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To learn more about assemblies happening all round the world, the XR Local Group Support Pack contains a list of website and video links to grassroots organisations doing deliberative democracy in their way... It's truly inspirational... Here's a taster:

Podcast: Power of Community Imagination - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HynJyBD6D9WW8uFvj98od?si=mzrHgRyCQRK_DlF8rRaYaQ House of Citizens

Sortition Foundation. Their proposal for a House of Citizens is supported by Extinction Rebellion https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/replace_house_of_lords_with_house_of_citizens

UK Parliament Debate - https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07143/

Another Deliberative Democracy Manual: https://communityatwork.com/

Los Indignados Assemblies in Spain: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/15/spain-15-m-movement-activism

XR Community Alliance Building Trainings (Relationships Circle on YouTube): https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/community-alliance-building/page/community-building-alliances-resource-list

Case study blogs describing local deliberative democracy: TakeTheSquare.net

Alternative models of deliberation: Open Space Technology: https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/what-is/ OR Goldfish Bowl Meetings: https://www.betterevaluation.org/methods-approaches/methods/fishbowl-technique

Why Extinction Rebellion Demands A Citizens' Assembly On Climate And Ecological Justice; explanatory video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTILQFaREZ4

Zero Hour - the Climate and Ecology Bill https://www.zerohour.uk/

Ireland's children's assembly on biodiversity calls on Ireland to 'treat the Earth like family' https://cyp-biodiversity.ie/about-the-assembly/

Video on Cheshire East People’s Panel on the Cost of Living with Positive Money: Cheshire East People's Panel on the Cost of Living: https://youtu.be/fWHdNli8mGA

David Attenborough has inspired the UK to create a People's Plan for Nature. Here's what you need to know (World Economic Forum) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/attenborough-people-s-plan-nature-uk/

Luxembourg 'step up' green energy and efficiency targets partly due to citizens' assembly (Euro News) https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/04/18/a-herculean-task-how-is-luxembourg-using-people-power-to-shift-its-energy-targets

Citizen's Assemblies

XR’s Citizens’ Assembly website Page with FAQs: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/decide-together/citizens-assembly/

Street Scripts on Citizen’s Assemblies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVS8FLegUBZKUbIijIBJ9Gsv-5i9J7tEV-J-2hZO0Mc/edit

Further Training

For Facilitation Training, the Facilitation Circle holds regular, in depth trainings.
These can be adapted to different settings, including Assemblies. You can contact the Facilitation Circle at facilitation@extinctionrebellion.uk with any questions.

Trust the People; 8 weeks and free, twice per year from the experts in building deliberative democracy: https://www.trustthepeople.earth/

Hope For The Future:Talking to Politicians whom you may invite to your assembly: https://www.hftf.org.uk/training