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Author Archives: Common Lot Sortitionist
Text of “Steps Toward Abolishing War…”
TEXT WITH VISUALS for the lecture: “Steps Toward Abolishing War: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping and A Two-Legged Democracy” (video, following item)by David Grant The Peace Studies Lectureat Saint Lawrence University4 November 2013
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“Looking at Democracy” contest overlooks sortition
The “Looking at Democracy” contest chose its winners last week. You can view them by clicking here. Unfortunately none of my three video entries promoting sortition (http://bit.ly/12cm9KW, http://bit.ly/107tsEP, http://bit.ly/10kD782) were chosen. It seems the judges steered away from any proposals for fundamental or structural … Continue reading
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Towards a Two-Legged Democracy: A Trilogy
These three, stylistically different, 3-minute shorts were created for the Looking at Democracy contest. Towards a Two-Legged Democracyhttps://vimeo.com/110038574 Making Democracy Real – The argument for legislative jurieshttp://lookingatdemocracy.org/submissions/14951-making-democracy-real-th… Making Democracy Realityhttp://lookingatdemocracy.org/submissions/15129-making-democracy-reality
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Vote for sortition at the Looking at Democracy contest
Please vote for one of my entries to the Looking at Democracy contest Click to see: Towards a Two-Legged Democracy Making Democracy Real – The argument for legislative juries Making Democracy Reality Each is near the 3-minute maximum allowed by … Continue reading
Raising funds to enter the “Looking at Democracy” contest
I am trying to raise $1,000 (by 28 April) to make a short video to enter MacArthur Foundation”s ” Looking At Democracy” contest. Please CONTRIBUTE AT: http://tilt.tc/52vH Thank you.
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Auctioning ‘script to change history’
Sometimes it takes a little chutzpah to move things along. I am auctioning on Ebay my hand-annotated edited print-out of The Common Lot Fights for Random. short URL is http://alturl.com/ysegi
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Why Elections are the Problem and How to Make Democracy Real
I hope you will purchase my just-published essay “Why Elections are the Problem and How to Make Democracy Real”. Or cut & paste: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081H7JVC The essay begins with a short review of how and why elections inherently produce legislatures which … Continue reading
Wikimania proposal: Why Elections Are The Problem and How to Make Democracy Real
For those of you who use Wikipedia, notice that ‘Wikimania’ will be in Washington 12-15 July. I have just proposed a presentation: “Why Elections Are the Problem and How To Make Democracy Real”. IF YOU ARE GOING or KNOW ANYONE … Continue reading
Right-wing conservative proposal to use sortition
Coming from the right-wing in Texas, interesting to see they suggest using sortition to select a ‘super grand jury’ for the sake of, possibly, resisting federal enforcement of what any citizen might want to declare as unconstitutional. 10th Amendment Commission … Continue reading
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One of the concerns expressed about a legislature that is “BY” the people is that ‘the people’ would easily be corrupted and bribed. I don’t think the statistics have changed that much since this 2007 article. http://harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001300 Using sortition to … Continue reading
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