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jean lievens
August 4, 2016 4:01 PM
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Excerpted from Part Six of ‘Super-Smart Democracies: Dissolving Neoliberalism, Elitism and Managerialism’. Just as Copernicus dethroned the Earth from the centre of the Universe, so we now need to dethrone the debt-money system and the power of the plutocrats from the centre of our democratic universe. Without a democratic paradigm that is centred on the …
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jean lievens
July 22, 2016 5:09 AM
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Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
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June 1, 2016 3:34 PM
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“Future of Democracy” Conference — Reykjavik, IcelandOn May 21st, I had the great honor to give a lecture in Reykjavik on the democratic experiments curren…
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jean lievens
May 16, 2016 12:19 PM
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"Grant Township had seen what happens when people nationwide take to the streets to protest bullying corporations: Arrests. Lots of them. So Grant Township planned ahead. Two weeks ago, it passed a law that protects its residents from arrest if they protest Pennsylvania General Energy Company’s (PGE) creation of an injection well. Residents believe this law is the first in the United States to legalize nonviolent civil disobedience against toxic wastewater injection wells. Township Supervisor Stacy Long said. “We’re doing it to safeguard the residents and protect as many people as possible,” she said. Long said legalizing direct action is a response to the ongoing problem of rural residents seeing their voices excluded from discussions between state governments and big corporations on issues that have local ramifications."
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jean lievens
May 7, 2016 3:29 AM
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reinventingdemocracy.org is a website dedicated to documenting and compiling experiments and experiences in the reinvention of politics. While theories of politics and democracy have value, and commentary on the political problems we face is also important, this website seeks to be a platform for documenting the solutions, innovations, inventions and experiments that are happening across the…
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jean lievens
April 16, 2016 7:26 AM
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It started with an email many months ago about protesting the fact that what the people want has no influence in legislation, while money very much does. If we could get 1000 people willing to risk arrest for a protest of this sad state of affairs, then let’s do it! We got well over 1000 within 2 weeks, and 3000, ultimately.
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jean lievens
April 13, 2016 10:31 AM
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Over 300 of “Democracy Spring” protesters have been arrested on the steps of the US Capitol. Thousands of activists arrived in Washington DC, after a 10-day, 140-mile (225km) march from Philadelphia, to protest the role of money in politics.
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jean lievens
April 10, 2016 6:45 AM
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March 8, 2016 2:24 PM
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Some reflections from Berlin on the launch of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) on 9 February, 2016.
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jean lievens
February 13, 2016 9:45 AM
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OMG! They’re here! We’ve been having a Mad Science kind of summer. One of our most exciting experiments has just bubbled out of the lab and into the wild. Announcing... EMOJIS!
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jean lievens
January 29, 2016 5:27 PM
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January 23, 2016 3:08 PM
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jean lievens
January 23, 2016 9:39 AM
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A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. We do not have the lives we want and our children’s future is threatened because of social conditions that can and should be changed. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. One key solution is thus the institution of genuine economic democracy as the basis for a genuine political democracy as well. That means transforming the workplace in our society as we propose in what follows.
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jean lievens
July 26, 2016 6:19 AM
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The term post-democracy was coined by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. It designates states that are conducted by fully operating democratic systems ( elections are being held, governments fall and there is freedom of speech), but whose application is progressively limited.
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jean lievens
June 8, 2016 4:42 PM
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The global meeting “Democratic Cities: Commons Technology and the Right to a Democratic City”, held in Madrid from 23 to 28 May, produced a meaningful international dialogue between some of the world’s most outstanding players on issues surrounding technology, democracy and participation. Extracting Twitter data for hashtags #CiudadesDemocráticas, #DemocracyLab and #DCENTMadrid shapes a network that reveals vital details about the event.
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jean lievens
May 16, 2016 12:57 PM
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May 7, 2016 3:33 AM
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The Democracy Commons Project (DCP) is a platform to publish resources, articles, videos, collaborative networks, to act as a catalyst in stimulating the social innovation of new democratic forms and projects. We live in a time where a new generation of political activist call for participatory democracy, and where a new generation of technologies potentiate…
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jean lievens
April 26, 2016 4:34 PM
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Democracy is created in the seizing of it: those who are democratizing movement are those who, in their actions, are implicitly or explicitly demanding the abolition of borders.
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jean lievens
April 14, 2016 4:58 AM
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A hacker claims to have maintained an army of 30,000 fake Twitter profiles that helped candidates win elections in Latin America.
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jean lievens
April 13, 2016 10:28 AM
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Join us in D.C. from April 11th to April 16th to sit-in at the US Capitol demanding Congress take immediate action to end the corruption of money in politics and ensure free and fair elections for all!
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jean lievens
March 20, 2016 1:31 AM
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February 20, 2016 5:18 AM
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Ministers will stop councils boycotting unethical companies. How can they claim to believe in localism?
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jean lievens
February 7, 2016 4:48 PM
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Analysis Bitcoin - The Bitcoin of politics: Flux Party offers radical new model for democracy | Poll
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jean lievens
January 25, 2016 3:30 PM
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The material on ancient democracy in India is not easy for a non-specialist to work with. My own interpretation of the evidence and its significance can be found in Democracy in Ancient India. However, the reader may want to check this essay against the ancient sources and other modern interpretations.
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jean lievens
January 23, 2016 9:56 AM
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Building a real democracy in the face of corporate and financial power will require a rethinking of power and agency, unleashing the creative, experimental, knowledge-sharing and emancipatory approaches of social movements.
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