Our wards are diverse and include people from different races, ethnicities and nationalities, people with varying education and income, people who speak different languages and practice different religious faiths, people with different gender orientations and sexualities, and people who have different strengths and physical abilities.
We can’t hope to build a more just and equal ward if we are unable to transform how we organise ourselves so that more people are able to join in, be active and take on leadership roles (and not just men, for example!)
This is not just about representivity, but calls on us to think carefully about how we organise practically and how we are able to diffuse the power that comes with decision making, knowl- edge, and access to resources so that it is better distributed between people.
That means investing in a set of principles and using creative and practical tools to ensure that everybody is able to contribute in a meaningful way and be included in the deliberations and decision making.
