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MAJOR POWERS should be devolved to local communities, argues a new declaration launched today [23 June] at the #Democracy21 conference in Glasgow.


♲ @CommonSpace.scot (Unofficial) (commonspace@f.praschnig.com): ‘An unstoppable challenge to the centralised status quo’: Scottish civil society launches Declaration on Local Democracy at #Democracy21 www.commonspace.scot/articles/…
#scotland #democracy

@edinburghedwards Thanks, Mike. This is the sort of thing I was really hoping we'd use Scottish political Mastodon for!

@social.yyy.scot/@simon_brooke Thanks Simon, I agree heartely. Seems quite necessary to try and connect outside the corporate controlled social media. I've found it really hard to bring others over with me though!

@edinburghedwards We need to build a conversation here; once there is a conversation which is interesting, others will join it. But...

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke

@edinburghedwards Part of my evil masterplan is this. I'm building a canvassing app for the campaign. Part of what activists will get when they sign up for the app will be a Mastodon account. That should bring thousands of activists over.