[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Paul's Question on People's Assemblies Initiative

[Mark Barrett]

>From Corinna Lotz in response to Paul Hill: "You are right [Mark] – that
website is not related to us apart from Marx’s phrase."
Cheers Corinna. So people let's all sign up - we can put down our chosen
locality and make it into a democratic project for the location of the
first revolutionary PA!

Mark


On 10 June 2010 19:55, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> http://www.aworldtowin.org/index.htm
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Great initiative from AWTW, please distribute widely:
>>
>>
>> *Build People's Assemblies*
>>
>> 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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>  --
> "We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet /Yet is there no
> man speaketh as we speak in the street.”
>



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"We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet /Yet is there no
man speaketh as we speak in the street.”
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