Reclaiming Independence
By Justin Kenrick I think Mhairi McAlpin and Paul Kingsnorth have done us a great service (see Mhairi’s previous post – Unite?) with the discussion they have provoked on independence as a route… Read More
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Commons Manifesto (Part 2) – How can we squeeze CARBON out of the economy?
By Justin Kenrick Most of the serious commentators on climate change see us as having already gone past the point of no return. This is not because the emissions in the atmosphere and… Read More
Commons Manifesto
A spectre is haunting Europe. The spectre of climate change…
Being Human
By Justin Kenrick Mapping our route, based on a more accurate understanding of what it is to be human… If what we need is – in part – to create a set of… Read More
Place, Power, Transition & the Uncut Movement
What’s the potency of the Transition Movement?
Hit the North
“Economic ‘failure’ was used as an excuse for the IMF to privatise services, decimate societies and prop up or restore dictators across swathes of Latin America, Africa and elsewhere; and this approach is currently being used across southern Europe and is likely to reach the rest of us very soon…”
Change: Accelerator
Should those active in political parties who see the need to reign in corporate power, focus not on party building but on building a broader movement of which their parties are a part? Should they focus less on electoral strategy than on culture shift strategy, and on connecting this to addressing the democratic deficit?
How can we criticise the current system in a way that prefigures and helps enable a more just society?
By Justin Kenrick In a famous interview, the BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr asks Noam Chomsky whether he thinks Marr is “self-censoring”. Chomsky replies by saying, in effect: No, there is no self-censorship… Read More
Why do we Accept a System Driving us to Extinction?
By Justin Kenrick It is the expectations we have of each other (the assumption about what is the norm) that shapes what is possible. Until, that is, some event disrupts those temporary certainties… Read More
What is the Commons, and How does it Work?
By Justin Kenrick In a strange 1984 kind of way, most people know the term through the phrase ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’. (i) Neo-liberalism’s mistake: The so-called ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ The… Read More
The Commons is Alive and Well, and We Can Be Part of It
This is the second in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts – the third will try and answer the question: What is the Commons, and how… Read More
Climate Chaos – Can we stop it before its too late?
This is the first in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: The kinder Society we want’ posts – the second will argue that international agreements have failed and will fail: what is… Read More
The End of Nuclear Energy
This week, high profile environmentalists like George Monbiot (‘The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power‘) and Mark Lynas (‘What does the Japanese Quake Crisis Say About Nuclear Power’) wrote… Read More
Building a Movement for Yes!
BUILDING A MOVEMENT FOR YES! Saturday 28 November 2009 10.30 – 6.00 @ Out of the Blue As the plans for a referendum on Scottish independence are announced
