[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Fwd: [Dem-Village] Re: [project2012] Fwd: Theory and Practice

[Mark Barrett]

 Re Assemblies and the need to develop them as permanent left City-wide
structures in the UK and elsewhere here are some possibnly good ideas,
example and models from across the pond - please facebook / tweet it
(especially the 1st two) and get em to comrades, student, education and
anti-cuts groups..!

Key text on Working Peoples Assemblies
http://www.socialistproject.ca/relay/relay30_gindin.pdf
Toronto Workers Assembly http://www.workersassembly.ca/

And the University of Toronto General
Assembly<http://utgeneralassembly.wordpress.com/>"is a direct
democracy. It is open to members of the University of Toronto
community broadly conceived. This includes, but is not limited to, students,
workers, faculty, alumni, and neighbours. Each member of the General
Assembly has equal voice and vote. The Assembly is accountable to no
organization except itself. Its goal is to enact the will of its members in
order to create a University that promotes its foremost concerns of social
justice, equity, anti-oppression, accessibility, and anti-corporatization."

Presumably we will still need some kind of parliamentary assemblies, English
and /or British and European and indeed World but it/they will needs to be
driven from below, from the communities and not the other waya round.

On the Brit front, also about PAs see the statement we did in 2006 on the
constitution:
http://www.peopleincommon.org/archive/C421.html

In context of City-wide assemblies and encouraging them to form of course
the work of David Harvey on the Right to the City would also be a useful
pointer / primer?

In solidarity

Mark
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