We are the system. We can change. Civic participation and co-creation on the rise.

WE ARE THE SYSTEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0mRyq8wlE&app=desktop

Birgitta, a poetician and a pirate, shares her view on the future of democracy, in which the people are the motor of politics and progress, not institutions.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a poetician for the Pirate Party in the Icelandic parliament. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, and had the honor to guest edit the January edition 2015 of the New Internationalist titled Democracy in the Digital era. She firmly believes individuals can change the world.

SO THEN WHAT MUST WE DO - THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT with Gar Alperovitz

https://youtu.be/72VyldQcNgk

http://youtu.be/P1Ql87-Y620

Author and broadcaster Laura Flanders tackles the tough issues on this refreshingly invigorating news/talk show. In this week's program Flanders talks with Gar Alperovitz, professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and author of numerous books, the most recent of which is "What then must we do - straight talk about the next American revolution", on the movement for a new economy. With the recurring crises, the notion that we need a different economic system is beginning to gain support outside the traditional left. Alperovitz discusses the current fight-back and preliminary moves toward a democratization of the ownership of capital. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/web/telesur/#!en/video/laura-flanders-show-295441