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<div>all on standby for hackney meeting eve of tues 9th march please:</div>
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<div>for everyone's info, at the moment the election meltdown peoples assembly working group are committed to writing an inclusive peoples assembly call out, for use in the run up to the election. this should be done by the middle or end of this week. </div>
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<div>one idea is that this be drafted in such a way that it could go out generally to community groups around the country, to maybe inspire them to act, but at the same time if hackney solidarity network (HSN) are up for it we can really go for it with them so people elsewhere can see what's involved. southwark people are also interested (thanks for messages rachael and lili), which is great so maybe after one in hackney there could be another one in southwark, and then from there on to parliament square! </div>
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<div>basic concept of call out would be to invite people to come together pre-election to consider the many local issues, but also to make the link between these and the wider (eg national and global) struggles. and would be great to have artistic input on this too so space girl and co please take note. date for peoples' assembly would probably be sunday april 4th, or sunday march 28th 2-5pm </div>
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<div>there is also date of sunday 14th march which is HSN film night where shaun's film on peoples' assembly will be shown at MOTH club Hackney</div>
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<div>forwarded message <br>ok we were planning a Hackney Independent meeting on Tuesday 9th march and a few of us were already commited to that so I suggest that is mutated into a mega HSN activists/EM meeting to talk about the peoples assembly idea for an hour say 7.30 till 8.30 and then leave an hour for just HI/HSN people??? the MOTH is free but waiting for confirmation. sure ether is options if a problem :) <br>
<br>rsvp asap please :) </div>
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<div>From: <a href="mailto:glynrhys68@hotmail.com" target="_blank">glynrhys68@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:dspatharidou@gmail.com" target="_blank">dspatharidou@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:shaundey@artserve.net" target="_blank">shaundey@artserve.net</a>; <a href="mailto:governmentofthedead@gmail.com" target="_blank">governmentofthedead@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:tim.dalinian.jones@googlemail.com" target="_blank">tim.dalinian.jones@googlemail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:steveburaklondon@yahoo.com" target="_blank">steveburaklondon@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:steve.dowding@lineone.net" target="_blank">steve.dowding@lineone.net</a>; <a href="mailto:carl@carltaylor.orangehome.co.uk" target="_blank">carl@carltaylor.orangehome.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:ct015g4573@blueyonder.co.uk" target="_blank">ct015g4573@blueyonder.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:sadleftie@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">sadleftie@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:oisingilmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">oisingilmore@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:taxamow@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">taxamow@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:nick.drake89@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">nick.drake89@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:ellie.schling@googlemail.com" target="_blank">ellie.schling@googlemail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:saunders.simon@googlemail.com" target="_blank">saunders.simon@googlemail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:matthew.waterfall@hackney.gov.uk" target="_blank">matthew.waterfall@hackney.gov.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:matthew_sellwood@hotmail.com" target="_blank">matthew_sellwood@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:reelnews@artserve.net" target="_blank">reelnews@artserve.net</a><br>
Subject: RE: Hackney peoples assembly Possibility - letter to HSN people AND EM and TSSN and other people re urgent hackney meeting<br>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:09:29 +0000<br><br>Hi HSN people <br> <br>The idea of peoples assemblies came up briefly at the last HSN meeting and was raised at the film show in January. There are now proposals for a peoples assembly on May 1st in Parliament Square being progressed outside of HAckney and an idea for a inaugural one in Hackney in early April. the next film show will finish on a discussion about peoples assemblies and how they worked in COP15. See below for some discssuion that has already been held. AFAIAC only a big HSN meeting could decide to progress this and if we got a good turnout at the 14th that could decide for a meeting on the sunday 4th april and see reply from me last night below <br>
