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Laureate Mairead Maguire: building 'deep democracy'

Laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy’ is built by people, one to one, and demanding that the money be taken out of militarism.

By Jane Gabriel

Published: May 29, 2009, 9:05 pm

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In the third podcast from the Nobel Women's Initiative gathering in Antigua laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy' is built by people standing up, building ‘personal democracy' one to one, and demanding that the money be taken out of militarism.

Listen now to some of the ideas discussed during three days of women ‘Redefining democracy for peace, justice and equality', and to Mairead Maguire's call to action.

To read articles and the conference blog written by participants and the openDemocracy team click here.

Jane Gabriel

Jane Gabriel founded and edited the openDemocracy project 50.50 in 2006, publishing critical perspectives on social justice, gender and pluralism. She retired in 2016.

Prior to joining openDemocracy, Jane produced and directed more than 30 documentaries for Channel 4 Television and the BBC international current affairs series 'Correspondent', winning the Royal Television Society and One World Media awards for documentaries filmed in Greece and India. In 1980s she was a member of the UK's first all-women television production company, Broadside. In the 1970s she worked at Granada TV in the UK, and at Pacifica radio KPFA in the US. She is a qualified advocate for children in care and a trustee of the IF Project.

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