<div>I excerpt Tiberius from the thread forwarded below :</div><div><br></div><div><i>" The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new economy, in which the production and distribution of value is open and decentralized. The <a href="http://www.sensorica.co/" target="_blank">open enterprise</a> and <a href="http://www.metacurrency.org/" target="_blank">alternative currencies</a> are the most important pieces of this puzzle. "</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>" I am busy creating an alternative to the bloody corporation. See <a href="http://www.sensorica.co/" target="_blank">SENSORICA</a></i></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
<i>and <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network" target="_blank">Multitude Innovation</a>, follow development on my <a href="http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Discovery Network blog</a>. "</i></div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">a few more links shared on this thread of the coalition list , such as<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html">http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html</a></div>
</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html"></a>and other links, such as this one from the p2pf blog which was mentionned</div><div>
<br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23" target="_blank"></a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Forwarded conversation</span><br>
Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername"><Coalition> Spanish Revolution and open organising</b><br>------------------------<br><br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Darren Hill</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@vegburner.co.uk">mail@vegburner.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:20 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Been enthused by the events in Spain<br>
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If you've not been watching you can check my twitter stream for details -<br>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Dazinism" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/#!/Dazinism</a><br>
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I've been struck by the open organisation and thought people here may find it interesting.<br>
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<a href="https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/" target="_blank">https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/</a><br>
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To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Been networking with some of the people involved in the Egyptian uprising. They are unshakably focused on actions not words. At a meeting at MIT tonight, they were looking at how to provide real relief for the poorest of the poor. I have talked a little with one student leader and emailed another about the possibility of using simple solar and Solar IS Civil Defense tools and tactics to do just that. It just may be that the uprisings of the Arab Spring can jump start sustainable development from the refugee camps and slums on up.<br>
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With the addition of Spain to the mix, these uprisings are clearly an anti-corporate globalism movement and a person-to-person globalism movement.<div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Tim Rayner</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@timrayner.net">tim@timrayner.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br>Cc: George Mokray <<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>><br></font><br>
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Pam Mc shared this link via Skype. Well worth reading. People are
swarming in Spanish.<br>
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<a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23</a><div>
<div></div></div></div><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Joe Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>I'm playing around with a set of ideas for a blog post about the deeper patterns driving this global phenomenon... in particular the convergence of global consciousness among the youth and the powerful tools of open collaboration that have emerged with the internet, mobile, and social media revolutions.<div>
<br></div><div>The various populist uprisings across the globe in the last seven months can be seen as isolated or -- if we are to accelerate the pace of change -- described as a cascade of democratic waves that are sweeping across the globe. But we'll need institutional structures that can contain them (in the form of some kind of global federalist system) that preserves open communication and trust through shared governance.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is an opportunity for scaling solutions that have been in nascent form for decades...</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br>Joe</div><div><br clear="all">--<br>Joe Brewer<br>Founder & Director<br>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">George Mokray</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:59 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Every participant I've heard is very clearly cognizant that these are linked movements. Almost all of them have expressed real solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the Middle East and, to me, implied solidarity with people kept from social, political, and economic power all around the world.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Notes on the Arab Spring at <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring</a><br>
This was written over a week ago and will give you some of my preliminary impressions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure that we need institutional structures rather than effective methodologies of mass connection.</div>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Joe Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:40 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Effective methodologies for mass connection ARE a form of institutional structure. The topology of organizations is going through a paradigm shift and will look very different in the next cycle...<div>
