Extinction Rebellion and Citizens' Assemblies: Introduction
Channel: Manuel Arriaga
Date: 2019-12-14

What is a Citizens' Assembly? Why is Extinction Rebellion calling for Citizens' Assemblies? And how do Citizens' Assemblies relate to the global climate emergency? 

This video is part of a Youtube playlist in which I try to address these and other related questions.

These videos are based on questions that came up when I presented these ideas at a couple of Extinction Rebellion events here in NYC during the Fall of 2019. Hopefully some folks will find them a useful introduction to the topic.

If you are interested to learn more about the potential of citizen deliberation to reform our way of doing politics, you can download a short book I wrote on the topic (for free) by visiting:

http://www.rebootdemocracy.org/book/