Stories

Citizens for Climate
Germany
Insights from two Citizens for Climate Participation Pop-Ups in Denmark and Belgium
  Climate change is a challenge that affects everyone, but not everyone gets the same opportunity to have a say in how we respond to it. Across Europe, new ways of involving people in climate decisions are emerging. Citizens'...
JAKARTA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How to Retool for Resilient Democracy
Defending Democracy Needs More Savvy and Sacrifice From Civil Society
Global
Democracy Local: An Introduction
Welcome to a new planetary publication, about local democracy, and of, by and for everyday people governing...
USA
EL PAÍS: Kamala y California
Durante su carrera en el Estado, la actual candidata presidencial se limitó a hacer su trabajo de forma...
USA
EL PAÍS: On Kamala & California
California is too exceptional to explain the vice president.
USA
COLUMN: Will City Hall Save Us From the Body Snatchers?
Local government vs the planetary threat
Ride the Democratic Wave poster by Democracy International
European Union
Turning the Tide: The Need for Democracy Champions in the European...
Ahead of the European elections, we ran our Democratic Wave campaign together with FIDE – Europe to mobilise...
USA
COLUMN: Rudest City Council Ever?
An extraordinary report on local misbehavior
Laos
A Mine and the Village Water
A leak from a rare-earth mine threatens villages in northern Laos
USA
Local Measures Need a Counter
Two contradicatory ballot measures teach us better than one
Pakistan
The Longest Sit-In
An agreement, and confusion, follows protests in a border city
Denmark
NEWSLETTER: Free Alexei Gorinov
Summer films, songs & reading, in local democracy. Also: Dem Next to Kashmir