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Month: March 2019
Public ownership is a better term than nationalisation.
One reason being that we should think of public ownership at the local level, as well as the national.
https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0
I made a little embed handler for WordPress so you can just paste a link to videos on invidio.us and have the embed pulled in automatically to your post. You could easily just add the iframe in manually each time you post a video, too. Either way – no youtube links.
https://gist.github.com/ngm/868e7ae1617fd41a185eddc4599681f0
Really nice account of someone feeling a lot better, in the face of universal credit and housing issues, after coming to a Restart Party (community repair events that we run), getting something fixed, and feeling involved in the community.
https://therestartproject.org/community/hope-in-the-dark-an-account-from-a-restart-party/
Proud to be part of Restart.
Really interesting to learn that the NHS was part inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Medical_Aid_Society).
It was a mutual society providing health care free at the point of use in South Wales. Nye Bevan, who spearheaded the foundation of the NHS, was from Tredegar.
h/t NEF podcast on public ownership (https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0)
When I ditched the big social media networks I intended to use email as a way to keep up with friends and family. But my email right now is a dumpster fire of pointless mailshots and administrata. I can definitely tidy it up but also thinking email genuinely isn’t good for maintaining social ties? Was it ever?