Love seeing folks’ pics of the #NorthernLights - that often missed sense of wonderment uniting us all😊

Some progressives who inhabit elite spaces in media or academia or think-tank need to speak to real people more. Their echo chamber is thin and shallow. Progressives should be embracing real life as important source of many progressive ideas and practice.

Yes. More local and community ownership is key. Alongside enlightened stewardship. #communitywealthbuilding . This is pressing given the burgeoning renewable energy 'wind rush' and Scotland as a carbon offsetting sink.

Syracuse & SUNY-ESF solidarity encampment ghettoized with fences & cops is a classic example of settler-colonialism when the Onondaga Nation on whose lands the university sits on has supported the solidarity encampment & is present. Faculty & community members also on site.

Leaving Cleveland OH. Off to Raleigh NC #communitywealthbuilding USA.

I find American's generally chatty and friendly and occasionally quirky. Some random fella just commented on my green shorts. Preceding comment by telling me that his cousin has exactly same pair...and he has a sausage food van, specialising in bratwurst!

Impressive indeed - they could also produce so much social good by working with community groups like my friends at Open Gates: opengates.scot - an amazing group of people.

We are hearing from Mairi Gougeon about the importance of community voices in the Land Reform Bill consultation

To advance #communitywealthbuilding is a key act of economic control. It can help neighbourhoods, towns, cities and nations tl build an economy that genuinely works in interests of citizens. To ignore means one is prepared to accept no control and lack of independence.

I wish Americans didn't put cheese on side salads.

Great seeing Grace Blakeley and Lisa Nandy agree the merits of the #PrestonModel and #CommunityWealthBuilding on #bbcqt tonight.

For Preston Labour it is our way of taking back control to benefit our communities and empower working people.

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Nice poster. Outside of Cleveland Owns office.

Public polling suggests substantial majorities in favour of much more ambitious land reform than current plans offer - including a maximum cap on land ownership, regulations on climate targets and the introduction of a land tax.

(For the last point, see: commonweal.scot/policies/taxin…)

Thank you, Neil! You are welcome to stop by our office and talk #communitywealthbuilding anytime! And we'll take all the Joe Guinan books he's got. Lots of work ahead of us!

When a progressive system change movement like #communitywealthbuilding grows, there are those who wish to dilute it. Timid in face of wealth and power they say CWB is just local economic development. Downplaying the system change, economic democracy and social justice.

I meet the best community wealth builders in many places across the world. This growing set of folks from politics, policy, strategy, business or community have a common mission. To change the economic system that fails to deliver for people or planet. #communitywealthbuilding

I meet the best community wealth builders in many places across the world. This growing set of folks from politics, policy, strategy, business or community have a common mission. To change the economic system that fails to deliber for people or planet. #communitywealthbuilding

#communitywealthbuilding can start as a cooperative or as a place based revitalization strategy. But those are just the beginnings - the entry points. CWB is more a model and practice for economic system change delivering an economy that works for people, place and planet!

Amazing selection of US political pin badges as displayed in The City Club of CLE