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I just went to an interesting talk on ‘active democracy’ by this excellent human who is on a speaking tour of New Zealand at the mo.
Tour details here > http://www.theawarenessparty.com/?page_id=3103

If you can’t make it along, here’s an interview he did with Kim Hill on Saturday:

“Top economists are now saying Iceland is showing the way: While many places have bailed out the bankers and made the public pay the price, Iceland let the banks go bust and actually expanded its social safety net.

Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz notes: “What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system.”

On Oct. 11, 2008, five days after Iceland’s financial crash, Hörður Torfason planted himself outside the parliament building in Reykjavik and started putting questions to the people who passed by. Every day for a week he stood in the same spot and asked the people two questions. The first, “Do you know what has happened in this country?” The second, “Do you have any ideas about what we can do about it?”

By gauging opinion on the streets, he devised several demands which reflected the people’s immediate wishes and ultimately resulted in: 1. Resignation of the whole government. 2. Nationalization of the bank. 3. Referendum so that the people can make economic decisions. 4. Incarcerating the responsible parties. 5. Rewriting of the constitution by its people via Twitter and Facebook etc

All of this was accomplished peacefully.”

Further info > ‘How to Beat the Banksters’