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Our arrival to Politicking

This summer Eroles Project hosted two international residencies in Spain focusing on Deepening Citizenship and Emerging Politics. During the second residency 10 people gathered for 12 days in the rural village of Eroles to share their understanding, experience and practice of Emerging Politics. In this blog post they attempt to

Disobeying Spain

October 1st, 2017 2 am: The center of Barcelona seems as normal, though emptier than is common for a Saturday night. The terraces and bars have jovial youth sipping drinks and speaking louder than the neighbors would like. But no one is speaking Catalan. Catalans know what is coming, the

Transition Political

Written by Erik Lindberg and re-posted from resilience.org This is the third in a series of blogs. Read blogs one and two. I want to begin by recapping what I see as the two most important points I’ve made so far about the Transition Movement, its significance,

Richard Heinberg on ‘America First’.

Eight minutes into his inauguration speech, Donald Trump presented one of his key policy shifts. “America First”, he announced. And then, again, in case anyone had missed it, this time more slowly and deliberately, “America First”. He went on to embellish: “Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on

Are smoking cannabis and saving the planet mutually exclusive?

This blog has a deliberately provocative title, because I think this is something we really need to talk about. It is a question that has been in my mind after my recent trip to the ‘Education for Life’ conference in Mallorca. Psychiatrist Jose M. Fabregas gave an excellent talk which

Tony Blair, Godzilla, and the Banquet of Consequences.

In February 2003, in Dublin, I marched against the impending Iraq War alongside 100,000 other people. Similar protests took place around the world that day, including around a million people marching in London. Today, 13 years, and 250,000 violent deaths later, with millions of people displaced, we now