
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…

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…