<br></div><font color="#888888"><div>- Joe</div>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mark Roest</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>, Ben de Vries <<a href="mailto:bendevries1968@gmail.com">bendevries1968@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Bill Veltrop <<a href="mailto:billveltrop@comcast.net">billveltrop@comcast.net</a>>, Darren Hill <<a href="mailto:mail@vegburner.co.uk">mail@vegburner.co.uk</a>>, George Mokray <<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a>, Tim Rayner <<a href="mailto:tim@timrayner.net">tim@timrayner.net</a>>, Pamela McLean <<a href="mailto:pamela.mclean@dadamac.net">pamela.mclean@dadamac.net</a>>, Joe Brewer <<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>Second of 3 (or 4)<div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mark Roest</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>, Ben de Vries <<a href="mailto:bendevries1968@gmail.com">bendevries1968@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Bill Veltrop <<a href="mailto:billveltrop@comcast.net">billveltrop@comcast.net</a>>, Darren Hill <<a href="mailto:mail@vegburner.co.uk">mail@vegburner.co.uk</a>>, George Mokray <<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a>, Tim Rayner <<a href="mailto:tim@timrayner.net">tim@timrayner.net</a>>, Pamela McLean <<a href="mailto:pamela.mclean@dadamac.net">pamela.mclean@dadamac.net</a>>, Joe Brewer <<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>3rd of 3 or 4<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div></div><br>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mark Roest</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>, Ben de Vries <<a href="mailto:bendevries1968@gmail.com">bendevries1968@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Bill Veltrop <<a href="mailto:billveltrop@comcast.net">billveltrop@comcast.net</a>>, Darren Hill <<a href="mailto:mail@vegburner.co.uk">mail@vegburner.co.uk</a>>, George Mokray <<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a>, Tim Rayner <<a href="mailto:tim@timrayner.net">tim@timrayner.net</a>>, Pamela McLean <<a href="mailto:pamela.mclean@dadamac.net">pamela.mclean@dadamac.net</a>>, Joe Brewer <<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>5th of 3 or 4 :-)<br><br>Let's rock and roll!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mark<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div></div><br>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Tiberius Brastaviceanu</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com">tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>I see this wave as the political dimension of what I call the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements" target="_blank">multitude constructive revolution</a>. <div>
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The global multitude is well enough networked, well enough coordinated, that it can topple tyranical power structures. BUT the multitude still relies on the old value system. Once the tyrants are pushed aside, the same power structure is rebuilt, perhaps with a different flavor, because the multitude is dependent on the classical ways of producing and exchanging value. For example, the Libyan oil, the main resource in this country, will still follow the same routes towards the west, and this highly controlled flow will exert pressure on the local population to reorganize hierarchically in order to sustain their oil revenues. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new economy, in which the production and distribution of value is open and decentralized. The <a href="http://www.sensorica.co" target="_blank">open enterprise</a> and <a href="http://www.metacurrency.org/" target="_blank">alternative currencies</a> are the most important pieces of this puzzle. </div>
<div><br></div><div><b>George Mokary</b>: "<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">provide real relief for the poorest of the poor"</span> </div>
<div>I say we have a great opportunity to implement the new economy in northern Africa. That means to teach local people how to use the modern tools of communication and coordination, to use their social skills, and to form collaborative networks for the production of value and its distribution on the global market, bypassing classical hierarchical and monopolistic institutions. <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/watuafrika/" target="_blank">Watu Afrika</a> is only a draft of this concept. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div></div></div>-- <br>t!b!<br><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu</a><br>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Gabriel Quiroz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriel@contingentemty.org">gabriel@contingentemty.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>, Ben de Vries <<a href="mailto:bendevries1968@gmail.com">bendevries1968@gmail.com</a>>, Bill Veltrop <<a href="mailto:billveltrop@comcast.net">billveltrop@comcast.net</a>>, Darren Hill <<a href="mailto:mail@vegburner.co.uk">mail@vegburner.co.uk</a>>, George Mokray <<a href="mailto:gmoke@world.std.com">gmoke@world.std.com</a>>, Tim Rayner <<a href="mailto:tim@timrayner.net">tim@timrayner.net</a>>, Pamela McLean <<a href="mailto:pamela.mclean@dadamac.net">pamela.mclean@dadamac.net</a>>, Joe Brewer <<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>I'm an activist over here in Mexico and I can tell you that Tunisia and Egypt had a huge morale impact over here, also last year's support for Wikileaks. The #spanishrevolution is also being closely followed by mexican activists and here in Monterrey we are actually planning our own camp. <div>
<br></div><div>Here are some links I've collected thanks to Darren and other friends. If anyone else has any good links, thoughts, comments or anything else pass them around! </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone wants to read spanish sites, <a href="http://translate.google.com/" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/</a> is always a great option, just type the address in the text box and then google translate will provide you a link where it translates it to your language of choice.<br>
<div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13466977" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13466977</a></div><div><a href="http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2011/05/21/los-indignados-de-espana-montan-una-improvisada-ciudad-20" target="_blank">http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2011/05/21/los-indignados-de-espana-montan-una-improvisada-ciudad-20</a></div>
<div><a href="http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/" target="_blank">http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/</a></div><div><a href="http://pamplona.tomalaplaza.net/" target="_blank">http://pamplona.tomalaplaza.net/</a></div><div><a href="http://democraciarealya.es/" target="_blank">http://democraciarealya.es/</a></div>
<div><a href="http://acampadagranada.tomalacalle.net/" target="_blank">http://acampadagranada.tomalacalle.net/</a></div><div><a href="http://alt1040.com/2011/05/dudas-spanishrevolution" target="_blank">http://alt1040.com/2011/05/dudas-spanishrevolution</a></div>
