Democracy local articles
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Local View: Democracies depend on truth, facts, not disinformation
From the column: "If we want to save our democracy, we need to search for the facts and truth and become less accepting of disinformation."
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Sheffield local elections: Fighting on locals’ behalf – what to expect from the Community Councillors Group?
In a series of interviews with party leaders ahead of the May 2 local elections in Sheffield, Cllr Dianne Hurst from the Sheffield Community Councillor Group has told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) why she (and some of her colleagues) left the Labour Party and what’s next in – now – opposition at town hall. For a start, we met at Richmond Park in Sheffield, where Cllr Hurst wanted to talk about a mix of real local issues – the lack of housing options when homes are lying empty, and...
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Intifada, the Origin of Democracy
It’s a testament to the contradictions of our present barbarity that while the whole world recognizes that crimes against humanity, if not the crime of genocide itself, are being committed by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, the political-economic institutions of the U.S., and their dutiful servants in government, academia, entertainment, and elsewhere, More