At a time when global affairs seem to be becoming ever more intimately bound up with all of our lives, the masterful Cold War, from Oscar winning Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, explores the effects of geopolitics on the freedom of human hearts; how music and art transcend circumstance; and the …
Swap My Vote is now open for vote swapping in the UK General election, on the 12th December 2019 You can read more about the platform, and see press and media coverage about it on our page about it here: forwarddemocracy.com/swapmyvote You can also read about updates we’ve made to …
My friends and family from the rest of the EU can’t vote in this election, but you can. Use your voice!
How can technology help support better mental health? Instead of building spaces that breed toxic behaviour like trolling and bullying, are there ways to use or design technology that instead encourage the values we want? Has the much vaunted decentralisation of access to information been delivered, and how much has it …
We’ve released another version of our WhatsApp tool that helps spread a pro-democracy message through our social graph on that network – this time to help get out the vote for the EU elections. The message includes simple basic information about voting: opening times and location of polling stations, and a link …
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015, Dir. Holly Morris, Anne Bogart, 71 mins) is this month’s curated Freedom Film Club film. In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor a community of old women cling to their ancestral homeland. While their neighbours have long since fled and their husbands gradually died …
We have relaunched Save our Future, with messages in 13 new European languages, providing a simple way to send a message to European friends and groups on WhatsApp, helping them to register to vote, in just 2 minutes ⏱ It takes just one form to register, and all three steps are …
Persepolis is this month’s curated Freedom Film Club film The story of this animated film follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. Based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, It was written and directed by Satrapi in …