<div><a href="https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/102780/democraciarealyamlaga/?offset=0" target="_blank">https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/102780/democraciarealyamlaga/?offset=0</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><font color="#888888">
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-- <br></font><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Joe Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:05 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>I wrote a blog post about how several global social movements can come together, partly inspired by this discussion thread. Here's the url:<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/global-convergence-social-movements/" target="_blank">http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/global-convergence-social-movements/</a></div>
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A Global Convergence of Social Movements?</h2><small style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:2em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;text-align:center;color:rgb(153, 153, 153)">In <a href="http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/collaboration/" title="View all posts in Collaboration" rel="category tag" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Collaboration</a>, <a href="http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/economic-patterns/" title="View all posts in Economic Patterns" rel="category tag" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Economic Patterns</a>, <a href="http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/social-change/" title="View all posts in Social Change" rel="category tag" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Social Change</a> on <strong style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">May 24, 2011</strong> at <strong style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">6:42 pm</strong></small><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.09em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;line-height:1.4em">
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What will the world look like in 2050? 2070? 2100? It’s impossible to say for sure, especially since the collective impacts of human civilization have altered the state of the world at unprecedented scales. We stand at a cross-roads with an uncertain future. And we have important decisions to make.</p>
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In this post, I’d like to suggest a promising path that lies before us. It is a road we can travel down if enough of us choose to do so. Imagine if the major social movements of the world — <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">sustainability, global justice, world federalism, corporation reform, open collaboration, and social finance </em>– were to congeal into a new way of being. There are trends that suggest this is already happening. We can help amplify this convergence. Or we can suppress it.<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
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I’ve been following all of these movements throughout the last ten years and see a <a href="http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/open-collaboration-paradigm/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153, 0, 0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">new economic paradigm</a> emerging that brings them all together. We can help this process along by familiarizing ourselves with the various social movements that have been on the rise for decades:</p>
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The Sustainability Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
What started out as big game hunters wanting to preserve natural lands grew into a multi-generational exploration of the relationship between human communities and the larger ecological systems that we depend on for our survival. This movement has been divided into categories like <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">conservation, climate change, green urbanism, local foods </em>and<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">environmental justice</em> throughout its history. And now it is all starting to come together in the form of whole system design for economic and urban planning.</p>
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The Global Justice Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
As the last century pulled us through two World Wars and a plethora of regional conflicts, we have learned a great deal about the power of shared prosperity for lifting people out of poverty, weakening the influence of fundamentalism, and promoting compassionate responses to situations that place people in harm’s way. As new media pathways make us more aware of our profound interdependence, we are experiencing much greater consciousness about the social web of life and our moral responsibilities to improve the quality of life for all people.</p>
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The World Federalism Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
Increasing sophistication across the global economy has led us to a place where global-scale governance is necessary for international business and economic development. This has taken the forms of regional federalist systems like the European Union and an explosion of transnational governing institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations. While these institutions remain too weak for addressing global challenges, they exemplify where we must go in order to make our global political systems responsive to the threats of regional conflict, climate change, and poverty.</p>
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The Corporate Reform Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
It has been clear for some time now that the way we’ve designed publicly traded corporations is inadequate. Moving from critique and into the realm of superior design, we are now seeing new corporate forms created that seek to balance people, profit, and planet. These forms go by names like <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">triple bottom line companies</em>, <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">social enterprises, </em>and <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">benefit corporations.</em> At the same time it is increasingly the case that corporate brand strategies require that companies be responsive to the delicate web of values and shared identity that they have crafted through advanced marketing research over the last two decades. The semantics of these relationships have considerable financial power in the marketplace. And those companies that express a legitimate social mission are proving to be more adept at adapting to the desires of profoundly shifting consumer landscapes.</p>
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The Open Collaboration Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
