[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Last Night's Meeting

[Anna Bragga]

I'm sorry that I haven't been able to attend any of your meetings yet, but I really support what you are trying to do.

 

I have read through all of your action points of consensus and agree with all of them. What innovative ideas... brilliant!

 

Anna
 
> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:09:26 +0100
> From: dave.mellows at virgin.net
> To: james at dogmanet.org; campaignforrealdemocracy at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: Re: [Campaignforrealdemocracy] Last Night's Meeting
> 
> I am not sure we did get consensus on C) and D), but I think they are really
> important.
> 
> I am going to be away for two weeks now, and am not sure I will be able to
> access emails.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On 10/6/09 22:42, "james holland" <james at dogmanet.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > lots of stuff here but i just sent a rather short draft statement that i
> > think we should develop for starters?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > James Holland
> > 
> > http://risingclevel.blogspot.com/
> > 
> > Mark Barrett wrote:
> >> Hi everyone who was there last night (monday at RFH) and to the 4
> >> apologees. And my apologies in turn for not having finished the
> >> minutes yet. Won't be able to finish them til tomorrow eve
> >> at earliest, or Thurs AM.
> >> 
> >> In lieu of that, here, I think, are the action points we more or less
> >> agreed.
> >> 
> >> Pls can people comment on them in the next 24 hours?
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> Mark
> >> 
> >> 
> >> *CRD Draft Action Points of Consensus*
> >> 
> >> (1) To support one or more local community struggles in London, and
> >> where possible help them develop towards the self-governing 'real
> >> democracy' / local sovereignty project we've been considering, and in a
> >> way that suits them. To offer info, skills to share and connections with
> >> other local/democratic community groups in London and elsewhere
> >> 
> >> (2) To suggest to each other struggles that can be supported in this way
> >> so we can begin to map, and connect ourselves up with local groups and,
> >> ideally also connect local groups to each other, in practical solidarity
> >> 
> >> (3) To invite groups and individuals concerned about democratic
> >> community to form a properly constituted, initiallly as a
> >> Localists' Union, (but not limited to that - see E below), union
> >> with simple, initial basic campaign aims of:
> >> 
> >> (A) building trust in the idea of community, and in a
> >> different, emancipatory way of organising society
> >> 
> >> demanding and doing united actions in support of:
> >> (B) a community building in every neighbourhood to be run by those
> >> around it
> >> (C) pieces of land in and around cities to be ring fenced for new,
> >> intentional democratic communities to be created
> >> 
> >> and (D) a commitment to keep relentlessly under consideration key
> >> questions about structure, eg about what kind of tax system, and other
> >> structural changes will be necessary to suport a really democratic,
> >> community based society
> >> 
> >> and finally (E) recognising the struggle for real democracty is not
> >> *just *about localism, but that there are many other types of community
> >> that could and should be democratic, but local is where people actually
> >> live and work, so it is the right place to start building a
> >> society governed on different lines to the one we have now. But also we
> >> are for the right to organise more widely than that, in workplaces,
> >> places of study, prisons, hospitals - participation not false
> >> representation! 
> >> 
> >> [folks we definitely got consensus on A and B and i think also E but
> >> what about C and D? I'll need to include this in the Minutes - and in
> >> the invite to the next meeting - in some way, so please can people give
> >> me feeling on these points? C was already agreed in prev discussions on
> >> Local Sovereignty concept but we didn't go into it in detail last night.
> >> And (D) covers our talks about tax, local parliaments, banks, job
> >> centres etc. Phrased in this way, seems uncontroversial and reflective
> >> of our discussion last night?
> >> (4) To arrange a meeting in the next month to take this agenda further
> >> forward [ I have already got started on this ]
> >> (5) to invite all our nice colleagues / friends and people of like mind
> >> in the wider network to get involved
> >> (6) to consider coming to the picnic on Aug 15th and telling people
> >> about it, and
> >> (7) the possibilty of a Winter Right to the City Conference.
> >> 
> >> Make sense as a 1st draft / summary ?
> >> 
> >> Obviously I will have to condense all this down but thought it a good
> >> idea to run the rough draft past you first to see if I'm missing
> >> anything important.
> >> 
> >> Mark 
> >> 
> >> PS found this on Flickr
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelmsfordblue/3574699495/in/set-721576188654794
> >> 03
> >> Got photos too, of us in front of the plasticine paradise from my phone
> >> camera, do people want me to send them (they are not tiny files, but not
> >> gargantuan either, but after all the fuss with my phone they are really
> >> rather nice!!) 
> >> 
> >> 
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