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Lessons In Nonviolence And Democracy From Arendt To Rising Tide
19 Feb 2025Speech to University of New England’s Peace and Justice Symposium, February 14, 2025 Good morning, everyone, and what a pleasure it is to be here with you for this stimulating and oh so timely symposium. I want to thank Marty Branagan and UNE for bringing us together, and acknowledge that…
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Turning The Ship Around With A Rising Tide
17 Dec 2024Turning a coal ship around is incredibly difficult. Turning the ship of state is even harder. It’s so much easier to stop investing our trust in the whole shebang and simply start living into being the world we need – a world of peace, of democracy, of just and regenerative…
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Making Democracy Fit For Purpose In The 21st Century
17 Dec 2024U3A Canberra Northside invited Tim to present on the challenges to democracy and possibilities for reinventing it, expanding on the themes in Living Democracy. We’ve transformed his speech into a publication for all to access here.
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Listening to Living Democracy: Audio Book
1 Dec 2023These are dark times. Could they be the darkest before the dawn? Can we turn this juggernaught around and cultivate an ecological, living democracy? You can now listen to Tim Hollo reading his book, Living Democracy, to find inspiration, ideas, and encouragement to do your own thinking. LISTEN FOR FREE…
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Seeding, Feeding and Leading Transformative Greens Politics: Green Institute Annual Report 2022/23
17 Nov 2023With our strongest ever focus on engaging and working with Greens members and the wider movement, 2022/23 was an exciting and highly successful year for the Green Institute. Despite tiny resources, with only 1½ FTE staff, we delivered a massive program of workshops and webinars, publications and podcasts, conferences and writers’ festivals, cultivating deep…
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Growing gardens on the grave of the old world – celebrating community energy
10 Feb 2025In the light of the rapid dismantling of US democratic institutions, and global certainties that rely on it, it is timely to publish this lightly edited version of a speech Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo presented to Totally Renewable Yackandandah [...] Read More... from...
Read MorePolicy fails, but gardens grow
10 Feb 2025If it has occurred to the members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture that there is nothing to eat on a dead planet, they have chosen not to present that framing to government. Instead, community-based regenerative food advocates have to continue to subvert agribusiness as a form of...
Read MoreNegotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government
20 Jan 2025Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first time a formerly insurgent political force has gained state power through...
Read MoreBike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution
7 Dec 2024On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable transport accessible to First Nations women, mothers, caregivers, and children [...] Read...
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Special briefing and discussion: defeating the Atlas Network’s extreme right astroturfing
8pm AEDT, Thursday 27 February 2025Join three special guests for this special briefing on the global network of extreme right think tanks and astroturf groups behind the anti-renewables, anti-Voice, transphobic, racist campaigns popping up in Australia as we head towards the federal election. Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 27 February 2025 Who is behind this? Where does it come from? How do we address it, defending…
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Missing Peace Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As we have been exploring through The Missing Peace, we know it works to create real, lasting, significant change, even in the direst circumstances. One of the reasons we know nonviolent protest works is because those…
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Missing Peace Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity
8pm AEST, Wednesday 6 NovemberWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 6 November 2024 View Professor Yin Paradies’ Powerpoint Presentation slides. First Nations understandings of understandings of peace and security, violence and nonviolence, relationality and entanglement, have so much to teach us as we grapple with The Missing Peace. The Green Institute is immensely privileged to bring…
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