Bert Russell

@bertrussell.bsky.social

Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025) Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell

Part of the conditions for these posts is you’re located/working in Latin America. There might be some interesting connections to make here between @globalvalueinquiry.bsky.social work on understandings of abundance, and those we advanced in our book (plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/)

Radical Abundance - Pluto Press

A blueprint for escaping capitalism and creating a world of true abundance

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Gabriela Cabaña@gcabana.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Desde @globalvalueinquiry.bsky.social estamos buscando investigadoras/os para nuestro nuevo grupo de investigación sobre abundance, libertad y límites igvi.org/opportunitie... para trabajar conmigo durante 4 años

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’

A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

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Ireland has the weakest local government in the EU but this is not inevitable or irreversible. Reinventing local democratic institutions to improve quality of life can be common ground for many orgs and campaign groups here.

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Bert Russell@bertrussell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today we launch our new policy briefing - Popular Asset Commissions: Building a Green Democratic Haringey. Written with @kmilb.bsky.social & @kaiheron.bsky.social for @abundance-org.bsky.social, the briefing informs Haringey Green Party’s 2026 local election manifesto. 🔗 t.co/Amk6knck6u

https://forotransiciones.org/2026/03/12/llaves-para-una-puerta-que-todavia-no-existe-cooperacion-publico-comunitaria-y-transicion-ecosocial-justa/

Llaves para una puerta que todavía no existe. Cooperación público-comunitaria y transición ecosocial justa.

Nos alegramos de poder compartir este informe en el que hemos estado trabajando el último año. El propósito de este documento ha sido construir una idea compartida, entre distintos actores, sobre lo que podemos entender por cooperación público-comunitaria. Todo ello con el objetivo de mostrar las potencialidades que encierra esta fórmula y su importancia estratégica; así como recopilar decenas de prácticas inspiradoras, activas en distintos contextos de nuestra geografía (urbanos y rurales, políticamente más favorables u hostiles, locales o intermunicipales…). Además, se ha elaborado una serie de recomendaciones para normalizar el desarrollo de este tipo de fórmulas colaborativas entre administración pública y tejidos sociales. Este informe se ha vertebrado en cuatro grandes ejes de intervención, en torno a los cuales se están dando las principales experiencias prácticas: 1) El apoyo público a las dinámicas de autoorganización ciudadana y el fortalecimiento de una esfera pública no estatal. 2) La gestión cívica de equipamientos e infraestructuras. 3) El papel de la universidad y la promoción del enfoque pedagógico vinculado al Aprendizaje Servicio. 4) El impulso de partenariados público-cooperativos y la promoción de la economía social y solidaria. De cara a elaborar este informe se ha procedido a entrevistar, individual o grupalmente, a 30 personas comprometidas con promover estas ideas e iniciativas. Entre ellas hay cargos políticos que tienen o han tenido responsabilidades de gobierno, personal técnico de las administraciones públicas en sus distintas escalas (municipal, autonómica o de la Administración General del Estado), profesorado de diferentes universidades, personas de consultoras especializadas y equipos de investigación, así como pertenecientes a distintos movimientos sociales. Además se ha realizado una revisión bibliográfica y se han organizado tres talleres participativos, dos en Madrid y uno en Barcelona, a los que han asistido 35 entidades de distintos perfiles. Acceso al documento: AQUÍ Enlace al video de la presentación: AQUÍ

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Wes Streeting released his whatsapp messages with Mandelson We've written to him asking him to also release messages with private health donors (who benefit from NHS privatisation) @goodlawproject.bsky.social found he is 60%+ funded by private healthcare weownit.org.uk/news/wes-str...

Open letter to Wes Streeting: release your messages with your private healthcare donors

The public has a right to know that health policy is not driven by quid pro quo relationships.

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BREAKING 🇬🇧🇵🇸 A British jury has refused to convict six pro-Palestine activists — who broke into an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, England to dismantle Israel’s war machine — of any of the charges levelled against them by the state.

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In his parting words to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his state visit in March 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, "Right now there are changes – the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years – and we are the ones driving these changes together"