A popular assembly (or people's assembly) is a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants. Assemblies tend to be freely open to participation and operate by direct democracy. Some assemblies are of people from a location, some from a given workplace, industry or educational establishment others are called to address a specific issue.
The term is often used to describe gatherings that address, what participants feel are, the effects of a democratic deficit in representative democratic systems. Sometimes assemblies are created to form an alternative power structure, other times they work with other forms of government.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Networks[edit | edit source]
- XR People's Assemblies on loomio.org
How to's[edit | edit source]
- People's Assemblies Manual, rebellion.earth, added 10:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
- Peoples Assembly General Script, added 10:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
News and comment[edit | edit source]
- It took scuba diving, yoga, line dancing, bike rallies and aerial dance for Puerto Ricans to remove their governor. Next: People's Assemblies, The Daily Alternative (Sep 03, 2019)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Climate action, Climate news
- Community involvement, Community involvement news
- Community involvement UK, Community involvement UK news
- Extinction Rebellion, XR and future democracy
External links[edit | edit source]
- Wikipedia:Popular assembly
- People's assemblies, rebellion.earth
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