<br>And Hi all <br> <br>So I suggest a few of us have an urgent meeting in hackney in the week before the 14th for an hours or so, i can upstairs at the MOTH at short or we can just do baxters .. i suggest tuesday 9th march ..<br>
<br>cheers glyn <br> <br>___________________________________________________________________________________________<br> <br> <br>Hi Mark, <br></div>
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<div>Thanks for your below message. I will go to the next TTSN (Transition Towns Stoke Newington) meeting and promote the PAs campaign and the Sunday the 14th film night. </div>
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<div>It will probably be difficult to get consensus to come as a group at the Hackney PA given the reluctance of some people to co-operate/associate with other groups but it's definitely worth the effort. It goes with out saying I guess that in the EM I only represent myself and not TTST, I just don't want to create any expectations.. :)</div>
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<div>I can also happily go out in the neighbourhood closer to the day and speak with local shop owners and the turkish community to join and/or put posters in their shops.</div>
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<div>I will be away from 10-22 of March so I will miss both the next meeting/the film night/the 11th Mar action but we'll sure be in touch.</div>
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<div>Take care/all the best</div>
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<div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <br>Hi all had a long chat with Tim earlier after talking to shaun .. it is a possibility but must come not from you or me but from the meeting on the 14th afaiac .. we are up to our necks and any more work is pretty untenable .. we will need to see people at that meeting giving commitment to do most of the work .. i would be happy to contact all the hackney people i know then .. waiting for shaun to get details tomorrow and we can send that out then :) <br>
<br>cheers glyn :) <br><br><br> <br></div>
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<div>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:16:38 +0000<br>Subject: Re: Hackney Possibility<br>From: <a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:dspatharidou@gmail.com" target="_blank">dspatharidou@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:glynrhys68@hotmail.com" target="_blank">glynrhys68@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:shaundey@artserve.net" target="_blank">shaundey@artserve.net</a>; <a href="mailto:governmentofthedead@gmail.com" target="_blank">governmentofthedead@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:tim.dalinian.jones@googlemail.com" target="_blank">tim.dalinian.jones@googlemail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:steveburaklondon@yahoo.com" target="_blank">steveburaklondon@yahoo.com</a><br>
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<div>thanks for the message dimitra (ttsn is transition towns stoke newington for the others in working group from sunday, + shaun and glyn cc/d for info hope that's okay. have a good trip and speak again soon :-) <br>
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<div>On 2 March 2010 01:08, Dimitra Spatharidou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dspatharidou@googlemail.com" target="_blank">dspatharidou@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thanks for your below message. I will go to the next TTSN meeting and promote the PAs campaign and the Sunday the 14th film night. </div>
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<div>It will probably be difficult to get consensus to come as a group at the Hackney PA given the reluctance of some people to co-operate/associate with other groups but it's definitely worth the effort. It goes with out saying I guess that in the EM I only represent myself and not TTST, I just don't want to create any expectations.. :)</div>
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<div>I can also happily go out in the neighbourhood closer to the day and speak with local shop owners and the turkish community to join and/or put posters in their shops.</div>
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<div>I will be away from 10-22 of March so I will miss both the next meeting/the film night/the 11th Mar action but we'll sure be in touch.</div>
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<div>Take care/all the best</div>
