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Democracy When The World Is On Fire
Roiling emotions. Relief and devastation. A pinch of hope, a shake of anger, a dash of despair. A generous sprinkling of equanimity – this too shall pass, and elections are one small part of the arc of history. And a powerful flavour of gratitude. I want to start this email by paying tribute to Adam…
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Flipping The Script: Community Leads The Candidates Towards Democracy
Three candidates walk into a bar… It could be the beginning of a silly joke. But, while it was a lot of fun, it was not just serious but genuinely moving, with one of the candidates weeping tears of joy at being welcomed into a respectful conversation. (And, to be honest, it was a community…
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Tim on 4ZZZ: Living Democracy
In March 2025, the Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ spoke to Tim Hollo about his book Living Democracy. You can listen to it here.
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Lessons In Nonviolence And Democracy From Arendt To Rising Tide
Speech 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 we come together on stolen…
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Turning The Ship Around With A Rising Tide
Turning 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 economy, and of ecological wisdom.…
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Yesterday, as I sat in the rain on the road in front of Parliament House, with a cop’s knee in my back, the crowd broke into a powerful chant of: Show me what democracy looks like This is what democracy looks like! With Parliament House at our backs, where the Prime Minister had just personally…
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Kinship Is The Antidote To Scarcity
Last night, as it was becoming incontrovertible that the USA was voluntarily turning from neoliberalism to authoritarianism, about a hundred of us gathered on Zoom for what I reckon was just about the best way to process it: talking about care and kinship, responsibility and entanglement, autonomy and action, together. On a day like today,…
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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’,…
