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Localizing Global Change:
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The momentum of community is rising. Please join us! …for More and More. More and more people. More and more resources. More and more easy. More and more connected. More and more green. More and more power to do good things, in more and more local neighborhoods and organizations.Three years ago, some of us convened a small but national conference on the future of philanthropy, technology and community action. Two years ago, more of us joined in to create a second and international conference which was also the first-ever omidyar.net members conference. Last year we did it again, and along the way these conversations have sparked half a dozen more conferences and action on at least four continents.All the while, you’ve been busy doing all the things you do to try make the world a better place, and you’ve been noticing that more and more people are getting together for global community good. This year’s global gathering in Chicago is going to focus on “doingâ€. All good work. All kinds of local action. We welcome good people from everywhere to join with people we are actively inviting who are “doing†in Chicago neighborhoods. Bring your own local doing to share. We want to do more and more in all localities, and to do it more together.This year’s conference will follow the same simple and active format as all the previous conferences. We’ll gather for one big opening, create a working agenda that includes all of our most important issues and questions, meet with friends and colleagues to actively address everything on the agenda, document and publish our notes online, and head back out into all the things we are doing with more energy, more clarity and more connections.
The momentum of community is rising. Please join us! WHEN? July 19-22, 2007 …music and barbecue on Thursday night, conference all day Friday and Saturday, finishing by noon on Sunday, with airport drop-offs or excursions for out-of-towners on Sunday afternoon. WHERE? General Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club, 2950 W. 25th Street, Chicago IL 60623 WHO SHOULD COME? Anyone who wants to get more and more into community, technology, environment, and other social justice kinds of work and practice. Anyone who wants to make more and more connections between all these sorts of things. And anyone who wants to have more and more fun and friends in the process of community leadership. WHAT TO BRING? Food to eat/share, materials to show/share, ideas and questions, issues and projects that you care about and want to inform and be informed by others AND a total of $40 (scholarships may be available) to pay for basic costs of site and materials for all three days of meetings. NOW WHAT? Send an email to register@globalchicago.net (or any other address we like), make a payment at paypal (details forthcoming), forward this invitation to friends and colleagues, people you work with — and people you want to work with. we’ll send you details about places and times and be glad to answer any other questions. Stay tuned to www.GlobalChicago.net for more information. CO-CONVENERS? Ted Ernst, Christina Jordan, Michael Maranda, Hermilo Hinojosa, Kachina Katrina Zavalney, Pierre Clark, Julie Peterson, Jean Russell, Dave Chakrabarti, and You… |
Archive for the ‘open space’ Category
Emerging Futures Network
Monday, April 9th, 2007
Elements of The World We Want
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006I’m not ready to make a full statement of my vision of The World We Want and what we need to do to get there. But I do see certain elements of it that I’d like to share. I can share a fair number of them by directing others to a film: The Upward Spiral. In the World We Want we’d all understand the experience of Abard Ofgaia.
I thank my friends who, so focused on currencies and flows, offered me the gift of connecting to some memory of self in advancing this film and this subject. So many of the images reminded me of my time learning in retreat with nature upriver of Rochester NY at Letchworth State Park.
As dancing animals we must go upstream to the headwaters of our more dangerous flows, to where we may have influence and through mindful action undertake small changes that lead oppositions into harmonies.
to gather networks together: moreandmore.us
Friday, March 10th, 2006As, always, there’s a lineage here… the giving conference of two years ago, of which I’ve been regaled with accounts… and last year, the first ONet member initiated open space conference in Oak Park… well, we’re doing it again this coming July. There’s some cutting edge stuff going on… imagine any number of folk pushing a multiplicity of edges and searching for a language with which to share and build on that pluralized extension of the envelope. We’re still thinking through some issues, and we don’t know what will happen, but just for a moment think on the questions put before the Open Space mailing lists: questions of co-location and co-convening of events. Imagine networks overlaid upon each other. Imagine multiple networks compacted into the same space… if they are as viscous as our instinct tells us… the strength of transforming ties will be the word coming out of this.
Find your way in through moreandmore.us.