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Escape the Matrix. Enter the Assembly.

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#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention
April 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Sortition: a whole new spin on gig work.

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#DxA
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April 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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But this is still OUR house. Through Citizen Assemblies, we can remodel and rebuild it, room by room, brick by brick.

It's time for a People's Constitutional Convention—where citizens, not politicians, redesign our democratic architecture.

#DemocracyByAssembly #TakeBackOurHouse #PeoplesConvention
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
generalmonkey.bsky.social
The least civil disobedience against the federal government that nearly everyone could participate in would be to not file taxes this year. Consider it step one of the National Strike.

We need to organize a comprehensive list of demands - #PeoplesConvention - that prevent resurgence of tyranny.
A taxonomy of political action Acts of Omission (political, social, and economic noncooperation) Strikes and Walk-outs (workers) Boycotts and Embargoes (consumers and buyers) Tax and Debt Refusal (taxpayers and debtors) Conscientious Objection (military and draftees) Shunning and Excommunication (community and society) Civil Disobedience (citizens) Mutiny and Insubordination (government and military) Withdrawal and Emigration (various) Other Noncooperation (economic and social) Acts of Commission (confronting power and building resistance)(in order by safest/most-people-required) Lobbying (to power) Petitions, Declarations Pressuring Individuals or Groups Protests and Symbolic Acts (to public) Fasts Bearing Witness Lockdowns Education and Awareness Raising (to public) Propaganda Agitation Organizing Rallies Theatre Art and Spectacles Support Work and Building Alternatives Social Welfare, Mutual Aid, and Support Systems Permaculture Food Systems Alternative Building Alternative Healing Off-the-grid Work Conflict Resolutions Alternative Economics Capacity Building and Operations Logistics and Communications Transportation (including escape, evasion, and safehouses) Fundraising and Tithing Security Culture Research and Reconnaissance Coordination with Allies and Sponsors Direct Confrontation and Conflict Obstruction and Occupation (nondestructive) Reclamation and Expropriation Land Seizure "Liberation" of Supplies and Equipment Property and Material Destruction (threats or acts) Violence Against Humans (threats or acts) Self-defense Offensive
February 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. www.AssembleAmerica.org

#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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How do we build a new house for American democracy? The blueprint was laid 2,500 years ago.

#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention

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Why Greece Was Great
And How America Could Be Too
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April 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Citizen Assemblies break this cycle through democratic lottery — like jury duty but for ideas.

Teachers. Veterans. Nurses. People like us, deciding for us.

Join our quest for a People's Convention by 2030

#DemocracyByAssembly #TakeBackOurHouse #CitizensAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🔥TOXIC TRIBALISM🔥

Partisan politics turn neighbors into enemies:

• Family dinners ruined by arguments

• Communities divided by signs

• Issues reduced to slogans

Citizen Assemblies bring Americans together to listen

Imagine politics that heals, not hurts

#DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"When fundamental changes to a government are needed, who should get to make them? Elites and politicians who benefit from keeping things as they are? Or We the People?"

#DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention #Sortition #Democracy #CitizensAssembly

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The People's Convention
It's Time to Upgrade the Constitution
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May 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Two years ago, our own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social made the case for Democracy by Assembly.

DxA “would amount to a revolution,” he says. “And like all revolutions, it begins in the mind.”

#CitizensAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #Sortition

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The Case for Abolishing Elections - Boston Review
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Our Executive Director, @nickcoccoma.bsky.social, has a new article out in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social with Roshan Bliss of @ncdd.bsky.social on how citizen assemblies can help rewrite the Constitution.

#PeoplesConvention #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA

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How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Rebuild the House of American Democracy—Before It’s Demolished
The house of the American republic is tottering. Once unthinkable, it’s now undeniable that our shared home has deteriorated the same way you go broke: gradually, then suddenly. At the time it was bui...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The process is simple but powerful:
Lotteries select participants who truly represent the community → Information builds understanding → Deliberation finds common ground

Join us as we build toward a People's Constitutional Convention!

#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
generalmonkey.bsky.social
We need a comprehensive list of demands that include not just needed first-order societal changes but also preventative measures against the circumstances that have led to this. We need well-defined economic, judicial, and political reforms popular enough compel participation. #PeoplesConvention
January 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"Sortition does not merely offer a more demographically representative body," writes our team member, Paul.
"It provides a superior epistemic engine."

Read all of his enlightening new piece!

#DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #Sortition #Democracy

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees
How Randomly Selected Citizens Can Fix Government's Hazy Vision
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May 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
Anyone listening to Chris Hedges telling them to vote Green at the #PeoplesConvention and not for Biden in order to beat Donald Trump is basically listening to a chaos agent of state-sponsored Russian television (weaponized by Putin).

Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2024 at 11:42 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
Chris Hedges tells people to vote Green in 2020 at
#PeoplesConvention. Hedges makes his living working for Russia Today. He attended an elite boarding school and colleges, including Harvard. He lives in Princeton, NJ whose median home costs $833,000 and is predominantly white.
November 21, 2024 at 11:36 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
So, it's no surprise that Chris Hedges started his RT show "On Contact" in the summer of 2016 and that one of his first shows was on the hurdles faced by 3rd party politicians (don't forget he was one of Nader's speech writer in 2000) #PeoplesConvention
November 21, 2024 at 11:47 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
Biggest casualty of #PeoplesConvention: Bernie Sanders

Seems that like Victor Frankenstein, Bernie couldn't control the monster he created and so it turned on him.
November 21, 2024 at 11:36 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
#PeoplesConvention why is Nina Turner standing underneath a picture of herself taped to the wall?
November 21, 2024 at 11:36 PM
receiptmaven.bsky.social
#PeoplesConvention has a lot of paid trolls https://https://t.co/ZKAkrSbUab
November 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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7/7 Same principle as Free Our Feeds: distribute power, prevent capture, serve the people. Time to assemble. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #CitizensAssembly #FreeOurFeeds
June 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Brooks calls for a new vision. Democracy by Assembly is it. America, Assemble! People’s Constitutional Convention!

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#DxA #CitizensAssemblies #PeoplesConvention
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April 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Brooks calls for a new vision. Democracy by Assembly is it. America, Assemble! People’s Constitutional Convention!

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#DxA #CitizensAssemblies #PeoplesConvention
Assemble America
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April 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Democracy IS efficient. Politicians are not. Conclusion: Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. www.AssembleAmerica.org

#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. AssembleAmerica.org

#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
April 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM