ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that initial campaigns will focus on organising low paid workers to gain a living wage in targeted workplaces, support the campaign to get undocumented workers legally recognised, develop a Citizens Charter to address the city’s ‘wealth gap’ and a wide ranging exercise to draw out the views of Leeds Citizens for future campaigns. Citizens assemblies of everyone gathered together are the new politics of effective pressure and accountability. Bringing large groups of a wide range of institutions together with clear policy demands based on personal experiential stories and deep listening campaigns can call politicians and power to account in public. Building power also means developing confidence, with new leaders emerging, stepping forward to speak up, undergoing training and celebrating community and policy successes. Political renewal through community organising in our cities may take on newer and more imaginative forms and take longer than London manifestations.
