How to Save Democracy
How to Save Democracy
Podcast Description
Democracy is in trouble. Around the world, trust is breaking down, systems are creaking, and people are walking away. But we still believe in it. Not as something we have, but as something we do.
How To Save Democracy is a podcast about repairing our relationship with democracy, hosted by Omezzine Khelifa and Jon Alexander, with producer Jo Barratt. We hold space for the hard conversations — the ones we all know we need to have.
We’re starting with four pilot episodes — a Season Zero. But this is just the beginning. if you want more, we need your help. Sign up, spread the word, and if you can, support us. Let’s rebuild democracy together.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes including civic engagement, political reform, and participatory democracy, with specific episodes like 'Citizen is a Verb' emphasizing the active role of citizens and 'Facing the Menace' addressing the current challenges facing democracies worldwide. It delves into stories of individuals reimagining democratic practices and the historical context of democratic movements.
Democracy is in trouble. Around the world, trust is breaking down, systems are creaking, and people are walking away. But we still believe in it. Not as something we have, but as something we do.
How To Save Democracy is a podcast about repairing our relationship with democracy, hosted by Omezzine Khelifa and Jon Alexander, with producer Jo Barratt. We hold space for the hard conversations — the ones we all know we need to have.
We’d love to know what you think when you’ve had a listen. If you want more, we need your help. Sign up, spread the word, and if you can, support us. Let’s rebuild democracy together.
In April this year, Jon was invited to help launch a new community-centre-cum-democracy-hub in the city of Stavanger, Norway, with the brilliant name of The House Of Wonder And Disagreement – and of a world-first project to create a standing citizens’ assembly as part of a city’s governance from outside of government…
As part of the launch, Jon hosted a conversation with Jan Inge Reilstad of KÅKÅ, the organisation running the project, and leading Norwegian journalist Hilde Sandvik, to find out more – and ask whether democracy needs saving everywhere, even in the Nordics.
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