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<div>On 1 March 2010 07:33, Mark Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Just to confirm that at the Foundry meeting a proposal was made to ask Hackney Solidarity if they would like to co-facilitate an inaugural People's Assembly, in a building tbc in Hackney to get started the Peoples Assembly election resistance campaign, and ongoing decision making processes going. Date originally proposed was Sunday March 28th. Having talked with Glyn it seems the idea could work, only it might need to be a bit later, say Easter Sunday April 4th - which is quite symbolic. </div>
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<div>Problem with that is that some people do go away for the Easter Weekend. Anyway the overall thing needs to come from HS and others interested to make it happen in Hackney so let's see where that goes this week. Obviously Glyn needs to ask the rest of the HS network, and also lots of logistical and practical questions would need to be resolved </div>
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<div>Worth noting this could follow on nicely from the HS film night planned at the MOTH Club on the eve of Sunday 14th. Glyn or Shaun, please send the details on the Film night so we can Facebook it and promote (with a brief mention of the possibility of the 1st PA flowiong on from it) and let's speak again soon.</div>
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<div>PS Thanks to Tim and others we already have lots of possible fliers ready for use to promote any such event, plus I'm sure we can get a few helpers in to get the thing well advertised. Merlin, Chris and I will work on an invite over the next 48 hours, but in the meantime what do people think?</div>
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<div>PPS The more inclusive the better, but if it flies some people I thought we might like to get involved in promoting / on the day include:
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<div>The People Speak for livestream possibility (Saul?)</div>
<div>Local Radio (Harriet?) </div>
<div>Other Local Press<br>Local Quakers and other religious groups ?</div>
<div>Turkish / Other Communities ?</div>
<div>WAG ?</div>
<div>Tango Commute (Thomas?)</div>
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<div>So there are lots of interesting possibilities !</div></div></div><br><br>
<div>On 1 March 2010 07:16, Elizabeth Power <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:power1931@googlemail.com" target="_blank">power1931@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Re the beginnings of our core principles, attached pls find the CJA Network Principles that today's meeting attenders are being asked to support. Link to same is here <a href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/about/about-cja/" target="_blank">http://www.climate-justice-action.org/about/about-cja/</a></div>
<div>Also we have our core themes from last year's meltdown of war, climate, money crimes and land / housing to consider<br> <br>Re election posters <br> <br> saw reference in the papers to this site today <a href="http://www.davidcameron.com/" target="_blank">www.davidcameron.com</a> (in context of Brown's resurgence in the polls). I <br>
particularly liked this one: <a href="http://www.mydavidcameron.com/posters4/iht2" target="_blank">http://www.mydavidcameron.com/posters4/iht2</a> Had a thought on this: following Class War's recent contribution, what about posters playing on this with words like eg "Bankers" (or even "Hands in the Till" or something similar about criminal expenses )? <br>
<br>3. For the Peoples Assembly - how about a poster which features mug shots of all four corpses (Cameron, Brown, Clegg and midget Griffin), all lined up on one poster, with the exact font from Obama's campaign subverted to "Change you Can't Believe In" as a banner across them? <br>
<br>About Peoples Assemblies - in case you missed this, some ideas so far are:<br> <br>>Over the course of recent meetings, one of the things that has<br>> regularly been discussed, and towards which we appear to be edging, is the<br>
> facilitation of one or more UK-based Peoples' Assemblies, both as part<br>> of the election resistance and in response to the international call out<br>> from CJA after Copenhagen.<br>><br>> At yesterday's meeting, which will continue later today, the following<br>
> points arose which we would like to communicate to you.<br>><br>> First, as a group, we hope to:<br>><br>> (1) show solidarity by signing up to the CJA Network's Goals, Principles for<br>> Working Together and Call to Action as set out at<br>
> <a href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/about/about-cja/" target="_blank">http://www.climate-justice-action.org/about/about-cja/</a> and attenders are<br>> reading them tonight so we may reach consensus on this tomorrow.<br>
><br>> (2) more broadly reach out to other socially and environmentally engaged<br>> groups in 2010, to offer a platform around the Peoples' Assembly in the UK<br>><br>> *The Peoples' Assembly*<br>> **<br>
