Professor Martin Haase talks about the Piratenpartei Deutschland (Pirate Party Germany)

Professor Martin Haase, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Bamberg, and an active member of the Piratenpartei Deutschland (Pirate Party Germany), talks about the origins, goals, operations, and spirit of this organization, and about its use of Liquid Feedback software to create what it calls “Liquid Democracy,” recorded from Bamberg, Germany, on May 9, 2012.

JP Hollembaek talks about his Pirate Party campaign for the Massachusetts House of Representatives

JP Hollembaek, candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Middlesex (Lowell and Chelmsford), talks about his campaign and the Massachusetts Pirate Party, recorded from Lowell, Massachusetts, on May 8, 2012.

Klaus Sambor discusses the Unconditional Basic Income ECI

Klaus Sambor, coordinator of the Attac group for an unconditional basic-income (UBI) guarantee, talks about the campaign to qualify a European Citizens’ Initiative that would implement such a program in the European Union, recorded from Austria on May 6, 2012.

Jan Willem Goudriaan on the Right2Water European Citizens’ Initiative

Jan Willem Goudriaan, Deputy General Secretary, European Federation of Public Service Unions, talks about the Right2Water (www.right2water.eu) campaign to qualify a European Citizens’ Initiative to guarantee Europeans’ right to water as a public good and turn back efforts to privatize the provision of water and sanitation services, recorded from Brussels, Belgium, on May 2, 2012

Carsten Berg at Democracy International on the European Citizens’ Initiative

Carsten Berg, ECI Campaign Coordinator with Democracy International and other, related NGOs, talks about the recently-promulgated European Citizens’ Initiative, which allows a million EU citizens to propose new legislation to the European Commission, recorded from Bonn, Germany, on April 24/25, 2012.

Joonas Pekkanen talks about “Open Ministry” online initiative platform

Joonas Pekkanen talks about the origins, status, and functioning of the “Open Ministry” open source collaborative platform now being used in Finland for the creation of crowdsourced legislation, recorded from Helsinki, Finland, on April 5/6, 2012.

David Cruz Thayne discusses the issues, March 29, 2012

David Cruz Thayne, a Democratic candidate in the 26th Congressional District campaign, talks to Etopia News about immigration, education, health care, jobs and the economy, off-shore oil drilling, renewable energy, contraceptives, Israel and Iran, high-speed rail, the distribution of wealth in the U.S., the Citizens United ruling, technology and unemployment, and the possibility that U.S. Representatives should spend more time in their districts, recorded from Westlake Village, California, on March 29th, 2012.