An undercurrent of change is pervading all social movements through the revolutionary changes in information technologies, mobile phones, and social media platforms on the internet. For the first time in history, crowds can self-organize and collaborate to create the largest repository of knowledge (Wikipedia), reveal large-scale consumer preferences (American Idol), build superior computer operating systems (Linux), and fund micro-scale projects (Kickstarter). The open collaboration movement is a paradigm shift in economic production that alters the range of possibilities for all of the other movements. And it makes possible the convergence we are beginning to see.</p>
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The Social Finance Movement</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
A particular example of open collaboration that is poised to transform the entire global economy is social finance. Emerging out of the micro-credit lending concept of Grameen Bank, this new approach to funding brings together social mission, community organizing, and finance into a configuration that unleashes the power of money for doing good. It has taken the forms of <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">crowdfunding, social impact investing, strategic philanthropy, </em>and<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">pooled revenue</em> to discover institutional frameworks that increase human well-being alongside the exchange of money.</p>
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Taken together, these movements represent an emerging system of global governance, business, and finance. We can encourage their integration and accelerate the transition to a new world order — one that is much more democratic and robust in the face of tremendous global change. The choice is ours to make.</p>
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I for one am going to do all I can to speed up the process. Will you?</p><div><br></div></div></span></div><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Tiberius Brastaviceanu</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com">tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:22 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br><div>Thanks Joe, </div><div>I think we actually don't have this choice, convergence is happening. I think that what I call the multitude constructive revolution is a very predictable trend, see my post <a href="http://multitudeproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/multitude-revolution-is-natural.html" target="_blank">The Multitude Revolution is a natural, inevitable process</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All these movements you identify in your post are manifestations of something very fundamental and powerful: the possibility to add our forces together in a new way, outside of the system (<i>communication</i>, <i>coordination and collaboration</i>), + the realization that we actually have this possibility (<i>awakening</i>), + the undeniable desire of humans to escape control and tyranny (<i>historical multitude movement = undeniable trend of emancipation of the masses</i>), all this multiplied by the global economical/financial/political crises we are going through, which create a need for change and shift the attention of the multitude from old processes to new alternatives. <br>
<br>keep on writing! </div><div><br></div><div><div><div></div></div></div>
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-- <br><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Tiberius Brastaviceanu</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com">tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:26 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Forgot something... I am with you Joe! I am busy creating an alternative to the bloody corporation. See <a href="http://www.sensorica.co" target="_blank">SENSORICA</a><div>
and <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network" target="_blank">Multitude Innovation</a>, follow development on my <a href="http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Discovery Network blog</a>. </div>
<div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Joe Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:54 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Tiberius,<div><br></div><div>It's official... I think you rock!!!</div><div>
<br></div><div>;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to playing together more in the days ahead,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Joe</div><div>
<br></div></font><div><div><div></div></div></div><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">paul horan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulyesss@gmail.com">paulyesss@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:44 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Thanks All,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Darren, for getting this conversational ball rolling</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">George, for connecting the dots on both sides of the Mediterranean and reminding us whom we should be serving or at lest helping to serve = "the <span style="font:13.0px Arial">poorest of the poor</span>" along w/ these good folks "<span style="font:13.0px Arial">unshakably focused on actions not words</span>"</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Tim, for sharing Michel Bauwens' take via that link from Pam (powerfully real, live imagery echoing the wise moral from "The Emperor's New Clothes" folk tale : )</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Joe, for sharing your views and aspirations (& like Tibi says, "<span style="font:13.0px Arial">keep on writing!</span>" : )</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Mark, for circulating this stuff among more good folks</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Tibi, for reminding us of the "<span style="font:13.0px Arial">important pieces of this puzzle"</span> emerging from our naturally attractive human values and guiding the design of of our evolutionary guidance systems including boldly open economic technologies</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Gabriel, for letting us know about the "<span style="font:13.0px Arial">huge morale impact</span>" these current activities are generating for you good folks in Mexico</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">Perhaps some of you'll get a kick out of this = <a href="http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/assange-zuckerberg.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/assange-zuckerberg.jpg</a></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">From Love,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">with</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">paul</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino;min-height:19.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Palatino">P. S. = as Michael jokingly shared several weeks ago, "Tibi, for CEO!"</p><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mark Roest</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:20 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a>, David Alan Foster <<a href="mailto:dalan@me.com">dalan@me.com</a>>, Sahibou Oumarou <<a href="mailto:sahibcisse@yahoo.com">sahibcisse@yahoo.com</a>>, Consuelo Griego <<a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>I'm in! I've been on this path since 1966, although for a lot of it, I did not know the people answers quite yet. Now they are clear, and Joe and Tiberius, you've collectively nailed the moon-level view!<div>
