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Help Save Local Democracy
ROD WEBB Hastings Assembles started last year as an attempt to get more people actively involved in meeting, discussing and organising for change in our local communities and in reaction…
Hastings Assembles in St Leonards
ROD WEBB The first town meeting of Hastings Assembles was held at the Stade in June this year, prompted by a generalised dissatisfaction with the lack of political choice in…
Taking Power Back through Community Conversation
MERLIN BETTS Despite the abysmal state of our national politics, last Sunday (16 June) I felt like there was a bit of electricity in the air, a sparkle in the…
Hastings Assembles: A Different Politics
FELICITY LAURENCE As we approach the general election, here in the swing seat of Hastings and Rye there is a growing swell of unease and even distrust about many aspects…