Massembly
Saturday 31st August, 13:00-16:00
As part of Upgrade Democracy, we are organising what we hope will become the UK's largest-ever community assembly: the Massembly! We'll be asking the question:
“How might we take meaningful steps to Upgrade Democracy?”
Bring your ideas and imagination, discuss these with others and decide together. Let’s get our voices heard. Share this with everyone you know who’s frustrated and fed-up with how things are right now. This is deliberative democracy in action!
How to get involved
At Windsor
We'll form groups of six and introduce ourselves. Each group will nominate a facilitator who will use a Discussiondiscussion pack to walk us through each step in the process. One person then submits the group’s best three ideas to an online tool called Pol.is allowing everyone taking part in the assembly to then vote on these ideas.
Bring a pen/pencil/paper or some other means of taking notes (not essential) and a smartphone (not essential, provided there are at least 3 within each group).
Online
In addition to this in-person Massembly at Upgrade Democracy, we’re planning to run a simultaneous online assembly, to enable those unable to attend in person to still participate. If this goes ahead, further details will be made available soon.
Further information and support
Stewards will be on hand to help everyone organise into groups of six and to distribute the Discussion Packs.An informationInformation Hub
hostedHosted by volunteers from the Community Assemblies Escalation Campaign and the Citizens’ Assemblies Working Group (CAWG)
will be on site.Visit the
Hubon-site information hub before the Massembly to ask questions and request additional support, e.g. request a BSL Interpreter to join your group or ask for large print versions of theDiscussiondiscussionPack.
packsIf you have specific requirements, e.g. needing a buddy, please email xr.inclusion@protonmail.com and we will support these where possible.
What happens next?
In the weeks following Upgrade Democracy we hope to run a series of online
assemblies,assemblies, using the same question and information.TheseAllowingwill be scheduled for various days/times to maximise the opportunities for newmore people toparticipatecontribute andwill be open to anyone in order to uphold the principle of radical inclusivity and toincorporate a broad range of ideas.Furtherinformation will be added here and on Rebellion Broadcast as it becomes available.After
theall these assemblies arecomplete allcomplete, the ideasin Pol.iswill be made available toaanmucheven larger number ofpeople,people, who in turn will be able to use the Pol.is platform to vote and add theirideasideas.aswell.Through the combination of the in-person assembly, online assemblies and further use of Pol.is, we will continue to increase the number of participants and the breadth and quality of ideas, so that we can collectivelyCollectively create the largest-ever community assembly in the UK!
Finally, we don’t want it to stop there
A summary of the results will be made
available.
available and Toto build on the energy and excitementgenerated and the experience gained,generated, a set of suggestions will be created for how to escalate and take the most popular ideas forward.
As a result, we can genuinely take meaningful steps to upgrade democracy!
Key info for Upgrade Democracy