Dutch member-based broadcaster MAX airs mini Citizens' Assembly series from the town of Woerden on public news station NPO Radio 1 in run-up to next week's municipal elections #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @omroepmax.bsky.social
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Historian and TV-personality Van Rossem publishes interview with leading Dutch sortition advocate Ms. Eva Rovers | In zijn tijdschrift spreekt Van Rossem met cultuurhistoricus en directeur van Bureau Burgerberaad Eva Rovers over het nut van burgerberaden voor de democratie. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
Interview with author and leading Dutch sortition advocate Eva Rovers in today's financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. Among the topics discussed: a Third Chamber in parliament, with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @fd.nl
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Dutch historian/TV-personality Maarten van Rossem, usually very negative about voters, is remarkably positive about citizens' assemblies | Van Rossem pessimistisch over verkiezingen, maar positief over burgerberaden #SortitionNL @maartenpodcast.bsky.social
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Dutch MP Suzanne Kröger (green/social-democrat) fears 'Biden scenario' and advocates for citizens' assemblies. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
Het degenereren van burgerberaden: eerst zelfaanmelding en dan pas loten. Niet doen! | It's the completely wrong way of doing a citizens' assembly: apply first, lottery later. This time it's the Dutch province of Drenthe that doesn't get it. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
The Wikipedia-inspired podcast 'Never knew about this', made by Dutch software developer @teund.bsky.social, devoted an episode to Lottocracy. | Podcast 'Nooit Geweten' aflevering #120: over loting (16 minuten) #SortitionNL #GetLucky
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Former Philosopher Laureate of the Netherlands @daanroovers.bsky.social yesterday criticized elections, and advocated for sortition, in Huizinga Lecture at Leiden University. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #GetLucky
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Dutch Climate Assembly presents its 13 recommentations to the government and parliament. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #Getlucky
Today in the left-of-center @volkskrant.nl — one of the leading Dutch newspapers — columnist @marcialuyten.bsky.social describes the fall of political parties, and calls for Citizens' Assemblies. #GetLucky #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL
Two days before the general election, one of the leading Dutch newspapers NRC publishes interview with Hélène Landemore on democracy, sortition and citizens' assemblies. Landemore has started working at Leiden University. #SortitionNL @landemore.bsky.social @nrc.nl
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Just heard a commercial for Eva Rovers' new book being broadcast on Dutch public news station NPO Radio 1; in the commercial she voices support for a Third Chamber with citizens *drafted by lot*. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL #TK2025
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Two calls for an additional, lottery-based house of parliament in leading Dutch newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, as the new book by Eva Rovers advocating such a Third Chamber hits the shelves. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL
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Hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht Wim Voermans zal op do.-avond 18 sep in Tilburg een pleidooi houden voor het permanente burgerberaad. Gratis toegangstickets | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Voermans will advocate permanent Citizens Assembly in city of Tilburg. #SortitionNL
Leading Dutch advocate for Citizens' Assemblies Eva Rovers publishes article in online Dutch newspaper De Correspondent. Included: a map showing all permanent local and regional councils in Europe with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL
Hier het hele interview met David Van Reybrouck in Buitenhof. | 'Democracy in Europe today is a procession of completely worn-out cars' #SortitionNL
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Today David Van Reybrouck was interviewed on national Dutch public TV. Very critical of the current system. News: city of Amersfoort is considering setting up a permanent Citizens' Council. | Fragment begint op 50:29 (12 minuten) #SortitionNL
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Today a delegation of the Dutch Climate Assembly paid a visit to the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber, the 'House of Representatives'), and had a chat with MPs about participating in the assembly. The official recommendations will be handed over in September. #SortitionNL #NBK
Main Dutch centrist-liberal newspaper NRC publishes high-quality discussion between David Van Reybrouck and opposing Belgian journalist Joël De Ceulaer on Against Elections, sortition, and Citizens' Assemblies. #SortitionNL @nrcnl.bsky.social
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In the province of North-Holland big-business oriented VVD, right-of-center christian-democrat CDA and liberal-democrat pan-European Volt abolish referenda and opt for Citizens' Assemblies | VVD, CDA en Volt N-Holland scharen zich achter burgerberaden #SortitionNL
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Dutch public-TV evening news reports on the School Assembly on a Dutch vocational school — on the use of mobile phones — but fails to mention that the students and teachers were selected by lot. [at 18m58s] #SortitionNL @nieuws.nos.nl
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While the Dutch National Climate Assembly is still underway, another government-initiated national Citizens' Assembly has been announced, by the Justice Department: on the role of social media in public unrest. | Nieuwe burgerdialoog op komst. #SortitionNL
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Mrs. Eva Rovers, the Netherlands' driving force behind Citizens' Assemblies and sortition, interviewed today in one of the main Dutch newspapers: the left-of-center Volkskrant | interview met Eva Rovers in de @volkskrant.nl. #SortitionNL
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Belgian author/historian David Van Reybrouck interviewed by the Dutch financial newspaper @fd.nl. Against Elections is mentioned, as are sortition and the East-Belgian Citizens' Council. | Interview met Denker der Nederlanden David Van Reybrouck in het FD. #SortitionNL
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Author of 'Against Elections' (and other highly regarded books, for example on Belgian, Dutch, and worldwide colonial history) David Van Reybrouck has been chosen to become the new 'National Dutch Thinker' by Dutch philosophers' foundation. #SortitionNL
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Left-of-center Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant publishes column defending the National Climate Assembly, and advocating for Citizens' Assemblies in general. | Pleidooi voor burgerberaden in de Volkskrant. #SortitionNL
Farmers'/rural party BBB ('Farmer-Citizen Movement'), one of the parties supporting the unstable right-wing four-party coalition, calls for putting an end to the national Dutch Citizens' Assembly on Climate. #SortitionNL
Excellent article advocating for sortition in the Amsterdam-based newspaper Het Parool — with a mention of David Van Reybrouck's book Against Elections. #SortitionNL @parool.nl
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Today in 1953 part of the Netherlands was flooded. 1836 people died. The disaster is usually attributed to the exceptional storm, but elected politicians had ignored hydraulic engineer Johan van Veen's repeated warnings that the dikes were too weak. #SortitionNL
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