2015 Constitutionalists - website and charter Launch of the party - under the Ankerwyke yew tree at Runnymede, 5th November 2015 (5 mins) Non hierarchical subsidiarity - Peter Challen and Ray Sheath of 2015 Constitutionalists UK explain part of clause 8 of the 2015 Constitutionalists Charter (4 mins)
Climate Change
Mothers of Invention - Podcast about the women driving powerful solutions to climate change. Hosted by Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins. Mothers of Invention: Episode 1 - Women successfully taking their countries to court over broken climate change promises.
In 2016, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Khan, a Bangladeshi-Australian lawyer, is in the studio to talk new legal strategies for climate action. Her and her partners are currently suing not one, but six governments around the world for failing to protect their citizens. Then across to the US, where it’s the next generation who are rising to take Trump to court. Mothers of Invention: Episode 2 - The White an Stole the Weather
Yvette Abrahams (South Africa) Yvette Abrahams has worked across climate justice, gender rights, food security, economics, indigenous plant research. Her activism began in the anti-apartheid struggle in her native South Africa.
May Boeve (US) May Boeve is the Executive Director of 350.org, an international movement using online campaigns, grassroots organising and mass public actions to oppose fossil fuel projects, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all.
Tara Houska (First Nation, US) Tara Houska, Ojibwe from Couchiching First Nation, is an attorney and National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth Mothers of Invention: Episode 3 - Taking Over: women who are helping us consciously-uncouple from our toxic relationship with single-use plastic, a material created to be used for mere minutes but designed to last for thousands of years.
Judi Wakhungu and Alice Kaudia
Kenyan politicians who created global headlines when they unleashed up to $38,000 USD fines for anyone found using, making or distributing plastic bags.
Chelsea Briganti American self-taught materials engineer and entrepreneur about to unleash 55bn edible straws onto the world.
Rachelle Strauss British founder of #ZeroWasteWeek - a global online campaign against household waste born from one family kitchen.
Siân Sutherland British co-founder of A Plastic Planet and creator of the world’s first fully-functioning plastic-free supermarket aisle in Amsterdam.
Katharine Wilkinson Lead writer of ‘the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming’, Project Drawdown. Mothers of Invention: Episode 4 - Under the Weather: the impact of climate change on public health.
Stella Hartinger - Lima, Peru Doctor and researcher exploring the global health impacts of climate change and fossil fuel pollution. Contributor to the Lancet Countdown report. lancetcountdown.org/the-report/
Sarra Tekola - Phoenix, Arizona Black Lives Matter activist, scientist and academic working on a PhD in Sustainability at Arizona State University. Co-founder of Women of Color Speak Out. @wocspeakout
Siwatu Salama-Ra - Detroit, Michigan Climate justice activist. Co-Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, building community power through environmental justice education, youth development, and collaborative relationship building. Learn about the campaign to free her from prison at freesiwatu.org
Anne Poehlina - Kimberley, Western Australia Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian and academic working to promote new economy opportunities and green collar jobs for Indigenous people.