Dear Roy Daine and All, It is a matter of regret that you chose to close down the Great Direct Democracy Experiment on MyVerdict site, which provided for people across the world to choose their own representatives through the troika method. There may be good reasons for this but I appeal to you to save the all the hard work done by you. I appeal to the WDDM members to make use of the work of Roy Daine, if not yet lost, and relaunch the experiment on its own site.
Mirek, I do not know what else is required to move in this direction. However, integrative thinking and a deep motivation to reduce the level of pain suffered in the world are of crucial importance.
PVR
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:30:26 -0400 wddm@world-wide-democracy.net wrote 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