تختهٔ آرزوها
نسخهٔ خودت فوری روی دیوار میآید؛ اگر ثبت ناشناس روشن باشد، برای دیگران پس از بازبینی انسانی. روی یادداشت بزن، یا آن را در طاقچه رها کن (۳ تا مانده).
Sound · The board of hopes
Our constitution
This is nobody's draft but yours. Twelve principles, each with a yes and a no and a country that has it now. Say yes to add one to your draft; at the end print it and pin it to the board.
Article ۱
A secular state
Religion is separate from the state; no office is held by religious writ and no law made in its name.
France, the law of 1905
Article ۲
Equal citizenship
Women and men, every faith and none, every people and language: one certificate, one right.
South Africa 1996, section 9
Article ۳
An elected head, two terms
The highest office is won by direct vote and left after two terms; no office is for life.
The United States, 22nd amendment
Article ۴
Independent judges
The court answers not to the government, and the government answers to the court; judges are appointed by judges, not by one man.
Germany, the constitutional court
Article ۵
No filter on candidates
Standing is a form; no board weighs anyone's beliefs. The only sieve is the vote.
Every free democracy
Article ۶
Free media, an unfiltered internet
Newspapers without a licence, public media answerable to parliament, and no wall between you and the network.
Estonia: internet access as a right
Article ۷
The right to assemble and strike
The street and the factory are places to speak; an assembly is announced, not permitted.
France; Sweden
Article ۸
Provincial self-government
Every province has its own assembly and budget; schools, roads and water are decided there.
Germany, Spain
Article ۹
Iran's languages at school
Persian is the shared language, and every child's mother tongue is the language of the first year.
Switzerland: four official languages
Article ۱۰
The rights of rivers and future generations
A river has legal personhood and a lawyer; someone sits at the table of law in the name of those to come.
New Zealand 2017; Wales 2015
Article ۱۱
The army under the elected government
No armed force except under the elected government, answerable to parliament; no parallel force.
Spain 1978, article 8
Article ۱۲
A referendum with the full text
The constitution itself goes to the vote, with the full text on the ballot, not a single option.
Ireland; Chile 2022
Your draft
۰ Article of ۱۲
You have not said yes to any principle yet.
This draft belongs to one visitor of Futures of Democracy, and is the text of no party or institution.
Sound · Which hope do we give wings?
Notes pinned to the board of the neighbourhood café. Write one, send three to the shelf.
There are as many hopes for the future as there are people on earth today thinking about tomorrow. This site gathers them. The board of hopes is for every visitor to write their own hope for the future. Which do we want to build the future with? Choose a hope you think matters to all of us and send it to the shelf of hopes.
Written by us
In every café and library there is a board people pin their notes to: a flat to rent, a language class, a hope. A note is public the moment it is pinned, and everyone who passes reads it. Here every note is a hope; a small tagger in your browser finds the hopes on the same topic: go to a note, and those on its topic light up.
Written by us
For discussion
In the same theme · Sound
Threads of the relationshipWhere, and how much, do you turn up?
The neighbourhood budgetTen billion tomans and your neighbourhood; what do you build?
On every channelWho makes up your mind?
The network of voicesWhat do people say, and where are you in it?
A letter to 1415What do you say to ten years from now?What can be done · Sound
Petition
On karzar.net you can sign or start a petition; the body addressed sometimes replies officially. A short text and a clear demand gather more signatures.
The neighbourhood council
NowIn Tehran the neighbourhood councils are elected, advisory and without a budget; their monthly meetings are open and the district municipality decides.
In a free IranA neighbourhood council with a share of the budget it spends itself meets in the library or the sports hall and publishes the minutes the same night. Go, sit, ask.
NGOs and professional associations
Membership of an environmental NGO or a neighbourhood charity, or of your own profession's association, starts with a form; the teachers' and pensioners' associations exist right now, at all the cost it brings them.
Next: A letter to 1415