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Common Lot videos

“The Common Lot” Part One (40:15) “The Common Lot” Part Two (40:20) 4-minute short

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Bugling for Sortitional Selection

Bugling for Sortitional Selection

https://vimeo.com/179787461 From ship to baseball to random selection!

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Videos from Common Lot Productions

Video was made in 2016. Still valid, though a step-by-step is probably necessary.

https://vimeo.com/180312570 “Making Democracy Real — The argument for sortition (3 minutes)

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The Common Lot: Take Off

The Common Lot: Take Off

These are the first three chapters of a 225 page novel about what a sortitionally-chosen federal Citizen Legislature in the U.S.A. might look like. It is as much a character study as a political investigation. Hoping for feedback and discussion on the blog of https://commonlot.wordpress.com/ More comment to follow. chapt-1-3-turk-cathyDownload

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Support advocacy for a "Government BY the People"

Support advocacy for a “Government BY the People”

Summary of the magico-realist screenplay version of The Common Lot A band of outcasts magically struggles against the American political powers-that-be to create a national legislature based on the ultimate evolutionary stage of democracy, sortition, as used in the first Athenian democracy. Call it “Monty Python” meets “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. Synopsis of the Magico-Realist Version The…

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Professor Donald Kraybill on the Amish use of sortition

Professor Donald Kraybill on the Amish use of sortition

http://vimeo.com/25005520 Professor Donald Kraybill on Amish use of sortition (4 min 40 sec) from David Grant on Vimeo.

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List from Conall Boyle

List from Conall Boyle

A list of many different uses of allotment from ancient times until present. Not only about the political use of allotment. List from Conall BoyleDownload

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Political use of sortition from Wikipedia

Political use of sortition from Wikipedia

Examples from ancient to modern excerpted from Wikipedia (September 2011) From Wikipedia ‘sortition’: Examples HistoricalThe Athenian democracy made much use of sortition, with nearly all government offices filled by lottery rather than by election.The Doge of Venice was appointed by a lengthy procedure using alternating rounds of sortition and election.The Signoria of Florence and other…

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Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics and Change

Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics and Change

The challenges of the twenty-first century are of an unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care—all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease if they were occurring on a much smaller scale. But with a huge global population and inextricable connections between the issues, our old tools for change look increasingly…

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Reading list from Terry Bouricius:

Reading list from Terry Bouricius:

Here is my reading list. I haven’t read all of them yet, but most of them. Manin’s book is good…primarily the historic underpinnings of the American choice in the Constitution of election instead of sortition.· Sortition: Theory and Practice, edited by Oliver Dowlen and Gil Delannoi (2010). A collection of academic papers from a Paris conference.· When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and…

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Make it happen

Common Lot Productions creates print and video materials which educate about, and advocate for, the next step for democracy. Policy-making bodies, from local to national, should be composed of willing and able citizens proportional to the population they serve. The use of sortition, random selection, is the only way to insure this. In order for Common Lot Productions to continue, we must…

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Mission Statement

The Mission The Common Lot promotes democracy around the globe by advocating the use of demarchy for electing governing representatives. The Vision The vision is, in some ways, the more important part of the process. It must describe in relative detail our vision of the world as it could be, define the scope of tactics that we will employ to achieve that vision, and outline the membership of…

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Categorizing Activities

People at any given moment can be divided into the front line and everyone else. We must have activities to support both. Some ideas for the front lines: Pass out materialsConversational Outings (where people aggressively seek to engage people in conversation.Become increasingly involved, by becoming a citizen, a council member, etc.Pass on the site to others who you think might be…

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The Common Lot: Home

The Common Lot: Home

For years, American citizens across the political spectrum have cried out for change in Washington, and for years nothing has really changed about the way governments have operated. Our elected officials are ever more beholden to special interests and pockets of wealth than to an American democracy of, by, and for the people. The Common Lot, the most recent film by Common Lot Productions, is a…

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The Common Lot Movie

The Common Lot Movie

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Why random selection of legislators is necessary for true representative democracy

Why random selection of legislators is necessary for true representative democracy

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Then and Now and What's Ahead

Then and Now and What’s Ahead

Then and Now and What’s AheadAn “Un-Common” InterviewWith Sortitionist David GrantbyA Younger ManDecember 2030Now that the Citizen Chamber has completed the second year of its allotted trialperiod of twelve, one of the initial instigators of the sortitional method – what we oncecalled ‘random selection’ – has agreed to a series of short interviews to reflect upon howwe got here and where we might…

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