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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

Speaking as a party member. Is it possible to consider a more stupid policy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to support? Oversees workers provide a lifeline for a service on its knees. This will inevitably result in reduced care quality for the most vulnerable 🤯 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A red wall box in a circular stone box with roof. Behind it is a castle with trees and in grass

And the award for the loveliest rustic postbox in a castle setting goes to this little gem at Chirk Castle in Wrexham

In Brazil this week for prep meetings for the Global Citizens’ Assembly for #COP30 and really tuning into how we can working with farming, forest, indigenous and any community that’s living in harmony with the land…

Turkey’s autocratic descent has lessons for the US The erosion of democracy happens bit by bit and then all at once

Turkey’s autocratic descent has lessons for the US

Great to see @pollycurtis.bsky.social in news yesterday pushing for a better plan to activate people www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Today I’m at Windsor trying to work out precisely how we do this with @localtrust.org.uk Here’s my initial take 👇

A great interview of Asif by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social with some brilliant quotes:

YouTube video by NEON 2073 - Official Trailer

Kapadia won an Oscar for Amy, his heartbreaking film about Amy Winehouse. This is emotional too, a sci fi thriller set in the future made of fragments of the present. I tell the story of how I accidentally ended up in the film. But it’s so much more than that.

youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...

This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..

www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop Co-hosted by Iswe Foundation and Participedia, this open virtual workshop will explore methods for global citizen assembly selection.

🔔 Mark your calendars!

@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.

📅 Date: 23 April 2025

⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET

Register now!

Citizen participation and technology: lessons from the fields of deliberative democracy and science and technology studies - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Citizen participation and technology: lessons from the fields of deliberative democracy and science and technology studies

It's a theme that Iñaki Goñi explores in this fantastic new paper on how STS and Deliberative democracy should talk more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... - exploring how for some "digital technologies promise to close the gap between careful deliberation and mass participation"

📢 Call for participation!

Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?

Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.

CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Trump & Elon's CEO-Dictator Playbook | Gil Duran | TMR

MUST WATCH : @gilduran.com explains not only what, why and how the tech bros and Trump came together to destroy democracy, but also why and how the mainstream Democrats are being so quiet: many are just hoping for a cut of the billionaire $$$.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66yV...

Join Prof Luis Cabrera, Dr @marithammond.bsky.social, @richwil.bsky.social, and Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi as they discuss the promise, limits, and future development of transnational citizen initiatives and other forms of citizen involvement in policy-making on matters of global concern.
#polisky

New forms of citizen participation in global governance 7pm Tuesday 4 March 2025 | New forms of citizen participation in global governance | Free public event at LSE

New forms of citizen participation in global governance

Join a conversation on 4 March between Luis Cabrera, @marithammond.bsky.social and @richwil.bsky.social on the development of transnational citizen initiatives, such as the Global Climate Assembly.

#CitizensAssembly

How a New Global Citizens’ Assembly Can Revive Climate Action - European Democracy Hub A new permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet is being established for the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30).

🌱🌍 While faith in multilateralism has severely declined due to rising geopolitical uncertainty, a new permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly is being launched for COP30, offering a new model of inclusive global governance.

4/6 📚

@richwil.bsky.social @iswe-foundation.bsky.social

🌎 🌱 While public faith in climate multilateralism has been severely undermined by rising geopolitical uncertainty, a new permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly introduces a new model of inclusive, action-driven global governance.

Latest commentary
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✍️ Rich Wilson (@richwil.bsky.social) and David Levaï, Iswe Foundation (@iswe-foundation.bsky.social)

WTF? I mean what? For real?!? 😵‍💫

Civic Activism in an Intensifying Climate Crisis To address the deepening climate crisis, climate activism is employing a wider variety of tactics and aiming at a broader set of goals. In response, the movement faces stronger repression and civic…

As climate change accelerates, civic activism has diversified its tactics of engagement to progress on climate goals.

But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️

Politics vs Policy The paralysis of technocratic government in a populist age

New post just out:

"Policy vs Politics: the paralysis of technocratic government in a populist age"

Why Labour is getting stuck on identifying an approach to governing.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...

Looks like Ramaswarmy got the best ROI.

I think it’s what Morgan McSweeney has decided will play best with swing voters in Basildon & Billericay. Or me might have already given up on that, given the majority of 20 🤣

YouTube video by Extreme Hangout Extreme Hangout COP29, Baku | The Global Struggle for a Better Politics

At #COP29 the US elections and @clubofrome.bsky.social Open Letter calling for COP reform generated real debate around how to change politics. This was my response on the global political systems change movement youtu.be/J0H-O-0d2EY?...

Betting on Real Democracy How a Randomized People’s Assembly could Fix our Broken Legislature

How a randomized People‘ Assembly could fix the broken US legislature

Great read by @nickcoccoma.bsky.social, Maxwell Goodman and @drpaulzeitz.bsky.social

#CitizensAssembly

YouTube video by Extreme Hangout Extreme Hangout COP29

At #COP29 🌐 today Wednesday 13 Nov. Join me and Noora Firaq 🇲🇻 from Climate Outreach for:
The Global Struggle for a Better Politics
Extreme Hangout, Greenzone 🌍
13 Nov. 2024
15:00 - 15:30

Post Trumps re-election there's still grounds for a better politics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7G5...

Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Last year, I wrote this about how the climate COPs are structured in a way that guarantees failure, and made some suggestions about what a successful structure might look like. I'm not expecting any government to listen, but you have to try, don't you?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

cop29.com At COP29.com, join the call for climate justice. We demand that fossil fuel companies fund the loss and damage Fund to aid people hit hardest by climate change

'Fossil fuel companies broke the planet, they should pay for it,' says website cop29.com

via Global Witness
#COP29Baku
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New report: Priorities for public engagement in climate policy - Climate Citizens | Lancaster University | Assembly on climate change Bringing climate policy to the people. Climate Citizens is a project run out of Lancaster University aiming to change how people engage with the creation of climate policy.

What do people want from government on climate change? This new briefing summarises our research, and says that people want action, but don't trust government.

We suggest a much more upfront dialogue with citizens.

climatecitizens.org.uk/new-report-p...

If anyone's headed to #COP29 I'll be in Baku Mon to Fri this week for Global Citizens' Assembly creating a permanent citizens' track from COP30. Get in touch if you fancy a ☕ 🍵 🍻 Our event Tues 12 Nov, 11.15am - 12.15pm AZT in Blue Zone with Brazil Gov, ECF, CECG, African Climate Foundation + more!

Democracy was the top issue apparently amongst US voters. We the democracy field have a hell of a lot of work to do... www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...