Then, as now, the insanity of climate inaction by our leaders had deep roots. Two major ones are the failures of our conventional media – to focus on systemic issues – and our reliance on the election of people to take poor political decisions in our place.
J’habite en France depuis 2005 mais mon film When Citizens Assemble n’a toujours pas de sous titres français. La honte! Alors j’ai trouvé une astuce aujourd’hui pour remédier cela, même que ce ne soit qu’une solution intermédiaire et incomplète. Le logiciel YouTube manque encore la capacité de faire des traductions des peu de plans du […]
I just finished reading this book – Creating Freedom. What a revelation! It brings together ideas from many non-fiction books I’ve read over the last 20 years. Then it adds an excellent wrapper. And that’s no mean wrapper. It’s the deceptively simple notion that each of us has no influence over the person that we […]
Ireland’s efforts to break a political deadlock over its de facto ban on abortion inspired a bold response – the creation of a Citizens’ Assembly to tackle on the issue. During five weekends spread over five months, a random selection of Irish people deliberated on the highly divisive and controversial issue. Their conclusion, in April […]
Great job by the Guardian reporter Gary Younge in nailing the US white supremacist Richard B Spencer in an interview. Exposing spectacular ignorance is the best defence against champions of racism. Spencer would be comical if he weren’t so dangerous. “If Africans had never existed, world history would have been almost exactly the same as […]
I was delighted to present this GlobalNet21 webinar on October 31, 2017 about my ongoing project for a nine-film series on democracy in crisis and real-world efforts to transform the way we do it. It includes a sneak preview of today’s working edit of the series launch film. The film features Ireland’s use of a […]
I’m a migrant. I left my native Scotland at 18 and haven’t lived there since. Having moved between a few different countries for study and work I now live in rural southwest France. I’ve been here for 12 years and counting. The experiences of all that moving has both exposed me to many foreigners and […]