> We are still in the process of considering carefully where, when, what and<br>> how to go about setting up Peoples' Assemblies in 2010. I've set out our<br>> rough plans so far on this at the bottom of the following list of ideas<br>
> /points / questions on PAs that came up at yesterday's meeting.<br>><br>> (1) PAs should be essentially about the opening up of sovereign space within<br>> which the usual hegemonic logic of state and capital cannot operate, because<br>
> only within such a free space can transformed social and environmental<br>> relationships prevail.<br>><br>> (2) this could be called a reclaiming of the commons,<br>><br>> (3) A philosophy of non-violence and a definite vegan attitude at PAs?<br>
><br>> (4) PAs may need to be defended<br>><br>> (5) PAs must go beyond conversations with other people in the movement, to<br>> touch, engage with and include the wider public.<br>><br>> (6) PAs should be a rising civil society (third international) model to that<br>
> of state and capital<br>><br>> (7) PAs should be about space, inclusion, independence and interdependence,<br>> sovereignty, equality, spontaneity, talking through and listening on issues<br>> of relevance to ordinary people, a climate of change, creativity,<br>
> self-expression, new social relations (food share as ritual?) and an<br>> inspiring spur to collective action.<br>><br>> (8) PAs should help to bring together local groups, and individuals (for<br>> direct democracy), to unite local and global struggles to mobilise further<br>
> together, to build real networks grounded in place, to show 'this is what<br>> democracy looks like'<br>><br>> (9) system change not climate change<br>><br>> (10) reclaim power!<br>><br>> *The UK Election Peoples Assembly*<br>
><br>> A possibility here is for there to be one or more Peoples Assemblies leading up to the parade and then big peoplesi assembly / democracy village occupation in Parliament Square in the first week of May...</div>
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<div><br>On 1 March 2010 07:04, Mark Barrett <<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> this is the stuff we need, because it's right but also because the anti-war<br>
> movement people need our support. re our core principles comes under "war"<br>> if the four horses from april1st 2009 are still about war, money crimes,<br>> climate and land / housing. thanks for this mhari!<br>
> x<br>><br>> On 27 February 2010 15:49, yodet gherez <<a href="mailto:guditta@hotmail.com" target="_blank">guditta@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> hey there good people hope you're all well :-)<br>
>> i just wanted to throw out a few thoughts seeing as unfortunately i can't<br>>> be there tomorrow!<br>>><br>>> Something I think is important to talk about & include is<br>>> Anti-Imperialism, as one of the objectives of this gathering & action; that<br>
>> part of what we should/could oppose is the imperialist (& racist) actions of<br>>> our government including the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, the witch hunt of<br>>> Muslims both domestically & internationally - especially recently with the<br>
>> horrendous prison sentences given to young people who participated in the<br>>> demo for Gaza last january - most of them Muslims; linked to this too is the<br>>> demonisation of Immigrants, Refugees & Asylum Seekers.<br>
>><br>>> I think that these issues are of grave importance, and are bound up with<br>>> the oppressive actions our government continues to exact upon people,<br>>> particularly people 'on the bottom'. I think too its important to address<br>
>> these issues, alongside Class issues, otherwise we risk alienating or<br>>> excluding, albeit not intentionally, People Of Colour (I say that in the<br>>> political sense).<br>>><br>>> I think too, it would be good to reach out to folks on the bottom, people<br>
>> of colour, share our thinking more around this Action; see what folks think,<br>>> gather their input, thoughts, feelings, perspectives & idea's for action. I<br>>> think this would/will be a challenge, from my small experience, there are<br>
>> divisions & is distrust & struggles to build relationships across our<br>>> respective differences; but think it would be important to explore this. One<br>>> group for example which I thought it could be good to speak with, is the<br>
>> Latin American Youth Forum which Paula is working with? Perhaps as one place<br>>> to start? Paula what do you think?<br>>><br>>> I hope am not being presumptious with this, not at all, just some<br>
>> thoughts, and ofcourse I haven't yet been able to make the meetings as yet -<br>>> but think that these are key key things to think about and act upon.....<br>>><br>>> if i think of anything else i'll drop a message - is all my brain has come<br>
>> up with as of yet!<br>>><br>>> am off to go cook some tea, Love Luck & Revolution y'all!!<br>>><br>>> here's a pressie, one of my fave Irish Folk songs!<br>>><br>>> Enjoy comrades, sisters, brothers & friends! :-) xxxxx<br>
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