Peoples assemblies
A popular assembly (or Peoples' 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 a representative democratic systems.[1] Sometimes assemblies are created to form an alternative power structure, other times they work with other forms of government. W
Resources
How to's
- People's Assemblies Manual, rebellion.earth, added 10:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
- Peoples Assembly General Script, added 10:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Networks
- XR People's Assemblies on loomio.org
See also
- Climate action, Climate news
- Community involvement, Community involvement news
- Community involvement UK, Community involvement UK news
- Extinction Rebellion, XR and future democracy
External links
- Wikipedia:Popular assembly
- People's assemblies, rebellion.earth