All life and civilization depend on nature. A fundamental function of government is to secure natural territory and develop rules for allocating its use. Efforts to legitimize the sovereignty of the people (sortition) must contend with the challenge of securing territory. This will be a facilitated discussion of how we might use the neoliberal world order, the corporate/legal tools of oligarchs, and the trend towards privatization to sidestep this challenge in the name of democracy. Can we claim the Earth for everyone, one plot at a time, by aligning people's self interest with a global, sortition-controlled land trust?
Sunday, 8 December
19:00 - 20:00 UTC
20:00 CET • 2PM US Eastern • 11AM US Pacific • 6AM AEDT (day after)
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Using Sortition and Georgism to Reclaim the Earth for Everyone, One Plot at a Time
Description
Facilitator
Ian Troesoyer is an advocate for democratic sortition, land value taxation, corporate ownership reform, and intellectual property reform. He is a lottery-selected board member for Democracy Without Elections, a US-based sortition nonprofit. He is also a member of Common Ground USA, a US-based land reform nonprofit. Ian holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice and works as a nurse practitioner and epidemiologist in Idaho, USA. His advocacy is informed by his interest in promoting healthy communities and his belief in the utility of representative random samples.
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