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Real Democracy Now but How?

iniref | 22.12.2009 14:05

Copenhagen showed up the need for new social change strategies.

How can governments be made to act responsibly? Campaigning, lobbying, protesting and demonstrating, while necessary are unlikely to produce adequate policy and action. An additional tool, which can force parliaments and governments to change direction is the citizens' initiative or law proposal. Detail about how this works may be found via
 http://campaignfordemocracy.org.uk/directdemocracyexamples/
 http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rodmell/
 http://www.iniref.org/index.enter.html
 http://www.iniref.org/carta.htm election campaign call

Companies and corporations can be directed and controlled by citizens' initiative and referendum (I and R).

Experts and concerned groups must modify their tactics in order to inform and appeal directly to the electorate.

Pro-environmental law has been made by I and R. An example from Europe is The Alpine Initiative, well recorded in a video to be found via
 http://www.iniref.org/alpine.html

Greetings
Michael

iniref
- e-mail: info@iniref.org
- Homepage: http://www.iniref.org/index.enter.html

Comments

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  1. A general discussion about "democracy"? — MDN
  2. V.interesting, anarchism & direct democracy share roots, it would need a vstrong — Sonof@Crow triker
  3. V.interesting, anarchism & direct democracy share roots, it would need a vstrong — Biker
  4. Yawn — .
  5. Real Democracy Now but How? A general discussion? — iniref
  6. That wasn't a "news" post and not intended as "ballast" — MDN
  7. MDN try reading "Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution" by Peter Kropotkin — Biker
  8. mdn — @