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</div><div>Mark Roest<div><div></div></div></div><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Lion Kimbro</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lionkimbro@gmail.com">lionkimbro@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br><br> I would add an additional dimension, that is so-far unmentioned:<br> The spiritual reality.<br>
<br> Indeed, in each of the categories listed, there has been an inquiry that has asked, "<i>Will it be enough</i>, to change the outer forms of existence?"<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The Sustainability Movement</h4>There is a further category known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology" target="_blank"><i>deep ecology</i></a>. This movement does not ask, "How do we manage Salmon as a resource, so that they don't go extinct and upset our lives," but rather, "How do we know the Salmon as our brother and sister in life?" If we could develop the state of consciousness that can speak publicly and appeal & judge meaningfully from what we privately know in our hearts, then we would be in another place entirely.<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The Global Justice Movement</h4><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Max_Neef" target="_blank">Manfred Max Neef</a> has rewritten economy in his book on "Barefoot Economics." His 5 principles for the remaking of economic theory -- that (1) the economy is here to serve the people, not the people to serve the economy, that (2) development is about people, and not about objects, that (3) growth is not the same as development, and development does not necessarily require growth, that (4) no economy is possible, in the absence of ecology, that (5) the economy is a subsystem of a larger system -- specifically the biosphere (and hence: permanent growth impossible) -- all rest on one fundamental principle: That nothing can be more important than Life.<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The World Federalism Movement</h4>The World Federalism Movement is a mirror image of another movement: The linking together of neighbors into tribes, and the assemblies of indigenous cultures. Extraordinary adventures can be had in the ether-worlds of governments, NGOs, and activists, but people at home struggle with their bosses, employees, husbands, and wives. The Tamerans are fond of saying, "There can not be peace in the world as long as there is war in love." The Arthurian legend can warn us that the private sphere is not separate from the political sphere. World powers may federate, but will the people on the ground, who each live in their own separate household, with their own separate car, with their own separate X-Box and playstation? <a href="http://www.damanhur.org/" target="_blank">The Federation of Damanhur</a> and the <a href="http://tamera.org/index.html" target="_blank">Tameran </a>society suggest otherwise. Do they federate? <a href="http://gen.ecovillage.org/" target="_blank">They do</a>. And they have <a href="http://tamera.org/index.php?id=91" target="_blank">a vision of federation</a>.<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The Corporate Reform Movement</h4>The triple bottom line has been noted; And thank God for that. But do I hear stirrings of a <a href="http://revolvethis.com/quadruple_bottom_line" target="_blank">quadruple bottom line</a>? Are we sims, and as sims, trying to manufacture factories for more happy simming? Or are we something more? How do we align our patterns of work with the powers of dream? What does this mean for the development of the employee who works? How can the personal connect with the work environment? This is another place where the Damanhurians -- champions of <i>work</i> <i>as a spiritual concept</i>, where people are known to perform many different works in their lifetime -- and excellently in each work at that -- may have something extraordinarily valuable to teach us. The values of art and creativity in parsimony with industriousness and accomplishment.<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The Open Collaboration Movement</h4>The open collaboration movement as characterized by Free Software and Commons Based Peer Production is amazing. I would pair it with the <a href="http://www.artofhosting.org/home/" target="_blank">Art of Hosting </a>communities, and extraordinary conveners such as <a href="http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/" target="_blank">Peggy Hollman </a>& associates. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology" target="_blank">Open Space Technology </a>opens meaningful collaboration with extraordinary results. In my experience, these techniques are far more powerful when they consciously address the spiritual and the whole environment of the person. They weaken, when they just become about boxing time and "getting-to-know-you" exercises.<br>
<br><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"></span><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.4em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The Social Finance Movement</h4>I do not have as much to say on this one as I would like; But I would like to point to a book: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_%28novel%29" target="_blank">Momo: the Strange Story of the Time Thieves, and the Child Who Brought the Stolen Time Back to Humanity</a>. As we come up with strategies for making use of communications technologies and micro-fluid transactions to further economize on existing energy, -- may I suggest rethinking our entire perspective towards what is valuable in the first place, and how a community allocates? (If there is even a community in the first place..!)<br>
<br>Finally, I remember what Dieter Duhm wrote:<br><br>"The Change of Inner Structures. Humankind has long believed that it
could overcome societal deficiencies through revolutions and reforms,
through democracy and conferences, through moral appeals and reason.
