Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
Popular Assembly
Sunday, April 19th
Los Angeles, MacArthur Park Rec Center 4-6PM

What is a Popular Assembly?

A popular assembly is a self-organized, autonomous, non-hierarchical group of people who come together to meet.

In many cases the assemblies are based geographically (by neighborhood, town, county, state, etc.).

The assemblies are inclusive and develop in process rather than being pre-planned.

Popular assemblies form as a furious alternative to electoral politics. In this era we see everywhere, including the United States , the ownership of elected officials by the large, usually transnational corporations.

It takes direct democracy to the participants and abandons the useless representative government – with good reason; “elected” or assumed (royal or dictatorial) governorship cannot respond to the needs of the ordinary people while simultaneously obeying the financial demands of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the corporations controlling social agendas, including health, educational and environmental agendas.

By definition, a people’s assembly (asamblea popular) must be anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal. The hierarchical structure of governments and corporations implies a boss and/or owner who benefits from the work of the people, hires and fires at will, and frequently owns or appropriates the national resources.

The assembly is composed of people who are being screwed and know it.

La Asamblea is not a political party and refuses ownership of political power apart from the social power which comes from below.

It is the counter to individualism; it is community of purpose and goal.

The force that holds it together must be a common goal and vision, not a particular cause.

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