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Peoples Movement Assembly

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Not seeing significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. The long list of references is composed nearly exclusively of primary sources or non-RS sources that do not attest notability; of the three reliable secondary sources, two (Michigan Citizen and The Guardian) don't discuss the topic, instead covering individual meetings or projects; the Guardian mention, like the Affinities mention, is also trivial –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

• Delete Very few book hits and no news hits, and of the few references I checked, none of them claim to be a PMA. This appears to be a neologism which hasn't caught on (yet). Mangoe (talk) 02:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

• Keep Changes have been made to the article content and references such that there are now a greater number of book and news references. Septima2011 (talk) 20:30, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Two of the three books are not independent sources (ie. the authors are affiliated, they use the term "we"), and the other references continue to be trivial. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

• Keep

Responses to concerns re:

References cover individual meetings or projects

As demonstrated in the change in the first paragraph, “Peoples Movement Assemblies are community meetings have been used across the United States”. These meetings (or assemblies) have connections and common underlying approaches but are built upon issues connected to specific geographic areas or themes. While individual Peoples Movement Assemblies have a common framework, they are also unique. As such, examining the individual assemblies provides an opportunity to understand specific examples of the assembly in action.

The following coverage, which focuses on specific assemblies, offers significant contribution to an understanding of Peoples Movement Assemblies as a whole through illustrating specific examples of how they are enacted. (1) The Michigan Citizen, April 17 2011, Patrick Geans, "The People's Movement: Community response to Detroit Works Project", retrieved October 11 2011 from http://michigancitizen.com/the-peoples-movement-community-response-to-detroit-works-project-p9708-1.htm (http://michigancitizen.com/the-peoples-movement-community-response-to-detroit-works-project-p9708-1.htm) This Michigan Citizen article outlines a specific Peoples Movement Assembly. It provides insight into the way in which a Peoples Movement Assembly is being used through focusing on the specific issues around discussed at the assembly and the approach that is being used through the Peoples Movement Assembly.

(4) Inter Press Service News Agency, January 28 2009, M Cardinale, "Evictions High on Atlanta Agenda", retrieved October 19 2011 from http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40950

This article outlines a specific Peoples Movement Assembly. It specifically describes the ways in which Peoples Movement Assemblies fit into other political actions. In doing so, this article provides concrete examples, and, in doing so, deeper understanding of the use of the Peoples Movement Assembly.

Significant coverage in reliable secondary sources

The following coverage in reliable secondary sources focuses entirely on a Peoples Movement Assembly and/or the Peoples Movement Assembly process.

(1) The Michigan Citizen, April 17 2011, Patrick Geans, "The People's Movement: Community response to Detroit Works Project", retrieved October 11 2011 from http://michigancitizen.com/the-peoples-movement-community-response-to-detroit-works-project-p9708-1.htm

See explanation above regarding coverage of a specific Peoples Movement Assembly in this article.

The Michigan Citizen has been published every Sunday on a weekly basis since November of 1978 (http://michigancitizen.com/index86.htm). It can be purchased at 343 locations (http://michigancitizen.com/index107.htm).

(4) Inter Press Service News Agency, January 28 2009, M Cardinale, "Evictions High on Atlanta Agenda", retrieved October 19 2011 from http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40950

See explanation above regarding coverage of a specific Peoples Movement Assembly in this article.

Inter Press Service News Agency has been operating since 1964 (http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-mission/). It has regional centers in Latin America, African, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America and headquarters in Rome (http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-history/). “. Stories produced by the IPS News Service and Columnist Service are reproduced by more than 5,000 print and online media all over the world, in 138 countries. In addition, IPS radio news is sent directly to over 2,000 radio stations, networks and individual listeners.” (http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-audiences/). IPS-managed web sites collectively generate over 50 million page views per month

(13) ZNet, July 8 2007, J. Rebick, "U.S. Social Forum: The view from Canada", http://www.zcommunications.org/u-s-social-forum-the-view-from-canada-by-judy-rebick

This article is authored by Judy Rebick, who is a Canadian journalist. She was the publisher of rabble.ca from 2001-2005. She was a regular commentator on CBC TV's Sunday Report and CBC Radio. She was the co-host of a prime time debate show called Face Off on CBC Newsworld from 1994–1998. She was also a columnist with Elm Street Magazine, London Free Press, and on CBC Online. (Wikipedia_

(15) The Richmond Register has been a local news source since 1917.

(23) Michigan Messenger is published by The American Independent News Network From the launch of our first site in July 2006 through June 2011, AINN has tallied:

• 39.7 million unique visitors on sites.
• 1,728 direct citations of our reporters in newspapers and periodicals.
• 930 appearances by our reporters on TV and radio.
• All told, our reporters generated over 960.4 million impressions on TV, radio, and newspapers. (http://michiganmessenger.com/about)

(29) A very well known newspaper, The Guardian was founded in 1821 and by March 2001 GU had over 2.4 million unique users, making it the most popular UK newspaper website. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnm-archive/2002/jun/06/1) Septima2011 (talk) 21:19, 20 October 2011 (UTC)