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Just over a month ago, I helped out at a people’s assembly in Brixton, a neighbourhood of the inner south London at the end of an Underground line, to act as the facilitator of a group discussion. I have been late posting on this, as this post stalled as I struggled to figure out several…
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I’ve taken a break from this blog for a few weeks, so this post has come later than it should. I was lucky to get invited to the national gathering of the Humanity Project, a meeting of dozens of assembly organisers at a conference centre in Staffordshire. Though they have done meet-ups before, I got…
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If you’re in despair about the state of the world, the best thing you can do is join a movement for an alternatives — one that can make a real difference. My view is that the current crises are too severe to be answered in the existing mainstream. And while past radical movements like communism…
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I was back in Salisbury last weekend to see a people’s assembly firsthand. The group held their first assembly only last month, and this was their second of three that they are holding with support from Assemble. Like the first, it began with a debate in small groups on issues that mattered to the local…
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While waiting for the assembly project to get off the ground in my own area, I decided I would help similar projects elsewhere. This brought me to Salisbury (read: “Solz-buh-ree”) for two days, to try out two different ways of promoting an assembly, resulting in two differing experiences. While most assembly projects I’ve heard about…
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