Power-to-the-People Webinar “All aboard! – How can citizen assemblies shape our democracies?”

This next “Power to the People” webinar will introduce the European Peoples’ Assembly, set up by the Democratic Odyssey, which will start on 27th September in Athens. The initiative is supported by a broad coalition that includes Another Europe is Possible, European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Citizens Takeover Europe, and ECI Campaign.

Speakers are:
Art O’Leary, Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission of Ireland who has organized the Ireland’s assembly on abortion rights
Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, Chair in Global Affairs at the Florence School of Transnational Governance and co-lead of the Democratic Odyssey project
Niccolo Milanese, founding director of European Alternatives, a civil society organisation promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state
Sarah Händel, Board member of Mehr Demokratie e.V., one of Germany’s leading NGOs for deliberative democracy
Brett Hennig, Co-founder and director of the Sortition Foundation, campaigning to institute the use of democratic lotteries (also called sortition) in government
Alexiane Terrochaire – – Barbançon, Executive Board Member of the Young European Federalists (JEF Europe)
Clare Farrell (tbc), co-founder and spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion
David Van Reybrouck (tbc), writer, playwright, journalist, archaeologist and historian who founded the G1000 initiative, which campaigns for democratic innovation in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.
A citizen representative from the EU’s Conference on the Future of Europe (tbc)

The event will be interpreted in English, German, Greek, Italian, French, Czech, Portuguese, Polish, Lithuanian and Bulgarian.