tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332705070970440208.comments2014-04-04T08:12:23.753+01:00Taycoast SSPtaycoastssphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952920201408728802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332705070970440208.post-31622950179896817052010-04-22T20:02:34.406+01:002010-04-22T20:02:34.406+01:00or spoiling your ballot which is a more conscious ...or spoiling your ballot which is a more conscious act than not turning up.<br /><br />40% not turning up are portrayed as apathetic. 40% spoiling their ballot are making a active political statement.Alan Ghttp://www.dundeessp.org/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332705070970440208.post-44779783512301573252010-03-03T15:29:14.286+00:002010-03-03T15:29:14.286+00:00Apologies, forgot to hyperlink the link http://www...Apologies, forgot to hyperlink the link <a href="http://www.tni.org/tnibook/reclaim-state-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.tni.org/tnibook/reclaim-state-1</a>ninaskitchen.nlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098413087383508017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332705070970440208.post-91108956304482684042010-03-03T15:24:13.426+00:002010-03-03T15:24:13.426+00:00John,
On the subject of participatory politics, ...John, <br /><br />On the subject of participatory politics, British sociologist Hilary Wainwright has just published a book on the subject:<br />Reclaim the State? Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull, 2009)<br />http://www.tni.org/tnibook/reclaim-state-1<br /><br />It's not only Latin America, it seems, that has experimented with an alternative to representative democracy. Apart from the Porto Alegre case (where participatory budgeting has been in practice for some time now), the book includes a few inspiring case studies from Newcastle, Luton, a Norwegian town, etc.ninaskitchen.nlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098413087383508017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332705070970440208.post-40178949847286823172009-05-13T23:53:00.000+01:002009-05-13T23:53:00.000+01:00Well done comrades!
We did a stall today on bot...Well done comrades! <br /><br />We did a stall today on both "Make Greed History" and "Reinstate SSP Councillor Jim Bollan" who was suspended from West Dunbartonshire Council for 9 months for speaking out for workers rights... more infor on our branch blog www.campsiesocialists.comCampsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com