Working notes / Jan Baykara

There was a public meeting of about 200 Your Party Glasgow supporters on Friday, 5th September at the Renfield Centre in town, organised by volunteers from the WhatsApp group, including myself. Tickets (required because of worries over venue and facilitation team capacity) ran out within 24 hours. There were also plenty of people who showed up without tickets. The meeting began with a short 'working agreement' introduction, was followed by a speech composed of peoples' online submissions. 20 gr...

Max Shanly's written a good long thing for it: https://medium.com/@maxshanly/born-for-life-or-marked-for-death-a12d87220e42 Whilst I didn't have time to finalise it, here's some sketches I began towards some explanatory graphics, in case these are useful to anyone. (Illustrator-editable PDF here.) Key aspects Sequencing Read the full proposal here: https://medium.com/@maxshanly/born-for-life-or-marked-for-death-a12d87220e42 ...

My understanding now is that Roger Hallam's involvement in Your Party isn't so straightforward nor so bounded. It sounds like the synthesis he's found with James Schneidder is for the 10 x 1000 regional assemblies to engage in constitutional design—to be decided/approved by Thursday 4th. (The only alternative founding process I've heard published is Max Shanly's.) For these regional assemblies, he's started at the end point, then worked backwards to clarify 4 stages of role recruiting and setup...