Dear all,I am writing from Equador from this Phoenix Gathering:
http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/2008/03/roster-of-participants.html
(organized by Richard Moore). A lot a new interesting information here!
A preview:Among others: Equador seems to be at the fore-front of
building participative democracy from the grass-root level. They have a
constitutional assembly preparting new participative constitution.It was
reported that a variation of the troika system proposed by fred
(
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?23,541,549#msg-549) has
actually been implemented in Cuba for some time and is working well. Instead of
a group of three people, the basic group consists of about 7 to 12 families who
select one representative to a higher (block) level. It takes about 7 levels to
get to the national assembly. They reportedly also have the following recall
system: if a family decides not to support a representative they elected from
their basic group, it is recalled from whatever higher level he/she was
promoeted, and somebody else has to be chosen in his place.Equador is
said to be in the process of implementing a very similar system.The
Phoenix project site (
http://www.wakingthephoenix.org) is planned to be filled
with a lot of information we heard diring this meeting and soem final document,
and perhaps proposed actions. So check it out in the near future.Greetings, Mirek