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PROPOSAL: 21st Century Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting

Event: 30-31 March 2012 NYC Participatory Budgeting 21st Century Network Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting Participatory budgeting is a very important step in the right direction, but in the larger context of both obstacles presented by corrupt governance and what is possible enabled by the Internet, it can be taken–quickly–to a higher level. Participatory budgeting …

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Tom Atlee: A presidential candidate signs the Co-Intelligence Institute’s Politician’s Pledge

Dear friends, Robert Steele, a long-time colleague of mine and presidential hopeful with the Reform Party (see PS below), has just become the second politician to sign the Co-Intelligence Institute’s Politician’s Pledge http://bit.ly/SteelePledge.  This pledge commits the politician to take seriously any properly convened and facilitated citizens deliberative council – to post its results on …

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Robert Steele Speaks in Plenary at Presidential Conference

Robert David Steele is speaking and answering questions for one hour from 0800 Thursday morning, 5 January 2012, at the College Convention 2012 in Concord, New Hampshire.  The first multi-party event of the electoral season in New Hampshire, it includes appearances by “one major,” Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, and Buddy Roemer, among others.   …

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Tom Atlee: Occupy’s Thinking — and Michael Moore’s

Exploring OWS’s collective thinking process – and Michael Moore’s Below are four documents that provide interesting insight into the kinds of energies and proposals that get born through Occupy Wall Street’s collective thinking process of working groups and General Assembly deliberations. The first document is a “Statement of Autonomy” passed by consensus at the OWS …

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Warren Edward Pollock: Interviewing Robert David Steele on Changing the Trajectory of the US Security State

For many years, Robert was in the Republican Party until Dick Cheney hijacked both the party and the White House. He briefly joined the Libertarian Party and considered running for Congress as a Libertarian (VA-11) but ended up focusing on Electoral Reform as the “one thing” that could mobilize all of us who are now …

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Occupy Update (Inter-Occupy National Initiatives)

Occupy Update (Inter-Occupy National Initiatives) Posted on 2011/12/26   Past Call Notes Official Announcements and Notes for This Meeting Informal notes below the line.   Direct Report on Media Group VERY impressive.  Monitoring media better than any government.  Thinking creatively about messaging, outreach. Discussion of National Hearts and Minds Strategy Working group forming Discussion of …

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