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One of the most important things you can do for yourself and your community this spring is to take yourself and a friend to a Democracy School. Democracy Schools are hosted by local grassroots groups and taught by staff and friends of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). They challenge just about everything we [...]

Jaye Gaskia 12:06pm Jan 3 REMEMBER? LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN! One year ago today the January Uprising of 2012 began to take its first tentative steps. Jan 2012 was the day the civil society wing of the Labour civil society coailition began the mass resistance to the inhuman and unprecedented hike in fuel price. From [...]

Share International Magazine dedicated five pages to the occupy story and personal interviews exploring where the Occupy Movement is headed one year down the road.  This international spiritual publication with a universalist emphasis on the divinity of humanity and earth as a whole, focusses on issues of peace and justice, and as the name implies, declares [...]

With the OWS 1 yr anniversary upon us, i’ve been reflecting on how the world has changed because of these world-wide demonstrations of people power.  People are fed up, and i love it.  It’s so hopeful to finally see those getting reemed, fracked, ripped-off and dismissed … standing up together.  The world is taking notice. [...]

As most of the country is distracted by the hoop-la of the big two conventions, some are actively working to find alternatives to the sorry state of democracy in the U.S. The challenges: New laws in many States to purge select voters from rolls, redrawing voting districts to minimize African American votes, turning formerly able [...]

I admire my friends from the Major Group of Children and Youth, one of the 9 United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development Major Groups (ie. global civil society stakeholders). These groups went to Rio+20 in the hopes of salvaging something, ANYTHING useful out of those deliberations.   Rio+20 was supposed to set an international agreement [...]

The World Social Forum has been around since 2001, and with their rallying call “Another World is Possible”, they share much in common with the system critiques emerging out of the Occupy and Commons Movements. When Occupy burst forth in the U.S. this past Fall, hot on the heels of the Arab Spring and uprisings in Spain, [...]

In a recent US Social Forum update two key organizers of the USSF are interviewed regarding their thoughts on the Occupy Movement.  Here are the some of the insights shared with us by Maureen Taylor, the State Chairperson of Michigan Welfare Rights Union and co-chair of the Detroit Local Organizing Committee for the 2010 USSF and George [...]

Using Public Deliberation: Co-governing the Commons By Jan Inglis Commons: gifts of nature & society; wealth we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished or enhanced, to our children; e.g. water, oceans, culture, technology, seeds etc Public Deliberation: a process for reaching agreements by deeply considering the costs, consequences, and trade offs of various [...]

Social Charters:  Praxis of the Commons By James Bernard Quilligan, Commons Economist & Advocate                 Beyond the Market State There are two operating systems involved in the provision and allocation of goods and services in modern society. Each has familiar roots in history. Adam Smith’s legacy is that the self-interest [...]