Dear CRD & Project 2012<br><br>FYI I've agreed with Francis and Christina at 21st Century Network (21CN) that we can change the name of the 21CN Civil Rights and Democracy social action group (of which I am co-ordinator) to the 21CN Campaign for Real Democracy group, so as to fit with what we are doing here. This makes sense as the work the Civil Rights group are doing has come to a clearer point of focus, via Local Sovereignty discussions, and prior to that (in December at the LSE) Project 2012's event involving Lebfevre's Right to the City and LVT and, subsequently James' excellent name suggestion! <br>
<br>We've also agreed to do a number of meetups under the 21CN umbrella to explore the concepts of real (local, consensus) democracy, sovereignty and right to the city further. One of these meetings will be in Southgate in Sept / Oct as part of the local democracy project Francis and I are working on here in N14. A second one will be in central London, also in the autumn, on a small scale with the idea of test piloting a bigger London wide one for early 2010. <br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>In a nutshell the proosal for this is (draft only): The 21CN CRD Social Action Group will be hosting their first mini meetup on the subject of Lebfevre's The Right to the City. This Meetup will be an introduction to the concept of The Right to the City, and an exploration of the political and economic structures necessary to achieve it, and the obstacles that stand in its way. <br>
<br><b>Suggested Speakers: </b><br>Teresa Hoskyns of the London Social Forum <br>Dave or Heather Wetzel of the Labour Land Campaign <br>Mark Barrett (or another) of the CRD group and The Campaign for a 21st Century Constitution (C421)<br>
Someone from Climate Camp <br><br>Ideally we'd also get a constitutional lawyer like Anthony King or Geoffrey Robertson, or Vernon Bognador, but prob that's for the bigger later sessions. Can the people mentioned say if they'd be ok to do this? Dates will be forthcoming!<br>
<br>Find more info on 21CN at <a href="http://www.meetup.com/21stCenturyNetwork/">http://www.meetup.com/21stCenturyNetwork/</a><br>And on C421 at <a href="http://www.peopleincommon.org/C421.html">http://www.peopleincommon.org/C421.html</a><br>
<br>Cheers<br>Mark<br></div></div></div><br><br><br>