win thenational.scot/news/17634132.…
The problem is that from the moment the first parliamentarian complained against was hung out to dry a signal was given to those with petty motivations that if you seek to smear an @theSNP MP or MSP the party won’t get behind them, even if they are exonerated
Its important that @theSNP elected representatives are not drawn into trashing our members and supporters who work so hard for the cause. The so-called ‘War on Cybernats’ last weekend was unnecessary and has really upset our core support
Who are we? We are life. These are our values and principles. We #RebelForLife. Join us and our non-violent and peaceful #InternationalRebellion. We will make government act now on the climate and ecological crisis.
rebellion.earth/the-truth/abou…
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Who are we? We are life. These are our values and principles. We #RebelForLife. Join us and our non-violent and peaceful #InternationalRebellion. We will make government act now on the climate and ecological emergency.
rebellion.earth/the-truth/abou…
rebellion.earth/the-truth/abou…
Who are we? We are life. These are our values and principles. We #RebelForLife. Join us and our non-violent and peaceful #InternationalRebellion. We will make government act now on the climate and ecological catastrophe.
rebellion.earth/the-truth/abou…
rebellion.earth/the-truth/abou…
Starting a separate thread on #CitizensAssembly so that the substance doesn't get buried among "welcome" tweets replying to @YellowJacketLa1's first tweet. #yellowjacketlady #YellowJacketWoman But it is a reply to her core point. 1/
The #CitizensAssembly (CA) has been such a successful recent innovation in the Irish constitutional tradition that it has now probably been accepted as an essential prelude to any future referendum in this country. 2/
Because our written, quite detailed and prescriptive 1937 Constitution can only be amended by referendum, we have found the CA is an excellent device for preparing a well-informed vote on controversial/toxic subjects like equal marriage or abortion. 3/
