<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Dear All</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Please see note below re tonight's Peoples Assembly in Hackney. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The 50/50 approach referred to below is a strategy some of us are employing / arguing for in the Peoples Assembly against Austerity. What we mean by it is that we have 50% of meetings / events / discussions on the old format of top table and possibly (depending on how top table runs meeting) questions / proposals / votes from floor and 50% on the participative horizontalist model. Then we can showcase how it will work in practice, its attraction to people interested in a new way of doing politics and so forth* </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hey all, <br><br></div>Just to let you know that today 7-9pm at Chats Place on Brooksby Walk in Hackney, we are having the Hackney Peoples Assembly.<br>
</div>Will be a good opportunity to see how this 50/50 approach works out and what chance there is for really moving forward in this process. <br>
<br></div><div>Heres further details of the event: <br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/640218589336340/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/640218589336340/" target="_blank">events/640218589336340/</a></div>
<div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>* Some background info: I spoke with John Rees of the national peoples assembly co-ordinating group and Coalition of resistance last week at length about this, and J<span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">ohn</span> says we have the right to suggest participatory meetings as a part of the whole movement, and that people should feel empowered to plan and propose them as part of the events being planned and they should be <b>supported in that by the convenors of the local PAs</b>. And if that's not happening, we need to let <span class="">John</span> know so he can support us. He says we are<b> a legitimate strand to the movement against austerity / the left spectrum and we have a right to have our views heard and our processes honoured and supported</b>. Definitely given this we need to come up with a strategy to get the word out to local activists to present the case for a participatory approach in a professional way and to have a systematic approach to supporting their work on that from this platform. <span class="">John</span> basically said to me if you are getting a unreasonable response to a reasonable, sensibly thought out and clearly presented proposal then I should let him know so he can tell the local convenors to respond appropriately (ie supportively instead). </span></div>
<div><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some of us are working on this by way of a support group for participatory minded types within the Peoples Assembly against Austerity movement and beyond. You can read about our work at </span><a href="http://participativeassemblies.wordpress.com/">http://participativeassemblies.wordpress.com/</a></div>
<div><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also we should be thinking about 5th Nov and encourage eg Occupy Uncut others to get stuck in as it is definitely the day to do Direct Action rather than just march as on Sep 29 at Tory conference. TUC members have just endorsed this a a day of civil disobedience btw and it's also being called around the world. Autonomous actions eg occupying banks and so forth are being encouraged and also there is a planing meeting for the overall call out wording strategy etc this Thurs 19th Sep 2pm at Unite. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">More on this to follow </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
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