Neighborhood Assemblies and Neighborhood Communes

Direct, face-to-face democratic institutions where residents of a local area (a neighborhood, block, or housing complex) gather to make binding decisions on matters affecting their immediate community. A Neighborhood Assembly is the general deliberative body—the town hall for local issues. A Neighborhood Commune is the more radical form where this assembly assumes direct political and economic control, managing shared resources (gardens, tools, childcare), security, and dispute resolution, often operating on principles of consensus and mutual aid. They are laboratories of hyper-local self-governance, bypassing traditional municipal bureaucracy.

Example: After the city repeatedly fails to repair a dangerous intersection, residents of the Oak Street block form a Neighborhood Assembly. They meet monthly in a garage. They vote to install a community-funded traffic calming plan. This evolves into a Neighborhood Commune: they pool money to buy tools for a communal garden in a vacant lot, organize a rotating schedule for elderly care, and run a local security patrol. They've created a micro-polity based on direct participation, making the city government largely irrelevant for their daily lives. Neighborhood Assemblies and Neighborhood Communes.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Local Assemblies and Local Communes

Scaled-up versions of neighborhood systems, encompassing a larger district like a village, town, or city ward. Local Assemblies are the sovereign decision-making bodies for that territory, potentially federating with other assemblies. Local Communes are the implementation of communist or anarchist principles at this scale, where the assembly collectively owns and manages major local resources (housing, utilities, workshops), abolishes private property in favor of usership, and organizes production for local need. They represent a vision of politics as a daily, participatory activity rather than a spectacle every few years.

Example: In a small de-industrialized town, the city council is corrupt and powerless. Citizens form a Local Assembly in the old union hall, open to all residents. It becomes the real governing body. They transition to a Local Commune by taking over a shuttered factory to run it co-operatively, converting empty homes into communal housing based on need, and creating a local currency for trade with other communes. The police are replaced by community peacekeepers accountable to the assembly. The commune becomes a self-sufficient, directly democratic cell. Local Assemblies and Local Communes.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

the virgin assembly

A group chat filled with....Swank, cancer, dankness, sweet sweet anal, and casual rape jokes

Did you know that the virgin assembly gave me sweet sweet testicular cancer.

by Soiler04 January 13, 2017

internet language assimilation

The subconscious reaction with online chatters ,whom are speaking in different audible accents , to assimilate language which varies from their own and towards other accents. Different dialects of the English language can sometimes assimilate when groups or individuals meet in international chatrooms or media platforms.This occurs when there are commonalities and familiarization between people IE slang words used by American chatters such as DUDE and YALL become common words for all in the chatroom.

Internet language assimilation is a common but largely unrecognized phenomenon that all international voice chatters are guilty of.

by Islalover November 19, 2019

Day 1 Assembly

The assembly where people suffer less and can actually sit down, still have to clap AS HARD AS Day 4 assembly though.

Day 1 assembly? NOT AGAIN

by THE_GUY_WITH_A🍆 December 29, 2023

Ritupon Baishya from Guwahati Assam India

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Hey Ritupon Baishya from Guwahati Assam India have you changed your mind on having diy male to female surgery with me?

by Noapoleon May 29, 2024

Hip hop Assimilation

When you are normal into a certain style of music and look; and want to explore into Hip Hop culture and music.

Thing 1: You listen to country music?

Thing 2: Yes I do but lately I want to know more about Hip Hop culture. I hear it's fascinating.
Thing 1: Here sign these papers so you can take the Hip Hop Assimilation class and learn about Hip Hop properly.
Thing 2: Is there a registration fee?
Thing1: 50 dollars when turned in on time. 100 dollars late registration. Food will be provided.

by T.h.o.t Conscience 1185 again March 29, 2025