Democracy Local

COLUMN All Human Rights Are Local

As Nations Trample Rights, Cities Enshrine New Ones

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Everyday People Will Get Paid to Design Their Own City Council

Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly

I Went Back In Time to City Future

... a City's Democratic Future. I was more than a little startled when Konrad Adenauer approached me in the...

PHOTO CREDIT: A celebration outside the Louvre after Macron’s election victory in 2017. SOURCE: Photo by Lorie Shaull, via Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/number7cloud/34527195605 and Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

France: Too Central For Democracy?

Might this month’s French elections be the prelude to another French Revolution?

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, at World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 2009. Photo by Remy Steinegger, for World Economic Forum, via Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3488093359 and Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Stop the Next Putin at Home

Want to join the global fight against authoritarianism? Then participate in your community’s local government...

Save The World With Local Democracy

... Local Democracy.... September 15 is the International Day of Democracy, which brings together the sort of...