Social Justice
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume Three, Peace, Social Justice, Theory
From disruption to destruction
"What is it going to take?" I know your job seems important right now. I know your 'clean record' so you can still fly overseas seems important now (not that it actually stops anyone from travelling, so far). I know that police are scary, the state is scary. I know, I have been arrested 33 times now. [...]
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Social Justice
Talking degrowth in Zagreb
Anitra Nelson, scholar-activist and member of Degrowth Central Victoria, reports on a recent international degrowth conference and an international degrowth network assembly which took place in Zagreb in late August and early September. Zagreb (Croatia) provocatively winks at visitors. A human-scale capital of just one million inhabitants it has grown a museum of broken relationships, a museum of hangovers, a... Read More
Culture, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume Three, Social Justice
Visioning futures
If, in the future, we would like to be able to safely house climate refugees in our neighbourhoods, what do we need to be agitating for now? What needs to change in how we understand housing, property, and the right to safe shelter? What do we need to unlearn in settler-colonial entitlement and domination, what racism and xenophobia must we... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume Two, Social Justice, Theory
Like futurology
There’s something about Tim Hollo’s Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, that feels like that, like futurology. So I want to talk about the end of the world and liberation amid its end and about the kind of ecological politics that may help us get us past it. All this is... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume Two, Social Justice, Theory
A New Common Sense
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. Living Democracy presents us with a powerful framework to think about where we have come from, where we want to go, and how to get there. Once we can see and believe, change can happen quite quickly. [...]
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Changing what’s possible, living democracy
Tim Hollo and Anthony James of the RegenNarration podcast explore in conversation the power of community to shape politics, and the stories that nurture Living Democracy. [...]
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Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume Two, Social Justice, Theory
The multitudes at the margins
When I read Living Democracy and the uplifting and hopeful possibilities contained in Barcelona en Comú and the general assemblies in Rojava, I’m reminded that we are currently so far away from this it’s hard to see the path there. [...]
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Living democracy: not a blueprint, but a pathway
I am 72 years old, so I have seen the highs and lows of many progressive mass movements. Tim Hollo's optimistic but realistic outlook in Living Democracy fits closely with my own beliefs. We are clearly living through a period of massive industry and workplace transition in response to the climate catastrophe. This is the reality that campaigners and activists... Read More
Democracy, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume One, Social Justice
From arts to politics
Before I got into politics, I worked as an artist, making large scale public artworks for museums and galleries around the world, drawing people into the conversation about how to create the world that we want to live in. In 2014 I was invited to exhibit in the Sydney Biennale. It was the opportunity of a lifetime. The grand final... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume One, Social Justice, Theory
Transforming towards living
Are we changing politics more than politics is changing us? It’s a question we rarely ask ourselves in any kind of formal way. But it’s one that more and more members and supporters are asking, when confronted by the vast gulf between politics-as-usual and the ecological, economic, social and political crises we face. [...]
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