[Campaignforrealdemocracy] People's Assemblies Initiative

[Mark Barrett]

No - I asked that too when I 1st worked with AWTW; it is just a phrase of
Marx they both picked up on. Will ask Fiona, Paul or Corinna et al (cc/d) to
respond more fully. Mark


On 10 June 2010 19:50, Paul Hill <paul.wisdom at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A Google search leads to the following site:
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> http://www.aworldtowin.org/index.htm
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> any connection?
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> *From:* self-propelled-community-organisations at googlegroups.com [mailto:
> self-propelled-community-organisations at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> Barrett
> *Sent:* 10 June 2010 15:40
> *To:* project2012 at googlegroups.com;
> campaignforrealdemocracy at lists.aktivix.org;
> self-propelled-community-organisations at googlegroups.com;
> buildinglocalgroups at lists.riseup.net; democracyvillage at googlemail.com;
> election-meltdown-activists-group at googlegroups.com; climateorg copenhagen;
> peopleincommon at lists.riseup.net
> *Subject:* People's Assemblies Initiative
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> Great initiative from AWTW, please distribute widely:
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> *Build People's Assemblies*
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> A World to Win urges communities to unite to defeat the attacks by the
> Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government on public services and living
> standards already under way.
>
> Tens of thousands of public and private sector workers will lose their jobs
> and local communities be deprived of vital services unless we come together
> to defeat the government.
>
> What Cameron and Clegg call the ‘national interest’ in reality means doing
> what’s right by the bankers and speculators who are responsible for the
> global crisis in the first place.
>
> We should reject the spending cuts altogether. Financiers have already had
> their pound of flesh, with taxpayers’ bailing out the banks when they
> collapsed after running up enormous debts.
>
> The greatest economic and financial crisis since the 1930s is the
> responsibility of capitalist corporations and bankers. They have forfeited
> the right to run the world.
>
> Parliament won’t defend us and New Labour is equally responsible for the
> disaster. So A World to Win suggests that we create a network of People’s
> Assemblies to unite communities.
>
> People’s Assemblies will represent ordinary people’s interests, whether
> they are young or old, in work or unemployed, in the public or private
> sector, trade unionists, students, minorities and community groups resisting
> the cuts.
>
> The Assemblies will also look beyond a failed economic system where profit
> and speculation comes first and towards building a true democracy in place
> of the sham one we live under now.
>
> *Register*
> Register your support for a People’s Assembly in your area and together we
> can defeat the coalition and change the world.
> http://www.aworldtowin.net/frontline/BuildPeoplesAssemblies.html
>
>



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