| Liverpool response to the multidimensional crisis
Creative Liverpool Cluster aims to build a direct participatory democracy, more sustainable and ethical socio-economic environment. As member of the creative family in Liverpool, we would like to hear your opinion on what we believe to be a collaborative answer to the multidimensional crisis that defines our time.
Please help us disseminating this survey to your social and professional network. Many thanks |
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| 1. What is your political orientation? |
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| 2. Did you take part in the last local election? |
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| 3. Are you taking part in the European elections? |
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| 4. With a turnout of less then 30% in the last local election, are you questioning the legitimacy of the City Council? |
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| 5. The latest figures show that the overall membership in an all parties combined doesn’t exceed half a million; do you think that the representative democracy is working well? |
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| 6. Whith the lattest MPs expenses scandal, do you think that politics has to reinvent itself to regain people's trust? |
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| 7. How do you assess the direct action movements such as the environmental, antiwar, civil rights, etc.? |
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| 8. Direct Democracy is a political theory that (1) gives an equal distribution of political power among all citizens and (2) where all the decisions are taken by the citizen body collectively and without representation (3) The citizen body of a constituency consists of all residents beyond a certain age of maturity and irrespective of their gender, race, ethnic or cultural identity.
How strongly do you agree with those principles? |
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| 9. We propose the creation of a City Parliament that would have the following objectives: (1) Reclaiming the economic power away from the market economy and directly into the hands of the local communities (2) The creation of a democratic majority from below and beyond party politics (3) Inject fresh vitality into the city's issues debates (3) spread good policy ideas (4) Build broad coalitions to implement those ideas. Do you think that the time is right for the creation of such a parliament? |
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| 10. In your opinion, what are the reasons of the current financial crisis? |
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| 11. In the last THREE MONTHS has your financial situation (access to credit and finance, cash flow): |
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| 12.In case you are a social enterprise - do you think that during the recession, the social or environmental need that you address will: |
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| 13. what financial problems are you experiencing?
(Please select all that apply) |
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| 14. What action are you taking or planning to take because of the recession?
(Please select all that apply) |
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| 15. Sustainable banking has accelerated rapidly as the financial crisis has taken hold and it seem more crisis-resistant than the mainstream banking.. Ethical and sustainable banking is interest-free, transparent, owned and operated by the local community, tackle social injustice and exclusion and facilitate social change through investment. If such bank is to be created in Liverpool, will you: |
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| 16. Money is an agreement within the community to use something as means of exchange. The complementary currency is used in many cities around the world (Calgary Dollar, Hong Kong Time Coupon, etc.), it is democratically managed by its users to prevent the financial meltdown by outer agents, promotes a fair distribution of wealth, helps tackling the unemployment and transforms the volunteering work into paid job . If, based on these priniciples, a Liverpool local currency is to introduced. Will you |
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| 17. What is your main source of information? |
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| 18. Do you think that there is a concentration of power in the mass media (TV-Radio-Newspaper) that can be a danger to your right of free and fair information? |
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| 19. Do you think that the alternative non mainstream media has to be supported ? |
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| 20. The cutting edge technology permits to create and stream content from portable devices with no particular technical knowledge.
Our aim is to harness such technology to create a community oriented Internet TV channel, content of which will be created by the community members. Will you be interested in being a content creator? |
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| 21. How successful law, policy makers and law enforcement agencies have succeeded in tackling the city problems (drugs, crime, ASBOS, racism and exclusion..).? |
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| 22. Do you think that a collaborative response at the grass root level can better succeed in addressing those social problems? |
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| 23. ‘Land Trust’ is a new mechanism set by the government to allow a democratic ownership of land by the local community that is responsible for planning and delivering redevelopment schemes. Will you |
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| 24. Please tell us about your profile
(Please select all that apply) |
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| 25. Which of the following apply to Liverpool during this period of multidimensional crisis? |
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| 26. We are setting up a Development Trust for the Creative community of Liverpool that aims to implement an Inclusive Democracy via the projects introduced in this survey. Will you |
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| 27. If you would like to be a founding member of Creative Liverpool Development Trust, please type your contact details |
| You have to be Liverpool based individual or organisation |
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| 28. If you would like to be kept informed about the development of the Creative Liverpool Cluster initiative, please type your email address
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