InstaGov:Community portal

Notes

Links of interest, about which there should probably be pages on this site or possibly on ICMS:

• wikipedia:Online deliberation
• wikipedia:Colour revolution: successful nonviolent resistance movements
• wikipedia:Committee of correspondence
• wikipedia:Symbolic violence: how existing hierarchies are maintained
• 2013-02-19 The Economy: Under New Ownership How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
• 2013-04-06 Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike "Taking over their plant was not the workers’ idea. Continental Tire proposed to sell it to them—after the union backed management into a corner so tight the owners wanted nothing more to do with it. But to get to that point workers had to wage a three-year strike and what we in the U.S. call a “comprehensive campaign.” Workers say it was not just one tactic that won the day, but a combination of relentless pressures."
• 2013-04-23 We are Players in the Game of Revolution
• 2013-05-09 Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation
• http://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100
• http://p2pfoundation.net/Building_Trust_in_P2P_Marketplaces
• http://www.alternet.org/economy/chris-hedges-explains-how-entire-regions-within-us-are-treated-exploited-colonies?paging=off
• John Green's Crash Course videos:
  • Seven Years War
  • The American Revolution

Projects

• ProCon.org: pros and cons of controversial issues -- nonpartisan
• AllOurIdeas: an "idea marketplace" -- some resemblance to liquid agenda, but simplified

See also: governance methods