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Why have a meeting when you can have a party?
The following blog has been written by Stephen McGinty and Shaun Burnett. They are part of AHEAD, a team of enthusiastic and motivated Community Builders working in a number of areas in Ayrshire to...
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Are You Being Served or Stifled? Paging Mr. Lucas
Are You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London’s Grace Brothers department store, as they parody the British class system but also the...
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For want of a neighbour Democracy was lost
Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for...
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One-Room School and Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty
By Cormac Russell, John McKnight and Peter Block What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now floundering economic globalization experiment? Alexis...
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Democracy: lettuce leaves and assemblies
There is a woman who lives in a neighbourhood in Chicago, who just loves lettuce. She also loves children. Each year she shows the children newly arrived at the local schools how to plant lettuce seeds...
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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’
Globalisation’s promise to avert World War III has triggered a wide range of other wars. As well as wars between Sovereign states, since Bretton Woods in 1944 where globalisation as we know it today...
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Communities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 1
In this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How we can use civic muscle and our precious collective efforts to...
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The Guillotining of Democracy: Off with their heads!
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ©Musée Carnavalet There are few who would automatically link the brutality of decapitation (even when legally sanctioned) with an act of humanity, let alone equality. Yet...
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Why Place Such a Strong and Focused Emphasis on Place-based Community Building?
Audre Lorde ©Dagmar Schultz “Without community, there can be no liberation”. Audre Lorde. The root causes of the vast majority of socio-economic and political issues are: disconnection and inequality....
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5 Ways to Organisational Wellbeing/Asset-Based Community Development Readiness
Being ready to use your organisational resources to build community, instead of institutional prowess, client numbers, or revenue, involves making visible, through action, at least five commitments: 1....
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