Totnes Pound New Notes Launch: Social Fabric
Totnes local currency launches new t£1, t£5, t£10 & t£21 on May 20th. To celebrate the new notes, see why Caroline Voaden, Social Fabric, supports the Totnes Pound in 21 seconds (or there abouts!)
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#DareToDream craftivism instruction video for local organisers of Heritage Open Days 2019
This video is for local organisers to help them prepare their own craftivism workshop. More information here:
heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/unsung-stories/dare-to-dream This year, England’s largest festival of culture and heritage will celebrate its 25th anniversary, with a new arts commission focusing on those who have affected positive change and the power of gentle protest.
In 2019, Heritage Open Days will celebrate its anniversary with 25 Years of People Power. Against a backdrop of Brexit - a time of unprecedented social division and uncertainty - hundreds of events across the country will celebrate change-makers; those whose visions and dreams have brought positive developments to our society, both large and small.
Alongside festival walks, talks and openings, the Dare to Dream project will explore the power of positive visualisation in effecting change and finding solutions to the problems that surround us.
Through a series of ‘craftivism workshops’ designed by Sarah Corbett, founder of the global Craftivist Collective, participants will have an opportunity to think about the issues that matter to them, and how to be an active part of bringing positive change, both locally and globally.
The commission is the third in Heritage Open Days’ Unsung Stories strand, made possible by support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery with the aim of exploring lesser-known histories in new and innovative ways. Participants will hand-stitch their positive visions for the future onto fabric ‘dream clouds’, share their creations on social media, and display them in meaningful locations to encourage us all to be solution-seekers and change-makers.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Sarah, who embodies the gentle form of People Power that is at the heart of Heritage Open Days,” says HODs National Manager, Annabelle Thorpe. “Throughout history, real change has come from those who have thought differently, dreamed big and believed solutions are there to be found. Dare to Dream offers a chance for everyone to think about how we can all positively shape the future, and make our dreams for a fairer, happier society become reality.”
Across the Heritage Open Days festival, Sarah will lead four free workshops, launching at Dartington Hall in Totnes, where the concept for the NHS was established in the 1940s. Moving to Norwich, Manchester and Durham, each session will take inspiration from local dream-makers whose historic ideas helped to shape a new reality. Downloadable instruction packs will also enable organisers to run their own Dare to Dream workshops, enabling nationwide participation.
After the festival, insights drawn from the workshops will create a picture of our dreams and hopes for society in the next 25 years. By having a vision rather than just fixating on a problem, our brains start finding ways to turn those visions into reality” says campaigner, Sarah Corbett. “Join us and craft your creation, whilst you think deeply about what your dream for a better world will look like, and how you can be part of making it. Stitch by soothing stitch, we can help become change-makers.
Yesterday’s dreams shaped today’s reality. This September 2019, join Heritage Open Days and the Craftivist Collective to create individual dreams for a positive future.
In Transition 1.0: From oil dependence to to local resilience - English Subtitles
'In Transition' is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.
In the film you'll see stories of communities creating their own local currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food, celebrating localness, caring, sharing. You'll see neighbours sharing their land with neighbours that have none, local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, schoolchildren making news in 2030, and you'll get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action, and we think you will like it very much. It is also quite funny in places.
UoB IAS Slavery: Legacies and Remembrance - Public Forum
Bristol was a major player in the slave trade during the eighteenth century but there are scarcely any traces of this history in our city today. The importance of this abominable commerce on the fabric of our city -- from its rich multiculturalism to its Georgian elegance -- has still to be recognised. The panel will take perspectives from different parts of the world and discuss how Bristol might acknowledge, face up to and carry forward its past.
This event took place on 26 June 2014 in the Great Hall of Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. It was an Institute for Advanced Studies public panel discussion in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
Reform Act 1832 | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Reform Act 1832
00:02:20 1 Unreformed House of Commons
00:02:30 1.1 Composition
00:05:15 1.2 The franchise
00:08:21 1.2.1 Women's suffrage
00:09:40 1.3 Pocket boroughs, bribery
00:11:56 2 Movement for reform
00:12:06 2.1 Early attempts at reform
00:15:31 2.2 Aftermath of the French Revolution
00:18:27 2.3 Reform during the 1820s
00:20:31 3 Passage of the Reform Act
00:20:41 3.1 First Reform Bill
00:24:34 3.2 Second Reform Bill
00:27:02 3.3 Third Reform Bill
00:29:58 4 Results
00:30:07 4.1 Provisions
00:30:15 4.1.1 Abolition of seats
00:30:59 4.1.2 Creation of new seats
00:32:03 4.1.3 Extension of the franchise
00:33:59 4.2 Effects
00:36:05 4.3 Tenant voters
00:37:29 4.4 Limitations
00:39:17 4.5 Further reform
00:41:24 5 Assessment
00:44:25 6 See also
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The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. According to its preamble, the Act was designed to take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament. Before the reform, most members nominally represented boroughs. The number of electors in a borough varied widely, from a dozen or so up to 12,000. Frequently the selection of MPs was effectively controlled by one powerful patron: for example Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, controlled eleven boroughs. Criteria for qualification for the franchise varied greatly among boroughs, from the requirement to own land, to merely living in a house with a hearth sufficient to boil a pot.
There had been calls for reform long before 1832, but without success. The Act that finally succeeded was proposed by the Whigs, led by Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. It met with significant opposition from the Pittite factions in Parliament, who had long governed the country; opposition was especially pronounced in the House of Lords. Nevertheless, the bill was eventually passed, mainly as a result of public pressure. The Act granted seats in the House of Commons to large cities that had sprung up during the Industrial Revolution, and removed seats from the rotten boroughs: those with very small electorates and usually dominated by a wealthy patron. The Act also increased the electorate from about 400,000 to 650,000, making about one in five adult males eligible to vote.The full title is An Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales. Its formal short title and citation is Representation of the People Act 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. IV, c. 45). The Act applied only in England and Wales; the Irish Reform Act 1832 brought similar changes to Ireland. The separate Scottish Reform Act 1832 was revolutionary, enlarging the electorate by a factor of 1300% from 5000 to 65,000.
Denialist abusively permissive “classic liberals:” Milo Yiannopoulos & Sargon of Akkad
Denialist abusively permissive classic liberal “conservatives:” Milo Yiannopoulos & Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad.
Faggyfag marriage isn’t marriage because faggyfag sex is simply mutual wankery and nothing more.
Evolution is smarter than denialist leftists and denialist socially permissive libertarians also.
Leftists atheists want into our bedrooms far more than the right:
Censorship by supposed conservatives:
'Lives and families are destroyed by Tranny and Gay acceptance and promotion - LGBT abusive outliers are not equal'
'Where does social conservatism come from? From human nature.'
Open letter to Harald Illig:
May 10, 2019