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MISTICA: WWDemocracy

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 12:10:02 AST

>To: [email protected]
>From: claire shearman <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:26:30 +0100
>Subject: [Globalcn2000] WWDemocracy
>
>...
> >Greetings from Roy Madron and John Jopling on behalf of the WWDemocracy
> >Network. This is a new network. Its purpose is to open up a world-wide
> debate
> >about the need for, and the essential components of a new paradigm of
> >democracy. A fuller account of why we are setting it up can be found at
> >www.wwdemocracy.org
> >We are emailing everyone we think might be interested.
> >The Network will publish a Quarterly Newsletter: we are including the
> >front page of the first issue below.
> >
> >If you think other people or organisations or lists will be interested
> >in what we are doing, please forward our material to them.
>
>
> >Roy Madron and John Jopling March 2002
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >FRONT PAGE OF THE FIRST WWDEMOCRACY QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
> >The WWDemocracy Network's First Quarterly Newsletter
> >March 2002
> >Welcome to the WWDemocracy Network. This is the first of the Quarterly
> >Newsletters which will chart the progress of the network.
> >The need for a WWDemocracy Network emerged during our three-week stay in
> >Brazil as delegates to the World Social Forum 2002 in Porto Alegre. As
> >we reflected upon the Forum, on our own workshop, on our conversations
> >with other delegates and citizens of Porto Alegre, and on their
> >`Participative Budget' it became clear what we should do.
> >There is a multitude of people around the world who are deeply
> >dissatisfied with the current paradigm of democracy. They would like to
> >be able to contribute to the development of a new paradigm of democracy
> >and citizenship. We have set up the WWDemocracy Network to link them
> >together in a process of mutual learning: what is the new paradigm? and
> >how can it be realised?
> >This newsletter contains the following items:
> >* Introducing the WWDemocracy Network
> >* Report of WWDemocracy's workshop held as part of the second World
> >Social Forum at Porto Alegre, Brazil
> >* Impressions of the World Social Forum 2002.
> >* The Participative Budget process as operated in Porto Alegre, Rio
> >Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo, Campinas, Belo Horizonte and over 100 other
> >cities and states in Brazil

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