Many of us in the west believe they live in a democratic society. But do we, really?
Fifteen years ago, I "discovered" Democratic Education and Sociocracy: A truly empowering way of education and a democratic system that is much more democratic than the popular "majority of votes" version. So, I took the initiative, together with Jaqcueline van Ewijk and Suzanne Thissen to start doe040, a democratic school based on sociocracy.
Anyway, only recently, I discov…
Did you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…
Bolivia es "la crónica de un desastre anunciado: cuando la izquierda olvida que la unidad popular es condición de supervivencia, la democracia se convierte en una vía expedita para restaurar el poder oligšrquico y desmantelar en meses lo que costó décadas construir."
Democracia en América Latina: entre la esperanza y el secuestro oligšrquico - Por Daniel Jadue – NODAL
Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke #environment
More news from the extermination camp of Gaza.
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/114908465532225924
Ist die USA noch eine Demokratie?
Nicht mehr, im Moment, meint Thomas Zimmerer. Seine Argumente kann man hier hören:
https://www.srf.ch/audio/echo-der-zeit/wie-steht-es-um-die-demokratie-in-den-usa?partId=_m0M6ThcQNjCLK…
Trump on Tuesday canceled a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders to avoid a shutdown over government funding, arguing it could not “possibly be productive”.
The reversal leaves the two parties in Washington without a solution to keep the government open past Sept. 30,
when the current fiscal year ends and funding runs out.
The meeting scheduled for Thursday was intended to negotiate a path forward.