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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Greenwald <info@...>
To: paul@...
Subject: Host a House Party with Pete Seeger and Majora Carter

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Dear Paul,

The upcoming episode of This Brave Nation featuring Pete Seeger and Majora Carter epitomizes that sentiment. Pete Seeger has played an active role in every social movement in modern history, from early union battles to Civil Rights to the anti-war movement. At 89, Pete is not only a reminder of our nation's history of turbulence and triumph, he is also an inspiration for our vibrant future.

Perhaps that's what gave him an instant connection with Majora Carter. The Executive Director and Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, Majora has worked tirelessly to reshape the neighborhood of her youth by encouraging sustainability, alternative transportation, and a national green-collar job agenda. These two committed individuals are definitely taking action to change our world, and their conversation is not to be missed.

Watch the full fourth episode

And speaking of taking action, it's time to PARTY! July 13th we will bring you LIVE the final episode of This Brave Nation, featuring 2 very special guests. How can we share this with all of you live? House parties, that's how. Sign up now to host a house party featuring the This Brave Nation episode of your choice, followed by a LIVE episode of This Brave Nation.

In the meantime, don't forget to make a donation today to This Brave Nation - 2 DVDs of the first five episodes for just $15. We're going to start shipping these DVDs tomorrow, June 23, so get 'em while they're hot!

Lastly, we've extended our contest deadline for The Brave Nation Young Activist Award to June 27. That gives you an extra week to nominate your local unsung hero!

• Julia Dann worked as a community development organizer in rural Costa Rica.
• At 27, Kyle Serrette became a lead organizer for AFSCME's United Nurses Associations of California.
• In 1999 as a high school student, Charity Ryerson she was responsible for persuading the Indianapolis City-County Council to adopt a resolution condemning China's occupation of Tibet and the treatment of the Tibetan people.

What young activist do you know that's making the world a better place? Let us know - soon!

Sincerely,
Robert Greenwald and Katrina vanden Heuvel
Brave New Foundation and the The Nation

Who's buzzing about This Brave Nation?

Permit me a personal moment. Like you, I often wonder why I do what I do. And because I've done it for so long, I sometimes wonder whether it all was worth it. Well, make no mistake. It was and is. Especially when the reasons are so graphically and emotionally recorded on film. Let me explain. Last night I watched - online - the second episode in a remarkable series co-produced by The Nation magazine and Brave New Foundation. ...Print married with film. Film and print married with the internet. Internet married with text, audio and video. Text, audio and video married with ACTION. You don't need a user's manual to get the beauty of all this integration.

It truly is one of the best things you guys have ever done -- the discussions are amazing. Truly. And, quite frankly, a whole lot of folks need some inspiration to get up off their asses right now.

- Christy at Firedoglake (via email)

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Subject: Mellman Column
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:13:17 -0400
From: "Mark Mellman" <mmellman@...>

It’s the rules that rule

By Mark Mellman

Intuitively believing that attitudes determine behavior, we instinctively infer the former from the latter.

So it is with the demise of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Analyses mix examination of Barack Obama’s appeal and descriptions of strategic blunders with assessments of Clinton’s failure to provide what voters wanted.

One pundit suggested Clinton was defeated because “she turned into the living representation of … [the Washington] establishment and its myopic vision.” Another argued Democrats rejected Clinton because “The country is looking for something new and hip and next-generational.” Or perhaps it was because voters preferred “inspiration over restoration.”

Analysis of this kind is hardly limited to this presidential campaign. Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus prematurely proclaimed “The Death of Environmentalism,” based importantly on Congress’s 2002 failure to pass stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. After 2000, commentators inferred the centrality of Bush’s “likability” from his (disputed) electoral vote victory.

The genius of our Founders as social scientists lay in their recognition that institutional arrangements — the rules of the game, not just attitudes — play a central role determining outcomes and shaping behaviors.

Madison argued in the Federalist Papers that the institutional arrangements he recommended would “cure the mischief of faction.” Maintaining that public decisions should not merely reflect “the superior force of the majority,” the Federalists elaborated rules and inserted institutions into our Constitution designed to prevent outcomes from reflecting only the will of the majority. To the extent their plans were well-laid, observers should be unable to infer public opinion from political outcomes.

