How do you like our Transition Assembly picture?

Created by amazing illustrator and screen-printer Imogen Donegan, we love how she’s captured the way the Assembly will bring us and the different threads of experience we hold together in a strong and vibrant pattern.

It’s just seven weeks away - and we’d love to see you there. If you or your group been invited to attend, you have until 17 January to book and claim your place. Then these tickets will be released to allow other people who are waiting for a space to attend.

Speak to us about anything that would support you to attend, including on-site childcare and bursary help with travel and accommodation costs.

Find out more and register here:
https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/TA2025/

#transition #transitiontown #community #climateaction #peoplesassembly

Outside the Court: The #PeoplesAssembly ended, and Indigenous leaders brought raw truths about climate impacts on their rights, voices the Court’s rigid structure has excluded.

Outside the Court: The #PeoplesAssembly ended, and Indigenous leaders brought raw truths about climate impacts on their rights, voices the Court’s rigid structure has excluded.

Outside the room, civil society organizations launched the #PeoplesAssembly, amplifying the voices of frontline communities - who cannot be inside the Court - demanding #ClimateAccountability. “How many human rights must be violated before States take meaningful action?"

Outside the Court, climate-vulnerable communities met for the 1st day of #PeoplesAssembly, which amplifies voices complementary to the ICJ climate proceedings. Today, we heard powerful statements from climate witnesses from Suriname, Kiribati, Vanuatu, India, Tuvalu & Sudan.

Desperate about politics as usual? We know the feeling...

Assemblies are one way that ordinary people are re-imagining how politics could be. In these times, the way we listen to one another, think creatively together and decide on our best next steps is crucial to do better.

Politics as usual deadens our ability to respond and care: new politics brings us together and uses processes that take us beyond polarisation into a deeper understanding of one another and our world.

Join us this evening at 7.30pm to hear more about how this could work where you live - and how the Transition Assembly in February could bring our movement together to re-imagine and re-create the future...

https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/what-is-an-assembly/

#citizenassembly #peoplesassembly #powertothepeople #democracy #transition #transitiontown #local #community

Disabled people set to protest demands of new Labour government
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/07/16/disabled-people-protest-18-july/

#McDonnell
#Disabled
#Labour
#UKGov
#DisabledPeopleDemo
#protest
#ChronicallyIll
#LongTermSick
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts
#RecoveryInTheBin
#Unite
#DisabilityAndMigrantNetwork
#DisabledPeopleDemand
#PeoplesAssembly

Latest #HopeGarden newsletter is out. Example of direct democracy, community meeting space at the heart of a wildlife #ForestGarden. Grant application goes in on Monday!

https://hopegarden.uk/blog/240305-newsletter/

#gardening #WildlifeGardening #CommunityAssembly #DirectDemocracy #PeoplesAssembly

Fantastic sight of #PeoplesAssembly facing off threats to #Democracy and #TrialbyJury #RoyalCourtsofJustice in London, UK

Anyone part of this anti-Tory organization fighting (including fighting while critiquing their approach still) please feel very welcome to comment

#ToriesCorruptToTheCore #PeoplesAssembly #suNakered

Join the Global #PeoplesAssembly 17-18 September and the session on #GlobalDemocracy and the UN in New York or online. The session continues a process of reflection and mobilization on participation and representation at the UN, featuring http://wethepeoples.org proposals: a UN World Citizens' Initiative, a UN Parliamentary Assembly and a UN Civil Society Envoy https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/events/global-peoples-assembly-session-on-global-democracy-and-the-un/

#introduction @buddhism
@vegan

Mahayana Refuge:
I go for refuge until I am enlightened
to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly.
Through the merit of practising generosity and so on,
May I become a Buddha for the benefit of all beings

Bodhicitta:
May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes, may all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes, may they be inseparable from the sublime happiness which is beyond sorrow, may all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of bias, attachment and anger.

Shantideva Prayer:
May I become at all times, both now and forever
A protector of those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way
A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need
For as long as space endures,
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I, too, abide
To dispel the misery of the world.

