Ebook {Epub PDF} Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up by Dave Meslin

From environmental activism to public space advocacy to the ongoing campaign for electoral reform, Dave Meslin has been both out on the street in marches and in the back rooms drawing up policy. With Teardown he reminds us that the future of our species doesn’t need to look like a trainwreck. That we’re capable of so much more. It’s time to raise our expectations: of the system, of each other and of .  · The activist and community organizer believes, however, that none of this is preordained. He has many ideas—simple and complex, intuitive and surprising—on how to fix our democracy. In each chapter of Teardown, Meslin briefly describes a problem in our democratic system before exploring solutions in depth, using local and international examples. He begins with how citizens are deterred Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up - Kindle edition by Meslin, Dave. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up.

A warlike parliament. Infantile legislatures. "My way or the highway" leaders. Legislation-by-lobbyist. Ignored grassroots. Unrepresentative governments (Canada has had a female PM for all of days). Toxic elections whose outcomes badly distort how we actually vote. Citizen apathy. This is Canada's democracy, argues Dave Meslin (compellingly). The activist and community organizer. Read "Teardown Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up" by Dave Meslin available from Rakuten Kobo. A handbook of democratic solutions in troubled times, from the activist the media call a "wizard," a "mastermind," "the. Dave Meslin is the author of Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up. "You failed us." These harsh words appear in a declaration written by the young leaders of the international.

From environmental activism to public space advocacy to the ongoing campaign for electoral reform, Dave Meslin has been both out on the street in marches and in the back rooms drawing up policy. With Teardown he reminds us that the future of our species doesn’t need to look like a trainwreck. That we’re capable of so much more. It’s time to raise our expectations: of the system, of each other and of ourselves. Only then can we re-imagine a new democracy, unrecognizable from today’s. From environmental activism to public space advocacy to the ongoing campaign for electoral reform, Dave Meslin has been both out on the street in marches and in the back rooms drawing up policy. With Teardown he reminds us that the future of our species doesn't need to look like a trainwreck. That we're capable of so much more. But few are as tactical and deep in the solutions they propose (or as hopeful) as Dave Meslin's new book Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up. While the book's title Teardown may prompt you to assume that the author is asking for anarchy and a total rejection of the current systems and institutions of governance, the approach he prescribes actually asks us to take apart each facet of representative democracy, clean it up and then put it back together.