Extinction Rebellion’s third demand is that government must create and be directed by the decisions of a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological justice.

Decades of inadequate political action have led to a climate and ecological emergency that poses an unprecedented existential threat to humanity and all life on Earth — “politics as usual” will not meet the challenge we face.

To learn more read “Trust the People: The Case for a Citywide Citizens’ Assembly on Climate & Ecological Justice” written by our very own Citizens’ Assembly working group.

Resources

Videos

• Citizens’ Assembly: Democracy That Works by Extinction Rebellion NYC

• Democratic Innovations by Professor Graham Smith

• The Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care by Involve

• The Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit by the Electoral Reform Society

Books

• Trust The People: The Case for a Citywide Citizen’s Assembly on Climate & Ecological Justice by Extinction Rebellion NYC

• Rebooting Democracy: A Citizens’ Guide to Reinventing Politics by Manuel Arriaga (available to order)

• The End of Politicians: Time for a Real Democracy by Brett Hennig (available to order)

• Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation by Graham Smith (available to download)

• When citizens decide: Lessons from citizen assemblies on electoral reform by Patrick Fournier, Henk Van Der Kolk, R. Kenneth Carty, André Blais, Jonathan Rose (available to download)

Articles

• A citizens’ assembly on climate change: how would it work? by Sarah Allan

• Beyond the ballot: How citizens can lead the climate change conversation by Pete Bryant and Dr Rebecca Willis

• Citizens’ Assemblies, Citizens’ Juries and Climate Change by Pete Bryant

Reports

• Citizens’ Assemblies: Guide to Democracy that Works by Marcin Gerwin

• Evidence vs Democracy: How ‘mini-publics’ can traverse the gap between citizens, experts, and evidence by Jonathan Breckon, Anna Hopkins, Ben Rickey (Alliance for Useful Evidence)

• Democracy Matters: Lessons from the 2015 Citizens’ Assemblies on English Devolution by Matthew Flinders, Katie Ghose, Will Jennings,  Edward Molloy, Brenton Prosser, Alan Renwick, Graham Smith, Paolo Spada

• Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day by Terrill G. Bouricius

Websites

• Participedia

• Democracy R&D

• Involve

• The Democracy Society

• People’s Knowledge

• Citizens’ Juries

• Shared Future

• BritainThinks

Podcasts

• Citizens’ assembly webinar by Extinction Rebellion

• Can a citizens’ assembly tackle the climate emergency? By ResPossCast

• Citizens’ assembly podcast by Extinction Rebellion

• Designing & delivering deliberative mini-publics in the United

• Kingdom with Professor Graham Smith from Westminster University by Real Democracy

• Legislature by Lots with John Gastil by Real Democracy

• We need to talk about climate with Caroline Lucas and David Runciman  by RSA

• Interviews of members of a citizens’ assembly in Ireland by We The Citizens

• Democracy is like a garden, you need to always tend it, it is never done by Tend it like a Garden

• The Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change by RTÉ

• Lecture by Justice Mary Laffoy, Chair of The Citizens’ Assembly by RTÉ