About this blog
Welcome to the new addition in the openDemocracy blogs family: the oDagenda.
This blog presents the news and issues that sparked a debate during our daily editorial meetings: what made us think, laugh or even argue about. I will also introduce the upcoming topics which will be treated on the openDemocracy homepage in our main articles – and try to give you a preview of what we want to commission in the future.
oD’s editors and contributors might join the fun from time to time to write about global politics- that’s why we set tabs that direct you to their own page within this blog. Of course it goes without saying that all readers (yes, you) are welcome to post comments, or alternatively drop me a line (odagenda at opendemocracy dot net) with suggestions, thoughts or even hate mail.
About the authors
Jessica Reed joined openDemocracy during spring 2006. She holds a degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Rennes, and previously interned for the Vancouver International Dance festival and UK think tank Demos. She initially wanted to become a Burlesque artist but failing that, decided to specialise in the Blogosphere universe while expanding her knowledge in dark pretentious indie music. She is also the co-founder of Volte Face magazine, a french bimestrial aiming to deconstruct gender-related stereotypes. Her main interests lie in issues linked to gender and feminism, social media & networks as well as US politics.
Tan Copsey is Editorial Assistant at openDemocracy. He obtained a number of degrees in pleasant New Zealand climes, whilst the world warmed by a similar measure. Realising the necessity of action he moved to grey and stressful London to pursue a futile mission to both change the world and help Arsenal FC conquer Europe. He would like to think his interests are multiple and varied, and yet for some reason tends mainly to write about US politics and climate change, with occasional sidelines charting events in and around the Pacific Rim, and across the blogosphere.
Kanishk Tharoor is managing editor of Madrid11.net/terrorism.openDemocracy.net . He recently escaped to London from Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude with BAs in History and Literature. He spent his time in college as an aspiring politico, historian, journalist, and writer. Though his career as a political activist has been drawn to a close, he hopes his engagement with global politics and media, his fiction writing (for which he has won a few awards and been included in a recent Penguin anthology of short stories), and his scholarly pretensions will lead him down mysterious and foggy paths. He nurses in secret a debilitating obsession with football and a less crippling interest in Celtic mythology.
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