Grassroots democracy


NSW election: authenticity and re-engaging the grassroots

At a time when Labor has discovered the need to reconnect with voters, one organisation is using grassroots activism techniques honed in the US

The best climate change campaign? Grassroots, of course.

Eco-warrior Franny Armstrong knows how to harness people power, with her film The Age of Stupid financed by crowd funding and her 10:10 carbon emissions campaign getting support from The Guardian.

Sacramento, California: phone calls and cardboard cut outs

The Republican campaigns we visited were noticeably more subdued, but that’s hardly surprising in a state where the Democrats have held the majority in the state legislature for years, writes Ebony Bennett.

US 08: Hillary’s campaign is still weak

The New Hampshire win saves Clinton’s bacon, but only because she didn’t lose, writes Guy Rundle.

US 08: Hillary Agonistes

Hillary Clinton has been ravaged by nature’s curse on women, and aged suddenly. Whatever hamlet she was in when her face fell, you would have heard it half a state away. The woman who looked the essence of vitality as First Lady now looks tired even when she’s not, writes Guy Rundle.