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00903: re: wanted our little political party to act as an assembly

From: Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:54:29 +0100
Subject: re: wanted our little political party to act as an assembly

At 8:22 +0000 9-01-2007, Richard Moore wrote:
Antonio Rossin wrote:
Richard,


thanks for your suggestions.



You're most welcome.

The real problem, here, is not how to organize the democratic
assembly. It is about how to make the people attend into it.



Activists have that same problem everywhere. You are not  alone. There are various reasons why people don't want to participate. For one thing, they realize it is very difficult to impact the political system, and for another they have probably found that 'public meetings' of all kinds are usually frustrating and a waste of time.


That's why I suggest in the Framework to begin with a 'whole system' process  like a Wisdom Council. This is easier to manage, because you only need twelve participants. Wherever this has been tried, a great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by the quality of the results, both in the participants and in those who attend the public meeting afterwards. As that enthusiasm builds, with another Wisdom Council or two, it becomes easier to get people to participate in civic dialog.


It turns out that process is the key factor. It's not whether  people meet, it's how they meet, how they dialog. It took me years to learn this.


cheers,
richard

Ok. Richard,

Yesterday I've had my evening!

I had prepared a formal association, called "Dialectic Education".
Its articles say that it is devoted to give parents all the possible
informations in order to grow-up democratic children -- basing
on parents showing dialectical confrontation between themselves
eventually and giving their child the first say about family policies
Just the opposite of the fundamentalist madrasas-based family.

I founded the Dial Ed association 3 years ago with 8 friends
as the founding members. Not so many, but enough to enter
an European Project (attached here) in cooperation with local
school institutions, the town  mayor etc.
The project (its questionnaire and glossary) has been spread
through kindergarten and schools to 1,200 parents in the town


Four influent persons of the town asked me for a meeting.
We met yesterday evening, at dinner. They offered to support
the Dial Ed association with their own membership of course,
to which that of  their friends and of the friends of their friends
should naturally follow.

Let's see what happens next...


Best regards,
antonio


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