General

A community advocacy assembly is an umbrella assembly which

• has reserved membership to a specific marginalised community

• therefore has the remit to speak exclusively for that community within the party through the development of consensus within its body (or bodies).

An example of this is the Disability Activism Society. That assembly has membership reserved only to people who identify as disabled, and has the remit to make all decisions relating to party policy, building mutual aid networks, producing party statements in reaction to current events or government policy, or just about anything else relating to disability and disabled people.

No other assembly may alter the decisions of the DAS (or any of its assemblies), provided those decisions are constitutional - its decisions on all disability matters are final, and this is true of all community advocacy assemblies.

Community advocacy assemblies are "umbrella assemblies" because they can form assemblies along geographic lines, too, to enable focused local action as well as national: these have names that vary according to the preferences of consensus of each umbrella assembly, but might be called chapters or branches to distinguish them from the Constituency Society's geographical assemblies. These branches or chapters can combine to produce the national assembly on big national issues - or, with fewer involved, in more regional issues too.

This ensures that marginalised communities speak in their own voices and at the time and in the manner of their own choosing.

In short: nothing about you without you.