Biography:
I am a happily married English Buddhist, 68 years old, living these past 38 years in Slovenia. I was raised a Catholic and attended a Jesuit school but lost my faith in God when I was 15. After graduating in Industrial Engineering I traveled overland along the old hippie trail to India in search of answers to the pain I felt in the world. I encountered Buddhism in Dharamsala, home-in-exile of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Back in London I joined Sogyal Rinpoche's Rigpa group in 1981 and started practicing the Dharma.

I have been a production assistant in London, bartender in Hong Kong, English teacher in South Korea, planning engineer in London and Fife, Scotland, and a development engineer, planner, import-export agent and translator in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Besides being interested in living mindfully and preserving the Buddha Dharma, I am also an advocate of democracy, peace, non-violence, human and animal rights, a free Tibet, a democratic Burma, the right of Palestinians to a homeland, the prevention of human trafficking, gender equality, LGBTQI rights worldwide, veganism, the abolition of capital punishment, amnesty to prisoners of conscience, etc. I am also interested in supporting poverty alleviation and humanitarian work of any kind as well as sustainable development, education, protection of the environment and mental health and other health issues.

My Dharma practice comprises keeping the five precepts (mind trainings) for a lay Buddhist and practicing the six perfections (far-reaching practices) of Mahayana Buddhism - generosity, ethical conduct, forbearance, perseverance, concentration and, wisdom - as an aspiring Bodhisattva. I also like to consider myself a "socially engaged Buddhist" with my principle outlet being a keyboard campaigner for human, animal and environmental causes on social media and a vegan/animal rights activist locally.

As a part of keeping the five precepts, I practice veganism to the best of my ability and to the forefront of my practice I try to generate beginner's mind (don't know mind) as well as loving kindness and compassion both towards self and others.

Besides my favourite practice tonglen, my meditation these days is primarily of the analytical kind but always includes understanding that firstly, everyone wants to be be happy and avoid suffering and secondly, everyone has shown kindness to me in this life and past lives.

Politically I support The Green Party of England and Wales, the European Greens, American Democratic Socialists and the Levica (Left) Party in Slovenia

I am a vegan and don't smoke, drink alcohol or do drugs.

With my Slovene wife, Mojca, we have a son, Tom, now aged 37.

#buddhism #veganism #meditation #mahayana #humanrights #animalrights #socialjustice #environment #sustainability #climatechange #vegan #lgbtq ally #metoo #feminism #blm #refugeeswelcome #love #straightedge #buddhist #prointersectional #mindfulness #compassion #kindness #ecosocialism #green #progressive #community #refugees #migrants #left #levica #slovenia #ljubljana #socialmedia #bodhisattva #lojong #tonglen #bodhicitta #solarpunk #antifa #mentalhealth #health #sortition #directdemocracy #tibetanbuddhism #zen #animals #peoplesassembly #antiracism #antiableism #antispeciesism #rewilding #degrowth #climate #climateemergency

I would like to share with you my vegan story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlKvg0NbT4

Overall, 5 scientists were detained along with 100+ other activists yesterday in #Copenhagen, with 2 scientists arrested. We sung, danced, held a #PeoplesAssembly & showed that democratic and joyful alternatives exist. Tak ✊💚

#BefriJorden #TheScienceIsClear #dkpol n/n

Editorial: Enough is Enough and the People’s Assembly would be stronger together | Morning Star
#EnoughIsEnough
#PeoplesAssembly

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/enough-enough-and-peoples-assembly-would-be-stronger-together

Remember, remember the 5th of November

#London #PeoplesAssembly

The #peoplesassembly has spoken. With a watered down voice thanks to our fake democracy. We must end capitalism before it ends us. #climateemergency
Climate change: Tax frequent fliers, get rid of SUVs, government told - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54087176

For those in or near NC, USA - the next Moral March is in Raleigh, Feb 9th. This is an important event in North Carolina, that is part of a successful project to get a variety of Leftist legislation enacted (they've helped to increase the minimum wage, got the Racial Justice Act passed, and won the right for slaughterhouse workers to unionize, among other things) . More info - https://naacpnc.org/hkonj-peoples-assembly-coalition/ #NC #USA #NAACP #protest #peoplesassembly