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You Are the Value: Where Assembly Life Really Begins
Assembly life does not begin with a structure, a meeting, or a set of documents. It begins with living men and women. This is true whether they are inside the current legacy…
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On the Origin and Design of Government
An extract from the writings of Thomas Paine: Common Sense - On the Origin and Design of Government in General; with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution (1776). " Perhaps the sentiments contained…
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Self Love, Suveranty and the Ripple of Peace
Valentine’s Day tends to direct love outward. We think of romantic gestures, thoughtful words, and the quiet hope of being chosen, appreciated, or truly seen. But there is a quieter, more enduring…
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Being Informed, Involved, and Part of the Conversation
From Delegating Power to Taking Part For a long time, we’ve been conditioned to think that taking part in public life means voting every few years and then getting on with our…
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Where Does Prepaid Credit Come From?
By Richard Lobwein as Chair of the TASA Education & Training Working Group. During discussions within a recent TASA online forum, the emotional temperature started to go up somewhat due to the raising…
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Local Assembly geographic jurisdiction
How self-governance chooses its own shape One of the practical questions that naturally arises as Local Assemblies form is: “What area does this assembly actually serve?” This is not a trivial question.…
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Holding Structure and Responsibility - Article 2
As Assemblies connect beyond the local level, the nature of the work begins to change. Local Assemblies are grounded in face-to-face relationships, immediate context and people helping people. At the local level,…
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People often ask how a Local Assembly should look in practice. Perhaps a better question might be: what does a Local Assembly feel like? Across Terra Australis, Local Assemblies are forming in…
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Assembly Dispute Resolution
An Ombudsman Service to Support Assemblies While We Build As our Local, State, and National Assemblies continue to form and find their feet, one thing remains constant: we are people learning to…
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A Guide to Governing Ourselves
A Plain-English Guide to How We Govern Ourselves Over the past few years, many of us have been doing the work of assembling. We’ve been meeting locally, forming committees, testing ideas, and…
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Assembling the People
Assembling the people is no small thing. It is the peaceful path to freedom. And our story began in earnest on this day — 12 January — two years ago. About a…
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Abundant Earth: A Quiet Remembering
Most of us have felt it at some point, even if we didn’t have words for it. Maybe it was standing in a garden, watching something grow where yesterday there was bare…
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