Watch me set out the case for the important role #CitizensAssemblies can play to improve policy and restore trust in politics.
All we are asking for is staying alive on a liveable planet #endfossilfuel #citizensassemblies
For most volunteers at Volt Europa, the weekend is the best time to get some work done. Today I'm writing about #CitizensAssemblies and the need for more #ParticipatoryDemocracy in the EU 🇪🇺
Yes, we're the canary. We don't have all the solutions (other than no more burning #FossilFuels ) that will allow us all a decent life, that's why we're calling for #CitizensAssemblies to take the toxic #PartyPolitics out of it and decide the way forward.
Today we launch a Challenge Paper, co-authored and supported by United Nations Foundation Iswe Foundation Southern Voice Plataforma CIPÓ United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK)
A roadmap for Strengthening Citizen Participation In Global Governance.
➡️Read here: gcacoalition.org 1/5
#CitizensAssemblies
Our economies were largely designed without input from the people they serve.
#CitizensAssemblies , like the one held in Scotland ahead of COP26 offer one way of putting people back in the picture 🙋🏽♀️ - WEAll's Amanda Janoo
#SirFlipFlop #KeirStarmer / #TelAvivKeith 🩴 strikes again!
#Labour are backtracking on the “ #CitizensAssemblies ” proposals after they were roundly derided by many today.
Can The Labour Party not U-turn on a policy position for longer than a day? telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…
So how can our political system be democratic when £3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and climate denial, says report theguardian.com/environment/20…. They aren’t altruistic - they want a return on their investment. My vote can’t count - we need #CitizensAssemblies
#CitizensAssemblies #Solutions
Don’t pay the rich and powerful
to line their own pockets
Pay us The Great British Public
to sort out the mess they got us into
#PowerToThePeople
New paper out in Climatic Change Journal with Irina Papazu & Adam Veng.
How can #CitizensAssemblies help mobilize people around climate politics? In short, more attention must be given to the links between assemblies and civil society.
Open access available here: doi.org/10.1007/s10584…
👏I'm always moved by the testimonies of participants in #citizensassemblies and the personal impact the experience has had on them.
🎙️I'd like to share last week intervention of Danica, a member of the citizens' assembly on #corruption in Montenegro 🇲🇪 1/N
As a charity that designs and delivers #citizensassemblies , it's been great to see the growing conversations that are being had about the potential they have to help rebuild trust in politics, including Rory Stewart & ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on The Rest Is Politics.
Full episode 🔊👇
Should government use independent citizens’ assemblies, representative of the population as a whole, to advise on controversial but important policies?
#CitizensAssemblies
#PollOfTheDay
.XR UK Citizens’ Assembly Working Group have a series of short videos to help explain #CitizensAssemblies and how they can expand democracy.
We should all have a voice in government decisions of critical importance.
Reliance on self-interested politicians bought out by multinational corporations is…
Excited to be en route to The Hague for DemocracyNext International Task Force on Democratising City Planning.
demnext.org/projects/democ…
#cities #citizensassemblies #planning
