Atheists are now the terrorists in Saudi Arabia. You couldn’t make it up
The world’s number one exporter of Wahabi jihadis considers atheists its foremost terrorism concern.
Aaron Peters
Website Aaron writes for Left Foot Forward on issues of the digital economy, social media and social innovation. He possesses graduate degrees in international public policy and intellectual history and is currently working towards a phd examining the organisational change of social movements and political parties within the context of Net 2.0 and online ‘mass collaboration’. His personal blog can be found at RadicalDandy and you can follow him of Twitter: @aaronjohnpeters.
Networks can be deliberative, accountable and consensual in decision making
Aaron Peters writes about open source consensus, and explains how networks can be deliberative, accountable and consensual in decision making and acting.
2011: The year political activism and progressive politics goes open source
New campaigning models that are de-centred mean 2011 promises to be a year of immense excitement for grassroots politics in our country, writes Aaron Peters.
Anti-cuts networks are more flexible and effective than big organisations
Yesterday marked the continuation and escalation of a campaign led by the decentralised activist network UKUncut against major UK businesses who fail to meet their full tax obligations. The first target, Vodafone, was actioned at numerous sites across the country and done with a level of organisation and effectiveness that came to many as a surprise while also eliciting genuine support.
The student movement 2010: The rise of the dissent entrepreneur
Aaron Peters is currently at a student occupation at University College London where he will be staying for as long as is permitted; even within the confines of this one microcosm of the movement the possibilities for this nascent student movement within the context of Net 2.0 are being rendered increasingly tangible.
Labour must understand the transformed politics of “anxious aspiration”
A time of ‘anxious aspiration’ that is founded upon the uncertainty of ever increasingly dynamic technological change in a world of globalised production and global culture. Here then is a space where the left can win back the middle classes in a thoroughly authentic manner – perhaps for the first time since Atlee and 1945. Familiar fairness for unfamiliar times.
Post-Browne, Labour must strive harder for inter-generational justice
If it is David Willetts who identified inter-generational justice as a profound area of public policy interest, it must be Labour who gains from such insights.
Consumers charged for copyright infringement
The Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills this week concluded its consultation on how to pay for the enforcement elements of the new the Digital Economy Act (DEA).
Debate rages over the ‘unavoidable’ budget
The consistently repeated dictum from the Treasury and government front benches over the last several weeks is that the coalition’s June budget was a product of necessity rather than a consequence of ideology.
Britain on the slow road to broadband
The OECD yesterday released a tranche of statistics on broadband penetration in member countries as of the end of 2009