But obviously, the opposite has occurred. The global war cannot be
overcome as long as humans have not overcome their underlying inner
structures and patterns of thinking. In both cases, there are the same
structures of collective human trauma, originating from thousands of
years of war, destruction, displacement and destroyed love. Collective
thinking patterns of fear and violence are the foundation of human
culture today."<br><br>It is very similar to something Christopher Eucken wrote in his prediction of the failure of Communism: (paraphrasing:) We have addressed only the outer conditions of man. As long as we do not address the interior reality of the human being, nothing can substantially change. New worlds can always be gamed, until we come to the point where we transform <i>to no longer game</i>.<br>
<br>Billy Graham makes a similar excellent point in his TED talk, in 1998:<br><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_faith_and_suffering.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_faith_and_suffering.html</a><br>
<br>I do not request that anybody hop on a 2012 bandwagon, or wave around crystal wands, or sing Kumbayah. Nor do I believe that the world needs to become Christian, as Billy Graham would have us do. These, too, would all, also, be outer changes. I do, however, ask discerning readers to pause, and look deeply at the requirements for inner change in our thinking structures and motives. In particular, though there is no point above for me to attach it to, I would consider what the Tamerans call "The World Power of Sexuality."<br>
<br>All of the movements listed above, I support; But I support them as a secondary power. The primary power will be that which is living in people's hearts. It has always been the primary power, and it can never be any other way. Without our intentions, -- if everything is just an accident of technologies and outer conditions -- then there is no hope, because whatever beautiful outcome that may have occurred will just be swept away by the next wave of technology. Only when hearts align and connect of their own free choosing can the beautiful world we hope for be accomplished. Everything else is so much ecological destruction, because the ecology will be stepped on if it means stepping on it to get the piece that the guy next to us won't give us. (And this again reminds me of: <i>rivalry</i>.) Teilhard, who we would like to quote, never placed his hope in a global brain, except as a post on the way to a global heart. We cannot afford to confuse (what may be temporary) <a href="http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/mm/sandbox.htm" target="_blank">outcomes with goals</a>.<br>
<br>There, I've said my piece. I wasn't involved before, and I do not usually read this mailing list. It was sheer serendipity that I saw this post. I feel like a stranger out of the blue suddenly protesting an otherwise orderly gathering. But I feel that what I am saying is genuine, relevant, and can be appreciated. Thank you for letting me say my piece.<div>
<div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Joe Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com">brewer@cognitivepolicyworks.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Hey Lion,<div><br></div><div>Well said... your insights run deep and are a nice addition to the conversation thread so far. What we're seeing emerge can be thought of as a deepening and broadening of social consciousness through the inherent intelligence of newly emerging cultural systems. I find great power in the idea of compassion becoming embodied in human systems, something that has not been central up till now. </div>
<div><br></div><div>We can build upon the aspects of human nature that house our empathy by becoming more intentional about our relationships one to another and throughout the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Lots to unpack here, of course!</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Joe</div></font><div><div><div></div></div></div><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">paul horan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulyesss@gmail.com">paulyesss@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:14 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br></font><br></span><br>Thanks Lion!<div><br></div><div>I deeply appreciate your views and how you've expressed them. Much obliged for the various links.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If Michael Marien used "infoglut" to describe conditions nearly 20 years ago, I wonder what term he'd use for today ...</div>
<div><br></div><div>YESSS, let's carefully turn our interior lives inside out and boldly liberate our most heartfelt aspirations!</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">paul</font><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Mark Roest</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marklroest@gmail.com">marklroest@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br>Cc: Bill Veltrop <<a href="mailto:billveltrop@comcast.net">billveltrop@comcast.net</a>>, Consuelo Griego <<a href="mailto:consuelogriego@gmail.com">consuelogriego@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>Hello Lion,<div><br></div><div>Well Come! You have written well and boldly. Let's concept-map these, so we can share how they relate to each other, with people who have not yet thought them through.</div>
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<div>I would suggest that you check out the Stanford Medical School's CCARES program, developed with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and others who study in his tradition. It became a curriculum for encouraging compassion and altruism that has so far been deployed to over 2000 schools in the U.S.!</div>
<div><br></div><div>It will fit well with your thoughts. Also, check out the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture <<span style="color:rgb(14, 119, 74);line-height:15px;font-family:arial, sans-serif">www.<b>misa</b>.ws/</span>> and its regional transformation program. I will attempt to bridge between their work, CotW, and the next spiral of entrepreneurship.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Mark Roest<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div></div><br></div><div><div></div></div><br></div><br></div>