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<div class="gmail_quote">Pls find attached and below info about the Paris University meeting Feb11-13th. I intend to go to the whole weekend meeting, and am also proposing some stuff to the event, about future mobilisations. Additionally our PA working group wants to offer the University movement for "A New Europe" [as with Network X and others] use of, and shared development rights over the <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/">www.peoplesassemblies.org</a> URL, basically to help build the widest possible, bottom-up revolutionary network. . </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">My question here is this. As a network - specifically the Campaign for Real Democracy network - can we please make a named adherence to the Uni event and the Network X event in Manchester this weekend? Ideally, to promote what we stand for and also to encourage the PA idea I'd really like us to put ourselves forward, and specifically with the ideas set out at <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/project2012/web/crd-principles?hl=en">https://groups.google.com/group/project2012/web/crd-principles?hl=en</a> </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">What do people think ? And big objections? (I've also pasted the points to the bottom of this mail in case you can't see them). In case you're wondering, these are not a new set of ideas, I put to all of you sometime back for your consideration, no-one disagreed and they got amended accordingly so they are not just plucked from thin air.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Let me know what you think as soon as you can please.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Thanks</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Mark<br><br><br>Dear all,<br><br>Attached you will find a program proposal for the Febuary Paris<br>meeting. This draft is the result of the collective discussion with<br>groups here in Paris and the Edu-Factory collective while trying to<br>
take into account the numerous suggestions that have been circulating<br>on this and other lists.<br><br>This is by no means a final program. Please feel free to comment, add,<br>subtract or otherwise suggest changes as you may see fit.<br>
<br>Note that Saturday 12 afternoon is entirely dedicated to workshops and<br>we have procured the necessary spaces to accommodate any number of<br>proposals. Groups or individuals who would like to propose a workshop<br>
are encouraged to send a short abstract that can be included in the<br>program. So far we already have 4 proposals, more details will come.<br><br>Logistically speaking, nearly all of the conference spaces have been<br>definitively confirmed and housing solutions are being put into place.<br>
Again, it is very important that each group sends a mail to<br><a href="mailto:info@edu-factory.org" target="_blank">info@edu-factory.org</a> with the number of participants expectedif you<br>need lodging.<br><br>For any specifically local organizational questions, feel free to<br>
write me at <a href="mailto:j.mcgimsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">j.mcgimsey@gmail.com</a> and I'll try to answer as soon as I<br>can.<br><br><br><br><br>Potentia et excedere,<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>j<br><a style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://mail.google.com/group/project2012/web/real_democracy1.jpg?hl=en" rel="nofollow"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://mail.google.com/group/project2012/web/real_democracy1.jpg?hl=en&display=thumb&width=200&height=200"></font></a>
<p style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"><strong><font color="#000000">Campaign for Real Democracy:</font></strong></p>
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<p style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"><font color="#000000">Peoples Assemblies and the world we believe they can bring about ~</font></p>
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<p style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"><font color="#000000"><strong>VALUES</strong>:</font></p>
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<p style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"><font color="#000000"><strong>Equality</strong> – each person is able to speak and be listened to – there is no elite platform<br>
<strong>Difference</strong> – we learn from each other’s perspectives; we may disagree, but we listen to one another respectfully and our views become refined through the experience<br><strong>Solidarity</strong> – we are together because we believe in the existence of a common agenda. In spite of our differences, we pursue and find consensus over ideas and shared actions<br>
<strong>Sharing</strong> – we believe in a society in which sharing and co-operation triumph over competition. We freely share food and other gifts at our meetings<br><strong>Secularity and Spirituality</strong> – we respect and are happy to learn from different belief systems</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong>Ecology</strong> – we believe in a new, really democratic society with a very low/zero carbon footprint</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong>Self-determination</strong> – we struggle for a new kind of freedom based on community, nurturing, true individuality, and vice versa – “It takes a village to bring up a child”</font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><strong>DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES:</strong><br></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(1) Peoples Assemblies make decisions horizontally</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(2) Peoples Assemblies are interested to learn about, try out and embody new democratic practices</font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><strong>CORE AIMS:</strong><br></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(1) <strong>Real Democracy</strong> – PAs should find ways to campaign for a really ecological, democratic society at local, national and global levels<br>(2) <strong>Decentralisation</strong> – to bring this about, sovereignty should be vested at the neighbourhood / community / workplace / study place level</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(3)<strong> Internationalism</strong> – PA communities link up in solidarity and support across the world<br>(4) <strong>Ideals</strong> – we are interested to bring about a world based on a <strong>Reclaimation of the Commons, Truth, Peace, Sustainability, Justice and Compassion</strong> above all things and we are willing to fight <strong>non-violently</strong> to this end<br>
(5) <strong>Peoples Assembly movement</strong> – to bring these aims about we are calling for a movement based on the idea of Peoples Assemblies<br></font><strong><br><font color="#000000">IDEOLOGY:</font></strong><br></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(1) local, democratic not private or state led provision of public services (the real third way)<br>(2) really democratic, people powered globalisation, not capitalist or state-led (the real third "world", or international) as a means in its end, but also a way of forcing the nation states to work together for the good of all </font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">(3) a new appropriate political economy to match</font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000">For more information email </font><a href="mailto:crdlondon@gmail.com" rel="nofollow"><font color="#000000">crdlondon@gmail.com</font></a><font color="#000000"> or text / call 0785 439 0408</font></p>
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