Calling out for Peoples' Assemblies (issued March 2010)

People have the right to exercise power and not just vote for others to do it for them.

Party politicians offer no hope, because they all prop up the state or private capital. Therefore the recovery and future of politics must be people, not state or private led.

That is why in election year we are calling for all-inclusive, people and planet friendly, independent Peoples' Assemblies to be convened across the country.

On May 8th, the first act of the incoming grassroots government was to plant an oak tree in the middle of Parliament Square. This was illegal. Or rather, the outgoing regime deemed it illegal. We went ahead anyway. They have their laws, we have ours. We consider everything they do illegal, from invading other peoples’ countries and dropping bombs on them to stealing our money to pay bankers’ bonuses.

We are Diggers. We intend to carry on digging. The earth is a common treasury for all. [Posted May 10th 2010]

We will be calling a People's Assembly in Parliament Square on May 1st as part of the May Day celebrations, and inviting everyone participating in the day to become an equal voice in that Assembly.

In this instance it is hoped the people will use the Assembly to organise direct action together, creating a powerful, practical and symbolic institution of true democratic power in direct contrast to representative democracy, the present government and forthcoming elections.

But we also believe the heart of this movement must be local. So, this is why for all of you who are beginning to recognise that the only way of creating a more just, democratic and ecologically sustainable world is by doing it yourself, we are calling on you everywhere to start advertising and holding local Peoples' Assemblies in your area.

This is not more top down initiative, but rather a decentralised, democratic local community-led movement, vital to the restoration of equality, and the creation of a politics that is is genuinely equal and in which you set the agenda.

To begin with the Assemblies could simply act as a forum to link up the people and groups that live and work in your community, but over time it is hoped that through discussion in a free, open and inclusive democratic space you will be able to develop real people-led solutions to your problems.

Under this banner it is hoped too that you will begin to realise the innate power vested in you, that it is still and shall forever be sovereign, and that in matters concerning your own life only you have the right to exercise it.

Only by organising together in this way can we the people truly uphold the values of civil society, truth, justice, fairness and equality, and ensure that they take their, and we take our, rightful place at the table.

For only here through local People's Assemblies, rather than in those corridors of power at Westminster, will any decisions regarding your future actually be legitimate, because you will be the ones making them, and only you have that right.

For more information on how to hold a People's Assembly in your area, click here to see a loose affiliation of organisations advocating and organising the demonstration of real democratic power around election 2010.

Yours

Election Meltdown

Democracy Village: MAY 1 - JULY 20 2010

Parliament Square was seized from the enemy class and successfully defended on May 1st 2010. PICTURES. EVICTION. HOMELESS. VIDEO RECORD