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<div>I am writing to you on behalf of the <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/">www.peoplesassemblies.org</a> working group. The short movie featured below this email is about the various crises, and the proposed strategy of a Movement of People's Assemblies in response. Also see info there about about the AWTW 'Teach In' this Saturday in London at Birkbeck. </div>
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<div>Our working group is now in the process of making this URL into a collaborative on-line resource, where we hope lots of people will be able to find out about their local Peoples Assemblies, or be given the tools to start one themselves. </div>
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<div>What we mean by Peoples Assembly is wide: they can take place anywhere in the world and be in and about any local community, school, university or workplace. They might be about challenging the way that area or institution is run or funded (ie make it more democratic, or enlightened), or about planning direct actions or a mixture of both. Or they might be simply be about a theme eg on the future of farming, work or education. Or a single issue such as to protect the local trees or libraries. And as has happened with General / Student Assemblies in occupied campuses across the UK already, they may be inspiring forms of direct action in themselves. Long may this tradition continue! </div>
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<div>Anyway, these are just a few ideas, we don't want to be too prescriptive, and probably you get the basic idea!</div>
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<div>So, regarding the website which we are offering as a collaborative and democratic tool with which to share info and inspiration horizontally, and through this we hope build a movement of Peoples Assemblies with which to change the status quo, as a 1st step, if your campus or local group would like to set up a blog there, or have your own local blog featured and /or streamed onto the front page, please get in touch! Content - like the concept - is very opene ended: it can be about any aspect of the type of Assembly you are working on, involved in, or aiming to set up.</div>
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<div>We are aiming to go live with the first part of this in the next 2-3 weeks so do get in touch if you are interested to know more!!</div>
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<div>And please do spread this request around if you can...</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<td bgcolor="#ece9d8"><strong>Update 158</strong>: <br>10 January 2011 </td></tr>
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<h1><a href="http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/BeyondResistanceVideo.html" target="_blank"><em>Beyond Resistance</em> - the movie</a> </h1>
<p>Have you read <strong><em>Beyond Resistance</em></strong> – the book?</p>
<p>Now there’s Dylan Strain’s brand new FILM… Just out</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/BeyondResistanceVideo.html" target="_blank">http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/BeyondResistanceVideo.html</a> </p>
<p>ENJOY and… come along to the Teach-In </p>
<h2>This Saturday<br>15 January, 1-5.30pm, <br>R416, Birkbeck College<br>Malet Street <br>London<br><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC1E+7HX&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&rlz=&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl" target="_blank">WC1E 7HX</a> [map link] </h2>
<p>A chance to get to come to grips with what is behind the spending cuts – can the government be turned around or do we need to go deeper and work for a change of system? Put your views and questions in an open discussion and discover how people’s assemblies can show a way out of the economic crisis and the political logjam. More info and registration here:</p>
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<h1>Our Blogs</h1>
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<li><a href="http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/tuscon-shooting-and-americas-crisis.html" target="_blank">Tucson shooting and America's crisis</a>
<li><a title="blocked::http://aworldtowin.net/blog/pakistans-poor-caught-in-middle.html" href="http://aworldtowin.net/blog/pakistans-poor-caught-in-middle.html" target="_blank">Pakistan's poor caught in the middle</a>
<li><a title="blocked::http://aworldtowin.net/blog/system-wide-problem-indeed.html" href="http://aworldtowin.net/blog/system-wide-problem-indeed.html" target="_blank">A 'system-wide' problem indeed</a>
<li><a title="blocked::http://aworldtowin.net/blog/attack-on-living-standards-intensifies.html" href="http://aworldtowin.net/blog/attack-on-living-standards-intensifies.html" target="_blank">Attack on living standards intensifie</a>
<li><a title="blocked::http://aworldtowin.net/blog/your-vote-counts-for-very-little.html" href="http://aworldtowin.net/blog/your-vote-counts-for-very-little.html" target="_blank">Your vote counts for very little</a>
<li><a title="blocked::http://aworldtowin.net/blog/let-sleeping-giant-speak-in-2011.html" href="http://aworldtowin.net/blog/let-sleeping-giant-speak-in-2011.html" target="_blank">Let the sleeping giant speak in 2011</a> <br>
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<h1>Review</h1>
<p><a href="http://aworldtowin.net/reviews/CrisisofCivilisation.html" target="_blank">Getting from A to B is the big issue</a> - Phil Sharpe reviews an ambitious book about the global crisis and its causes.</p></td>
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