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In ten days time, a new grouping meets up to consider possible ways forward:
Devon United - Doing Democracy Differently
For our launch event on 4 October we will be joined by Paul Hilder, co-founder ofwww.OpenDemocracy.net, 38 Degrees and Crowdpac, and former global campaigns director for Avaaz and www.Change.org We have asked him to share his insights on how people can make real change happen.
We will also be joined by Indra Adnan who is the director of Soft Power http://softpowernetwork.ning.com/ and an associate member of Compass.
We are fed up with our communities being sidelined by our councils and having no voice in the decisions that affect us. We are being ignored about the loss of our community hospitals, care units and services for our young people. We have no voice in planning decisions that see enormous estates being built around our small country towns. Towns that do not have the infrastructure to cope and houses that are unaffordable to local people. We are not being consulted over Devolution. Enough is enough.
Because we care about our Devon communities we are taking action so that we can elect accountable, transparent and open County Councillors to represent our views at next year’s County Council elections in May 2017.
At the event we will discuss how we would like our politicians to operate, how we can identify the best candidates and support them to stand and how we can work together to campaign and organise in our communities to make plans and find inspiration to make our county work for everyone.
Come along and let's Do Democracy Differently!
Devon United - Doing Democracy Differently Tickets, Tue, 4 Oct 2016 at 18:00 | Eventbrite
And on Facebook:
Devon United - Doing Democracy Differently | Facebook
And from the East Devon Alliance:
NEW FACEBOOK GROUP: DEVON UNITED – DOING DEMOCRACY DIFFERENTLY
13 SEP 2016
Inaugural Meeting: Tue 4 October 2016 18:00 – 21:30
Newton Abbot Races Ltd
Newton Road
Kingsteignton
“Everyone very welcome – Paul Hilder is coming to talk to us all about localism and retaking democracy and there will be lots of discussion about the next county elections and how we can unite to be a challenge.”
Free tickets can be obtained via:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devon-united-doing-democracy-differently-tickets-27679676658
“Devon United is a group of local people who want to see a change in the way our elected County Councillors work and represent us and believe that moving beyond party politics is the way to do it.
We will be joined by Paul Hilder, co-founder of OpenDemocracy.net and CrowdPac and former global campaigns director for Avaaz and Change.org who will share his insights on how people can make real change happen.
We are fed up of our communities being sidelined by our councils and having no voice in the decisions that affect our communities. We are being ignored about the loss of our community hospitals, care units and services for our young people, ignored over planning decisions that see enormous estates being built around our small country towns that do not have the infrastructure to cope and are unaffordable to local people, ignored and misled over devolution and enough is enough.
We want to put our communities first and elect accountable, transparent and open County Councillors to represent our views at next years County Council elections.
We will discuss how we would like our politicians to operate, how we can identify the best candidates and how we can work together to campaign and organise in our communities to make plans and find inspiration to make our county work for everyone.”
Come along and let’s Do Democracy Differently
New Facebook Group: Devon United – Doing Democracy Differently | East Devon Watch
See also:
Crowdpac | Giving politics back to people
Paul Hilder | openDemocracy
And:
Soft power: Britain is losing its grip on this key asset | Indra Adnan | Opinion | The Guardian
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