<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Isabel Carlisle</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isabel.carlisle@me.com">isabel.carlisle@me.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM<br>Subject: My blog on the Commons Assembly for Transition Network<br>To: <a href="mailto:commonswatch@lists.p2pfoundation.net">commonswatch@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular">Dear All</div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular"><br></div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular">This blog has just been published: <a href="https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/transition-commons-freeing-imaginations/" target="_blank">https://<wbr>transitionnetwork.org/news-<wbr>and-blog/transition-commons-<wbr>freeing-imaginations/</a></div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular">Apologies in avance for any inaccuracies or failings…. do post on the thread beneath the blog to continue discussions. </div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular"><br></div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular">Greetings from rainy Totnes!</div><div style="font-family:Optima-Regular">Isabel </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Isabel Carlisle</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Tel: <a href="tel:1803" value="+661803" target="_blank">01803</a> 847976</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Mobile: 07775566648</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></i></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>“Quite simply, there can be no true democracy unless the citizens of a country realise that they are sovereign, that they are the main protagonists, and then with wisdom and a strong sense of responsibility take action based on that realisation.<br></i></font><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><i><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">Democracy cannot be successful in</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">its mission unless the people rouse</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">themselves to become more</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">informed and involved, unless they</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">unite, unless they establish an</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">unshakable force for justice and</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">keep a strict eye on the activities of</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">the powerful.”</span></i></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Daisaku Ikeda</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Arial"><br></div><p class="m_-8650684119562755476MsoBodyText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></p></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="m_-8650684119562755476Apple-interchange-newline">
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