Petitions, citizens’ initiatives, transparency tools, voting guides and local participation.
Transparency sites show how your MP voted and what they said in parliament, and voting guides compare party programmes before an election. A petition or a citizens’ initiative can put a local subject on the council’s agenda.
Énergie Partagée lets savers in France invest in wind farms, solar roofs, small hydro plants, wood-fired heating and biogas units owned and run by local residents and councils. It is both a movement…
Alternative to savings products that finance big energy groups and funds you know nothing about
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ACORN is a community and tenants’ union in England and Wales whose members act together against bad landlords, to get repairs done, deposits returned and evictions stopped, for a membership fee based…
Alternative to facing a landlord or letting agent alone
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The FSGT is a French multisport federation founded in 1934, with about 4,200 self-managed clubs, 200,000 people taking part and around a hundred sports, built on the idea that everyone should have…
Alternative to expensive gym chains and commercial sports clubs
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The Ramblers is a British walking charity whose roughly 485 local groups lead tens of thousands of walks a year across England, Scotland and Wales, and which campaigns to protect public footpaths and…
Alternative to paid guided walks and walking holidays
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Datan is a free website that shows how each member of the French National Assembly and each parliamentary group votes, from the Assembly’s own open data. A reader can check an MP’s actual votes on…
Alternative to what MPs and parties say about their own votes
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abgeordnetenwatch.de is a German website where anyone can put a question to a member of parliament in public and read the answer. It also shows how each member voted in important roll-call votes and…
Alternative to political news shaped by spin and party advertising, and politicians who are hard to reach
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NosParlementaires is a free website that tracks the work of the 577 French MPs and 348 senators: their votes, amendments, written and oral questions, bills, reports and declared interests. It is…
Alternative to what MPs, senators and parties say about their own work in parliament
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