Before returning to politics, examine this process of inference in another realm. Despite the fact that nearly 100,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving transplants, just 35 percent of us are registered organ donors, compared to 99.9 percent of French, Hungarians and Austrians.

Struggling to explain these differences, an analyst oblivious to the role of rules might posit that American values around organ donation differ from those of the French. Attention might turn to the role of religiosity in the U.S. as against European secularism, or to Europe’s communitarian values, contrasted with American individualism.

Yet, Gallup finds 95 percent of Americans support organ donation. Attitudes don’t differ. Why the difference in behavior?

It’s the rules. In France, Austria and Hungary everyone is an automatic organ donor, unless they choose to opt out. In the U.S., potential donors must opt in. Different rules, not different values, produce the differing results.

Rules matter in politics as well. If Democrats had the same winner-take-all delegate selection rules adopted by Republicans, Hillary Clinton would have won the nomination without assistance from Michigan or Florida.

While the calculations are more difficult and the uncertainties greater, it is not at all clear that John McCain would have emerged victorious had the GOP used Democrats’ proportional representation system.

No one can dispute the validity of either nomination: Without rules there is no fairness, no legitimate contest, and there is nothing unfair about one set of rules or the other. They are just different. Everyone knew the rules in advance and everybody was bound to play by them.

But the centrality of the rules in determining the outcome makes it difficult to interpret wins and losses as endorsements of some particular version of public attitudes.

If the state-by-state and exit poll results had been exactly the same but today Hillary Clinton were celebrating her nomination because the rules were different, would pundits have concluded voters back the Washington establishment; were looking for restoration, abjuring inspiration; for tried and true, rather than new and cool?

If so, they would be making the same error many are now committing by inferring an array of hostile public attitudes toward Hillary Clinton from the outcome of this nomination battle.

Mellman is president of The Mellman Group and has worked for Democratic candidates and causes since 1982, including Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004.

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CC: kbowden@...
From: Carl Webb <carlwebb1965@...>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [austechcoalition] “Dead Trees vs. Twittering Thumbs” (old vs.new school journalism) at Austin City Hall

Join us for our next meeting, featuring a panel on the
impact of technology on journalism.

“Dead Trees vs. Twittering Thumbs”

Monday, May 12, 2008
Noon – 2pm
Council Chambers, City Hall
301 W. Second Street, Austin, TX 78701
Map: http://tinyurl.com/55awtv

“Dead Trees vs. Twittering Thumbs” tackles the
friction between old- and new-school journalism. On
one hand, newspapers and broadcasters are adjusting to
splintered audiences and incorporating digital media
into their craft. On the other, bloggers and citizen
journalists are gaining respect and sometimes scooping
traditional news outlets.

The panel discussion begins at noon and includes Carol
Flake of Newsweek, R.G. Ratcliffe of the Houston
Chronicle, George Sylvie of UT's School of Journalism,
and others.

Following the panel DMC outreach and current projects
will be discussed. Lunch is provided if you RSVP.

Please RSVP to Kristy Bowden, Director, Digital Media
Council, Skillpoint Alliance, 512-323-6773 x105 or
kbowden@skillpointalliance.org

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13890812290

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:31:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Prof. Bruce Lloyd" <info@...>
To: pauls@...
Subject: Shaping Tomorrow Insight Newsletter

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Insight Newsletter 12 March 2008 Edited by Bruce Lloyd

