Those few cold months camped outside St Pauls were a fragile attempt to create a political subject beyond the terrain of politics as usual.
In our current moment, we are witnessing a global, if contradictory, conversation about what public-ness might mean.
Wanted: more insight into effective community organisation, particularly in the field of education and political economy education.
Project COBRA is an EU project which advocates the position that local communities have the capacity to identify their own "best practices" and share them with others.
So where has the growth gone; who is it for? Who has benefited from the ‘economic miracle’? The middle class have become rich; the rich have become super rich: the super rich stellar rich.
In order to navigate our increasing interdependence, we need a mental map to help us decide what sort of a rapport we wish to have with billions of others with whom we share our planet and destinies, but not our citizenship. And for that we need forums.
The issues change almost on a weekly basis, but the problem only becomes worse - the AKP’s slide into the grey area between majoritarian democracy and authoritarianism.
Michigan’s political elite is pushing the city of Detroit—wellspring of industrial unionism, home of soul music—into bankruptcy. In the words of Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?”
Violators of the laws are freed without trial, war criminals are released without punishment, corrupt officials are bathed in secrecy, enemies of peace are pardoned, so where is the rule of law in the new nation?
