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
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