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Issue No: 317, December 2015

The Residents' Assembly Service: Its Vision and Evolution

Inside the RAS: From left, Slava, Inge and volunteer Christa The Residents’ Assembly Service (RAS) facilitates the decision-making process of the Residents’ Assembly (RA). The current team is the third since it was set up. Over the years, the vision and the role of the RAS have changed as new teams replaced older ones. Here, former RAS member Rakhal and current members Inge and Slava share some of the RAS’ history, its present role and their plans for the future.   The history of the RAS The RAS, says Rakhal, was created around 2004 and its role, at first, was rather limited. It was to organize the decision-making process of the RA, count votes and announce the outcome. Over the years, the group also got involved in the facilitation of meetings. The second team, in which Rakhal participated, evolved the role of the RAS by attempting to organize new ways of meeting. One of their experiments was called ‘the RA gathering’, an event during which people were not on...
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Issue No. 317, December 2015

  • Farewell Matters
  • Death and Dying - Do we need to talk about it?
  • About Testaments
  • The Mother and Sri Aurobindo on Death
  • Promoting Poor Girls' Education in the Villages
  • Project Beneficiaries
  • ALICE in STEM Land
  • Craftsmen of Chocolate
  • Twinning Auroville and Pondicherry as Fair Trade Towns
  • New Books
  • Saturday Market Reopens
  • The Residents' Assembly Service: Its Vision and Evolution
  • The 'Active Residents Assembly' Intitiative
  • Anand Agrawal (Passing)

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