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When people come together in small groups to discuss what matters to their community. I’ve been reading lately about the French Revolution and seeing so many parallels to politics today, from the fracturing and paralysis of the elites to the weather problems. Are we on the cusp of a revolution? It is hard to say.…
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I’ve written earlier about an article Roger Hallam wrote on the revolutionary potential of assemblies. I’ve more recently been listening to his podcast, Designing the Revolution, mostly from 2023 with some more scattered episodes since. Though it appears to be aimed at starting an environmental activist group, it has important lessons for starting a people’s…
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If you had to guess what “the defining movement of the next five years in Western democracies” would be, the far right would appear a sure bet. But in a piece from few weeks back in The Ecologist, Roger Hallam suggests it could be something else: “Radical, assembly-based political parties”. For those who don’t know,…
Assembly Project 