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📢MY BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER📢

🤓😀

I've been working on this for ages, and I'm very excited to share

It's full of the stories that have inspired and amazed me, and tools to help you do what they did

Oh and a foreword by ACTUAL BRIAN ENO

canburypress.com/collections/bo…
The core idea at the heart of the book is this:

We're living in a moment in time when the dominant story of society - the Consumer Story - is collapsing, and threatens to take us with it

But there is another truth: the Citizen Story is rising
This is what we @NewCitProj have been calling the #CitizenShift since 2015

We are not Subjects to be done to

Nor are we Consumers to be done for

We are Citizens, who get things done together Image
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So we @NewCitProj have just about got our heads around the immediate #COVID19 challenges - not easy for a small business reliant on client income

Now we've lifted those heads up to draw on our five years of working with our #CitizenShift framework

medium.com/new-citizenshi…
We see three possible futures from here:

Consumer - where "back to normal" is pursued

Subject - where the authoritarian surge takes hold

And Citizen - where we collectively step into the deep potential that's been emerging over the last decade and more Image
We've pulled this together because...

we're inspired and excited by the example of @kirkdemocracy @thesubath @guardian @coopuk

we're concerned by the examples of Israel Hungary et al

we believe this names a decision that lies with all of us

We hope it helps
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Love this from @Riverford

When is consumption not Consumerism?

When it’s Citizenship

#CitizenShift Image
@Riverford thanks for this. I’m on way to do a TED abt the shift from Consumer to Citizen as the story of society. This was right in front of me on the train. #GoodOmens
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.⁦@DHierlemann⁩ talks abt Conference on Future of Europe...

“Europe needs to stop selling Europe to people as consumers, and start inviting people to participate as citizens.”

👏👏👏

#CitizenShift #OECDOG Image
He cites 3 problems w Conference at present

1) no clear aim/objective of conference

2) not clear how language barriers dealt with in live deliberation

3) not clear how broader input from digital channels will be filtered - no algorithmic way so how real w volume?
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I've just published a piece called "Britain needs the Liberal Democrats, now more than ever" via @CompassOffice

Here's your obligatory spoiler/teaser/replacement* thread

(*delete according to preferred social media consumption approach)
My overarching take is that we @LibDems are the natural party of the "empowered citizen" (Paddy Ashdown's term)

And that in the aftermath of "take back control", this idea is crucial to saving British politics
My starting point is Paddy's 1989 book Citizens' Britain, which I was first pointed to by @EdwardJDavey - and in particular this quote... Image
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