Martin Wilding Davies is a Welsh screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, political theorist, and designer noted for his design of the Welsh street fashion

Street fashion

Street fashion is a term used to describe fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally associated with youth culture, . Japanese street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements at any given time....

 label

Brand

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, The Red Dragonhood

The Red Dragonhood

The Red Dragonhood is a street fashion label from Wales, founded in 2006 by Welsh designer Martin Davies.The label is rooted in Welsh counter-culture, as exemplified at different times by the music of bands such as Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Goldie...

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Davies is the economic theorist

Economics

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 responsible for the Uned

Uned (currency)

The Uned is a negative interest complementary currency system proposed by the political and economic theorist Martin Davies to stimulate economic activity in the moribund economy of Wales....

 ('unit' in Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

), a negative interest

Demurrage (currency)

Demurrage is a cost associated with owning or holding currency over a given period of time. It is sometimes referred to as a carrying cost of money. For commodity money such as gold, demurrage is in practice nothing more than the cost of storing and securing the gold...

 complementary currency

Complementary currency

Complementary currency is a currency meant to be used as a complement to another currency, typically a national currency. Complementary currency is sometimes referred to as complementary community currency or as community currency...

 system he proposed to stimulate economic activity in the moribund Welsh economy

Economy of Wales

The Economy of Wales. In 2010, according to ONS provisional data, headline gross value added in Wales was £44,517m, making the Welsh economy the tenth largest of the UK's twelve regions ahead of only Northern Ireland and the North East of England...

, and with economist

Economist

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 Chris Cook of the Nordic Enterprise Trust, a proposal to establish the Royal Mint

Royal Mint

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 as a capital partnership.

A social activist, Davies is the founder and leader of Newid

Newid

Newid is a political party in Wales. It is the world's first popular movement for demarchy, a form of democracy in which government policy is decided by representative groups of citizens randomly selected by sortition rather than by career politicians chosen in elections.The party defies...

, a progressive

Progressivism

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 political party

Political party

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 in Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. Newid ('change' in Welsh) is the world's first popular movement

Social movement

Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of individuals or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change....

 for demarchy

Demarchy

Demarchy is a form of government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision makers who have been selected by sortition from a broadly inclusive pool of eligible citizens...

, a form of democracy

Democracy

Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law...

 in which government policy is decided by representative

Representation (politics)

In politics, representation describes how some individuals stand in for others or a group of others, for a certain time period. Representation usually refers to representative democracies, where elected officials nominally speak for their constituents in the legislature...

 groups of citizens randomly selected by sortition

Sortition

In politics, sortition is the selection of decision makers by lottery. The decision-makers are chosen as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates....

 (lot) rather than by career politician

Politician

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s chosen in election

Election

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External links

• The Red Dragonhood - Welsh clothing label
• Newid — official site
• Martin Davies - Twitter
• Newid means change - unofficial blog