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Community Assemblies

Community Assemblies provide a way for people to organise locally and to experience the power of deliberative democracy to make progress on the issues that are most important to a community.

To choose our future, mitigate power and empower our communities, Community Assemblies are a powerful tool. This book gives you all you need to get the best from your experience.

Your Community Assembly can also demonstrate how XR's third demand for a Citizen's Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice could work. Locally organised assemblies empower ordinary people to open converations with allies about our Third Demand, and to talk to their politicians and local or unitary authorities on the opportunity for creating change via a Citizen's Assembly at a national level.

Community Assemblies can:
👥 Show what more inclusive democracy looks like
🤝 Strengthen our local alliances by collaborating with other organisations
👔 Keep up the pressure on politicians by inviting them along!

What Are Community Assemblies?

A community assembly is local people hearing, deliberating & deciding about local issues that af...

How to Organise and Run Assemblies in Your Community

This manual outlines the various steps that you can take to run a community assembly in your loc...

Resources to Run an Assembly

Local Group Pack Why run an assembly What to think about before launching your assembly What tr...

5 Step Escalation Plan

The Vision Imagine a plan to make sure the interests of people and nature are taken into careful ...

Massembly Resources

Funding

Watch This Space! Meantime keep in touch with your Gardener, if you have one in your region or n...

Additional Learning

More Resources If you are seeking one to one advice on how to organise or run your assembly, one ...