Political Communication

If It Works For Greenpeace, why not copy them A year ago I met a senior Greenpeace staffer and a victory reception for the Common Fisheries Policy and I asked them what Greenpeace did that made so many of their campaigns win? The staffer explained two things to me that amounted to using (1) Value … Read more

For work my colleague, Sophie Norman and I,  presented some lessons learned from the work work on fisheries at Dod’s European Public Action Day. You can find a copy of the talk here. [spiderpowa-pdf src=”https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/epadtalk1.pdf”]epadtalk   Telepathy does not work. The most effective way to persuade people is to go and speak to them. If … Read more

Brazil’s Parliament has just voted to ban secret voting by Brazil’s Members of Parliament. The BBC reported that the public became appalled at the wide spread secrecy of voting in Brazil’s Parliament. The public took to the streets in mass demonstrations again the widespread political corruption. One of their demands was to end secret voting … Read more

Telepathy Does Not Work The one thing I know is that telepathy does not work. It may work for rats.   But, it does not with Regulators, Politicians, and journalists. If you want to persuade regulators, politicians, the press, and indeed the public, there really is only one way to do, and that is going out … Read more