Direct Democracy Today

Independent Massachussetts Senatorial candidate Joshua Ford joins Stephanie Piddock & Chris Karis to discuss his thoughts on Direct Democracy and his campaign challenging Democrat Elizabeth Warren.

Alix Tate of The Flux Party USA joins Stephanie Piddock, Nick Greco and Tony Brasher to discuss Direct Democracy.

David Frank joins us to discuss Direct Democracy

About Adam Eichen:

 

Adam Eichen

Adam Eichen, Small Planet Democracy Fellow, is a writer, researcher, and organizer, working to build a democracy that represents and empowers all voices in society. He recently spent a year as a Maguire Fellow researching comparative campaign finance policy at the French research institute Sciences Po, and, in April 2016, he served as deputy communications director for Democracy Spring, a historic national mobilization for campaign finance and voting rights reform. Since 2015, he has sat on the Democracy Matters Board of Directors.

Adam received his B.A. from Vassar College with general and departmental honors in Political Science and French. Over the past several years, his research has focused on campaign finance, comparative election policy, and social movement theory. His articles have appeared in Salon, Huffington Post, Billmoyers.com, and Common Dreams.

Adam began collaborating with Frances Moore Lappé at the International IDEA Global Conference on Money in Politics in September 2015. Since then, the two have been working to develop new ways to think and write about campaign finance reform and the democracy movement more broadly.

Patrick Paquette joins Stephanie Piddock & Nick Greco to discuss his book, The Registry Money System

Brian Charlebois joins Stephanie Piddock & Nick Greco to discuss the numerous distractions employed by the media to keep us from unifying.

Roundtable discussion, Today in Direct Democracy. Finnish Direct Democracy candidate Pedro Aibeo Joins Stephanie Piddock, NIck Greco & Chris Karis to talk about next week's election.

We welcome back Pat Greene, leader of Direct Democracy Ireland, Tony Brasher of Lawgen.org, Brian Charlebois of Upinion and our own Nick Greco will debate whether local Direct Democracy or world-wide Direct Democracy should be the focus.

With Brexit inevitable, will Ireland unite? Join is as Stephanie Piddock & Nick Greco talk Irish politics & Direct Democracy with Pat Greene of the Direct Democracy Ireland Party.

Stephanie Piddock & Tony Brasher of Lawgen.og discuss the future of Direct Democracy.