Rhizome don’t put on many open courses, though we do get asked. As it happens 2 of our facilitators are at work in an open course on Consensus Decision-Making next month, courtesy of the team at Talk Action. We’ll look at the values that underpin effective consensual decision-making as well as at 2 models of […]
Stop New Nuclear are building towards a Fukushima anniversary action in March. Rhizome folk will be there to help support the process of the action. See you there? Can you download and distribute the flier?
Here’s news of an interesting event…. NCIA Assembly at the Bank of Ideas – Occupy community groups and public services: a discussion to find a new space for community and voluntary action. Tuesday December 13th, 2pm to 4pm, Room 1.05, The Bank of Ideas, 29 Sun Street (near Liverpool Street station), London Amongst other things […]
In July the Common Cause Handbook, from which the quotation below is taken, was added to the original Common Cause report (along with lots of other nice stuff on the valuesandframes.org website) “Social and environmental concern and action, it turns out, are based on more than simply access to the facts (a finding that may […]
Here’s some info about the latest event from Stop GM Gathering More Momentum: Sunday 13th November 10am – 5pm A day to refine plans against the return of genetically engineered crops at the beautiful Hawkwood Nursery in Walthamstow, one of London’s most spectacular community growing projects. For directions see here: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/contact-us/ The agenda will include: […]
Both Carl and I were busy at the Rebellious Media Conference last weekend. We facilitated the 2 participant-led sessions – a short Open Space on ‘Activism and the Media on Saturday, and the “Have Your Say” session on Sunday. Neither were heavily attended, but that’s hardly surprising given the weight of other things in the […]
We mention a few sources of case studies for nonviolent action and lo and behold we’re told about another. Tim Gee, author and activist (and reader of our blog – thanks Tim) has written Counterpower: Making Change Happen, in which he covers case studies of successful movements from India’s Independence Movement to the Arab Spring. Tim’s […]
Some interesting stuff over in New York. Good site to look at – Occupy Wall Street for an ongoing story of the occupation and resistance. Some food for your media thoughts in the week running up to the Rebellious Media Conference. And if you’re just thinking of going we’re afraid it’s sold out.
The folks at Biofuelwatch have asked us to let you know about a couple of events coming up in October. The first is a public meeting on 4th October, entitled The real cost of subsidies for biofuel and biomass electricity. The second is a protest outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change on October […]
I’m drowning in unread blog posts. My feed reader’s groaning under the weight. Nothing new there. That makes reading posts a bit like a lucky dip. When I get a moment I randomly pick something, and what do you know, tonight it’s a real gem. Over at the Interaction Institute there are musings on revolution […]
