<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Dear All </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I will write properly again soon with a full update on <a href="http://participativeassemblies.wordpress.com/"><span></span>our team's work<span></span></a> interfacing with COR over the Peoples Assembly against Austerity in the pursuit of the participatory assembly approach and deeper political content, including about Nov 5th day of civil disobedience which is now endorsed by TUC members. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">IN the meantime please find minutes from Monday's TIARA (there is a radical/revolutionary alternative) meeting. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Following action points given could anyone interested to organise a creative 'real democracy' intervention on the<a href="http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/march-and-rally-sunday-29-september-2013/" target="_blank"> Peoples Train on Sep 29 </a>from London to Manchester put the eve of next Wed 18th Sep 7pm in their diary. We need creative design people, media crew, interviewers and facilitator small but tight team and we will be able to get half price tickets (21 instead of 42 pounds return) for train if we act fast.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Please get in touch if you are interested to participate! </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Cheers </div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Mark <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>September 9th 2013<br>
Notes from TIARA Stakeholders Meeting </b><br><br>Unite House,<br>128 Theobald’s Road,<br>Holborn, WC1X 8TN<br><br>
<b>Apologies –</b><br><br>Natalie Bennett GP, Richard Bagley MS, Loz Kaye / Andy PP, Obi Occupy / Livestream, Lili Southwark Assembly John Foster (Communist Party, Scotland, Richard Leonard GMB political officer (Scotland) including comrades from the red paper collective (The Labour Movement Alternative for Radical Constitutional Change), Shimri (Global Democracy Statement), Becky Luff international <a href="http://www.worldparliamentnow.org/" target="_blank">http://www.worldparliamentnow.org</a> Activists from the European strategy meeting ‘struggles against neo-liberalism’ <a href="http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion/archive/2013/09/1378462620913" target="_blank">http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion/archive/2013/09/1378462620913</a><br>
<br>James Holland (local organizing in New Cross), Paul Feldman AWTW AofP, John Bywater, Lambeth PA, Andree and Paul WPA<br><br>Present: Corinna A World to Win, Agreement of the People, Real Democracy Working Group Occupy London Stephen Reid NEF, UK Uncut, Eddie Bone Campaign for an English Parliament <a href="http://www.thecep.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.thecep.org.uk/</a> ( Eddie also works as a nurse, so is personally aware of the issues re cuts etc), Robbie Griffiths AWTW, Agreement of the People, Ruby Iqbal, social entrepreneur, apolitical and curious, Julie Timbrell, Occupy RDWG, Mark Barrett PAN <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/" target="_blank">www.peoplesassemblies.org</a> and RDWG and David B Liquid Law<br>
<br><b>Discussion Topics Covered</b><br><br>General discussion on the tension between bottom up and top down processes in the Peoples Assembly against Austerity.<br><br>General discussion about aims of TIARA grouping vis a vis promoting participatory approaches, influencing the direction of the PAAA and other social movements etc. Agreed: meeting is not about sharing our ideas for reforms, rather it is about completing the first stage of the process we began on June 22. IE Building on the two questions we asked on June 22nd<br>
<br>- What reforms are needed to fix our broken political system? <br><br>- How can grassroots people's assemblies and participatory movements bring them about? <br><br>Following this it was agreed that, to keep things simple and on lines that have already been shown to work, our main aim should be to consider, develop and take forward the process and achievement of June 22 and keep encouraging consideration and debate on reforms needed to fix our broken political system and how grassroots people's assemblies and participatory movements can bring them about. <br>
<br>General discussion of possible concrete next steps<br><br><b>Action Points Agreed: </b> <br><br>1. Use the above two questions used on 22 June on the Peoples Train and these will also be used as our groups aims (as above) <br>
<br>2. June 22 report will be completed ( David B to complete his section )<br><br>and Julie will send to John Rees and ask if this can be publicise. <br><br>3. Taking forward the groups' work on the Peoples Train to Manchester on Sep 29 - David will do a google docs on how to get people involved ( could be a variety of ways ) Agreed that we will all think of questions to ask on train and Mark will look into tickets etc. Tiaras could be worn on the day <br>
<br>This will be a focus of the next meeting.<br><b><br>Next meeting :</b> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">18 September 2013 7 pm<br>Mark to ask Pilgrim to book a space for us at Unite again, if possible. <br>
<br><b>AOB</b><br>European Strategy Meeting Amsterdam 4th – 6th Oct <a href="http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion/archive/2013/09/1378462620913" target="_blank">http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion/archive/2013/09/1378462620913</a><div>
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