[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Tonight Hackney Peoples Assembly Today! / General Info

[Mark Barrett]

Dear All

Please see note below re tonight's Peoples Assembly in Hackney.


The 50/50 approach referred to below is a strategy some of us are employing
/ arguing for in the Peoples Assembly against Austerity. What we mean by it
is that we have 50% of meetings / events / discussions on the old format of
top table and possibly (depending on how top table runs meeting) questions
/ proposals / votes from floor and 50% on the participative horizontalist
model. Then we can showcase how it will work in practice, its attraction to
people interested in a new way of doing politics and so forth*
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Hey all,

Just to let you know that today 7-9pm at Chats Place on Brooksby Walk in
Hackney, we are having the Hackney Peoples Assembly.
Will be a good opportunity to see how this 50/50 approach works out and
what chance there is for really moving forward in this process.

Heres further details of the event:
https://www.facebook.com/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/640218589336340/>
events/640218589336340/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/640218589336340/>
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* Some background info: I spoke with John Rees of the national peoples
assembly co-ordinating group and Coalition of resistance last week at
length about this, and John says we have the right to suggest participatory
meetings as a part of the whole movement, and that people should feel
empowered to plan and propose them as part of the events being planned and
they should be *supported in that by the convenors of the local PAs*. And
if that's not happening, we need to let John know so he can support us. He
says we are* a legitimate strand to the movement against austerity / the
left spectrum and we have a right to have our views heard and our processes
honoured and supported*.  Definitely given this we need to come up with a
strategy to get the word out to local activists to present the case for a
participatory approach in a professional way and to have a systematic
approach to supporting their work on that from this platform. John basically
said to me if you are getting a unreasonable response to a  reasonable,
sensibly thought out and clearly presented proposal then I should let him
know so he can tell the local convenors to respond appropriately (ie
supportively instead).

Some of us are working on this by way of a support group for participatory
minded types within the Peoples Assembly against Austerity movement and
beyond. You can read about our work at
http://participativeassemblies.wordpress.com/

Also we should be thinking about 5th Nov and encourage eg Occupy Uncut
others to get stuck in as it is definitely the day to do Direct Action
rather than just march as  on  Sep 29 at Tory conference. TUC members have
just endorsed this a a day of civil disobedience btw and it's also being
called around the world. Autonomous actions eg occupying banks and so forth
are being encouraged and also there is a planing meeting  for the overall
call out wording strategy etc this Thurs 19th Sep 2pm at Unite.

More on this to follow

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