Your local community is the basis for a better society, get together, talk, organise and shape your community the way you want it to be for you and your kids. It can only be done if we meet up and discuss our ideas, free from the influence and pressure of authority. How do you build a better society if we don't come together and talk about the how, why, and where, the nuts and bolts of what we really want. Let's discuss tomorrow, today.
Make a date for Tuesday June 30th. 978 Govan Road, bring along the community you want.
Come along to the Portal, Plantation Productions, on Tuesday night,
help us to start thinking about building new models of community
participation, value systems, and a knowledge base of things folk need
to know, learn and share to counter austerity and win things.
As many other communities have shown us, the rewards of community-run
assets & spaces are huge (i.e. reigniting community spirit, ensuring
sustainable management of resources & ensuring much needed spaces
and services continue to exist). However, as many other communities have
learned (and shared), the process of collectively governing a community
asset is a complex and challenging one with many obstacles – practical,
relational and political.
In order to navigate these
challenges as effectively as possible we believe that a process of
structured knowledge-sharing, learning and research needs to take place
in the community by the community to figure out the what, how and why,
of building and rebuilding community structure, resources and
representative institutions. We can build, through Participatory Action
Research, (PAR) the knowledge, strength and vision needed to really take
these kinds of projects forward.
It has taken many hours
months and years to put this project together. It is time to put it to
into action. It is wide enough in scope and adaptability. What we offer
is a framework. What you hang on it will go towards reclaiming the
commons and the hope of a decent future – If we are willing to fight for
it.
PAR Volunteer information session:
Tuesday 30th June 5:30-6:30 pm
Film Night - Conversation
– The Secret History of our Streets
30 June 7 -9:00
Plantation Productions
The Portal
978 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 3AJ
All info on Website:
https://commgood.wordpress.com/
https://commgood.wordpress.com/participatory-action-research/
Visit ann arky's home at
www.radicalglasgow.me.uk
