Community Assemblies are the beginning of something new for us all and although Assemblies have operated and existed for thousands of years, this new way of governing ourselves must and is taking shape.
Assemblies are gatherings called to address issues of importance to participants and operate via direct democracy. Bodies of people who have formed together to deliberate on issues of local or national or international importance. They aim to reinstall trust by taking direct ownership of decision-making, echoing the traditions of deliberative democracy and popular sovereignty that stretch back to origins in ancient past.
Community Assemblies are based on direct democracy; ordinary men & women, not elected representatives, independently drawing on some of the practices of a trial by jury, and growing rapidly across Great Britain and in Ireland.