Organizer @KaliAkuno speaking about the People's Assembly of Jackson, Mississippi at the @BardCollege @Arendt_Center conference on Revitalizing Democracy: increasing Black political power puts the brakes on some forms of oppression but not economic oppression. 
Akuno adds: the People's Assembly seems to work best when attendees are majority women. When it's a male majority, the conversation often falters.
The @Arendt_Center conference is on sortition and the theory & practice of enhancing democracy through citizen assemblies. It is being live-streamed here hac.bard.edu/conferences/?e…
Now @petermacleod is joining from Ontario to discuss lessons from citizen assemblies in Canada
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