> Hmm. I don't have an answer. I posted about the neighborhood assembly
> idea in Barcelona because I could see it work here in Berkeley. Berkeley
> elects its city council based on a rough approximation of neighborhoods.
> For years the north of campus council members were basically a liberal
> front for property owners, one woman in particular Shirley Dean. So it
> has its down side.
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You are looking for The Secret of political action. It doesn't exit. There is no one strategy (except perhaps for a few banalities) that will be good for all occasions. It is empty to say this tactc or this strategy is right in absdtracton from some particular context, some particular purpose, some particular resources, etc. All one can say is that sometimes neighborhoods are good to work in; sometimes they are not. So?
Carrol