Latest Updates
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Re-engaging
Well, I’m back! As you may recall, I stepped down as Executive Director of the Green Institute back in March in order to focus fully on my election campaign for the seat of Canberra. The board kindly kept my position vacant for the duration, while the wonderful Elissa Jenkins very ably held the fort, and…
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Ecological Ethics For The End Of The World As We Know It
Speech delivered by Tim Hollo on 24 September to Conversation at the Crossroads series “Ethics in a turbulent world”. Good evening everyone, and thanks so much, Joseph, for the kind invitation to speak with you tonight as part of this series. The theme of Ethics in a Turbulent Time, and Joseph’s challenge to me, asking…
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Protection without violence – don’t miss this
They say truth is the first casualty of war. But sexual violence follows in its dust. And they so often travel together. In South Sudan, amidst civil war, women walking to collect water and firewood have been brutally attacked at horrific rates – a dreadful tally often left unrecognised in counting the costs of war.…
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An Active Call To Peacemake
With Green Agenda, I get to curate and edit a range of essays and articles – grounded forms of writing, by people and from places, projects and communities, where transformative or prefigurative change is already at play. I feel that Tim’s latest Green Institute project The Missing Peace is doing something similar. ‘Peace and nonviolence’,…
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Resistance – Nonviolently Toppling A Dictator
Not quite 25 years ago, something extraordinary happened – a group of young students and activists launched a campaign of resistance, full of humour while deeply serious, powerfully active while entirely nonviolent, that brought down the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. As a young activist, then starting out with Greenpeace, and with eastern European heritage myself,…
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The Missing Peace: Video And Next Events
In this unstable and volatile world, with most politics assuming that violence is the path to power and security, the Greens’ commitment to peace and nonviolence is a beacon of sense and compassion and wisdom. And last Wednesday evening, we were treated to an immensely enriching and nourishing conversation between two great Greens elder states-people, Jo…
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Green Agenda: On flourishing with nature, grassroots organising, and Palestine
Here’s a selection from the latest Green Agenda issue, our archive, and what we’re reading and sharing, while we’re working on Green Agenda’s next issue, out shortly. We’re also putting together two call for papers — on forests, and on peace, non-violence and demilitarisation. So, watch out for that too. Writing from Tasmania’s Huon Valley,…
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Peace is a process; nonviolence is action
Nonviolence is a powerful, active, creative and generative form of resistance to violent systems. Every act of violence creates a more violent world. Nonviolence refuses to accept the self-perpetuating logic of the inevitability of violence, and demands of us that we cultivate space for peace-making. In this way, peace can be seen as on ongoing…
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Change Everything – Natalie Bennett on her new book on transformative Greens politics, with guest Christine Milne
What does transformative Greens policy and politics look like? Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and current Greens member of the House of Lords, has written a new book, Change Everything, examining a broad range of ideas from participatory democracy to UBI to dismantling corporate power. On 9 July 2024,…
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Elections =/= Democracy
On Tuesday evening, when Christine Milne and I chat with former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, about her new book, Change Everything, one of the things I’m looking forward to discussing is the weird and complex and misleading relationship between electoral systems and democracy. Register for the webinar here The British electoral system…
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Dutton Nukes Democratic Climate Debate
Here we go again. A decade ago, I wrote this piece in The Guardian explaining why the right keeps returning to nuclear power like a dog to a puddle of vomit. It fits their worldview: the “dominion mandate” that says God gave “man” the Earth to dominate; the belief in centralised corporate control; and the idea that…
