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Support advocacy for a “Government BY the People”
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Categorizing Activities
People at any given moment can be divided into the front line and everyone else. We must have activities to support both. Some ideas for the front lines: Pass out materialsConversational Outings (where people aggressively seek to engage people in … Continue reading
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DVD on Athens, including info on sortition
I found this PBS documentary enlightening. From my understanding of the classical Athenian political system, this presentation overplays the role of elections and underplays the role of sortition. [Obtained through Netflix.] Athens: The Dawn of Democracy 2007 NR 120 minutes … Continue reading
Then and Now and What’s Ahead
Then and Now and What’s AheadAn “Un-Common” InterviewWith Sortitionist David GrantbyA Younger ManDecember 2030Now that the Citizen Chamber has completed the second year of its allotted trialperiod of twelve, one of the initial instigators of the sortitional method – what … Continue reading
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Then and Now and What’s Ahead: An “Un-Common” Interview in the year 2030
Just posted to the website of Common Lot Productions: Whimsically provocative interview from the future. A look back and a look forward from the perspective of the year 2030 when sortitional selection of a Citizen Chamber in the U.S. Congress … Continue reading
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The question is: How to support lobbyists for “Government By the People”?
I’ve added FAQs to http://www.TheCommonLot.com … which, in my humble opinion, unassailably make the case for sortition as the means to establish a ‘government BY the people’. (It can be said that we already have a government ‘of’ the people … Continue reading
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Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics and Change
The challenges of the twenty-first century are of an unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care—all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease if they were occurring on a … Continue reading
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Common Lot Productions creates print and video materials which educate about, and advocate for, the next step for democracy. Policy-making bodies, from local to national, should be composed of willing and able citizens proportional to the population they serve. The … Continue reading
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