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Trend Alert: Public Sector innovation in and around Web 2.0 Haydn Shaughnessy, Writer and former EU programme manager Haydn Shaughnessy is currently developing the  New Media and Social Media practice at Depo Consulting http://www.depoconsulting.com. Click here to view Haydn's blogg. The public sector leads the way in high value IT contracts, a form of innovation that ostensibly improves efficiencies. The Web 2.0 world however is not about applying technology; it is all about concocting new social models with the aim eventually of securing significant innovations. The public sector is beginning to feature prominently in this burgeoning new area. Globally, the small scale of Web 2.0 projects would not impress the average software sales professional but perhaps that too is why these developments are important – they are under the radar and they are about people rather than the machines. Wikis over the past two years have become a big area of activity in US Government agency work. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the USA recently proposed a new initiative Intellipedia, which is an adaptation of Wikipedia for intelligence purposes. The New Zealand Government recently asked the public to help rewrite the Police Review Act through a Wiki. In the US again the Federal Trade Commission last year created a blog to chronicle a series of Federal Trade Commission hearings and the popular website YouTube, the Google-owned video clips site – is inspiring Government YouTube lookalikes to store videos of different internal processes for new employees to use as learning materials. Virtual worlds too are being harnessed for innovation. NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control) are good examples of these are both virtual world advocatesSMM. The US National Guard has developed a virtual world, the Nexus, for training emergency responders across the United States. The project involves simulating local, State and Federal interaction in the event of crises. In the UK the Open University has been conducting research, under a scheme called the Schome Park Project, on the use of virtual reality for improving the communication abilities of troubled teenagers. One of the key findings of the Project is that the participants "have found it very liberating to be able to interact with other people through an avatar," according to a recent statement from the Director Peter Twining. American doctors are pursuing similar applications. The web-based newspaper reported recently that doctors at the Dallas Center for Brain Health in Texas had found that communicating with young people with Asperger Syndrome (a form of autism) in Second Life has improved the ability of their patients to relate. Why is this important? It is an apparently small collection of examples but the big message is that these initiatives cost very little to implement. Just as Web 2.0 is user-driven and content is user-made, here too we see initiatives that draw people in as the main authors/drivers. In a world where software sales and the public sector have a chequered history, and where pressure to innovate is measured in the millions of pounds or dollars, small and user-generated solutions look like being very beautiful.   Indeed these could be the models that drive participatory democracy in the future. Rather than e-voting and e-participation, Web 2.0 models offer semi-spontaneous ways in which public service officials and the public can define better ways to support public services. Using this Trend Alert: A six-step guide Want to contribute a Trend Alert? Please email Kerry Richardson if you would like to contribute a Trend Alert on foresight, strategic thinking or change management and earn money from publishing your full briefings. Want to re-publish this Trend Alert? We give our permission for anyone to republish this Alert on the following conditions: that you fully adhere to our copyright policies. See our Terms & Conditions (see para 2.). that you link the re-published article to the original article that you reproduce the Alert as it first appeared with no changes of any kind. Latest Insights Welcome to our latest Insight newsletter. Read the trend alerts, article and video links below to find your Trends before others do. Our weekly newsletter is just a gentle reminder of what's maybe changing imperceptibly around you. The website itself contains a much larger selection of structured content, with likely high relevance to you and your organisation, and is updated daily. We have added 189 new links this week including Green Revolution Extends To Pet World It doesn't take long for a human trend to envelop pets Gadgets Driving Couples To Sleep Separately High-tech gadgets are driving millions of couples to sleep apart Digital Home: An All-in-one Device To Control Most Everything Researchers are working on the wireless connection of electronic devices for broadcasting and entertainment in home networks From Geeks To Greens A continuing number of silicon valley entrepreneurs and other technology company leaders are continuing to fill green company positions, bringing business savvy and problem solving skills. First Humanoid Robot That Will Develop Language May Be Coming Soon iCub, a one metre-high baby robot which will be used to study how a robot could quickly pick up language skills, will be available next year India Losing Status As Offshore King? India is losing its stranglehold as the offshoring destination of choice as China, Morocco and Hungary gain ground China To Be World’s Largest Economy In 2025 China could overtake the United States by 2025 to be the world’s largest economy and is anticipated to grow to about 130% the size of the United States by 2050 Engineering The World's Fastest Swimsuit A highly specialised computer modelling technique has been instrumental in the design of a revolutionary new swimsuit which is now being hailed as the fastest in the world Evolution Of Cyber Warfare Washington has accused the Chinese of hacking into government computer networks at the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Defense—in some instances making off with data EU Looks Into Future Of Greener Shipping Greener ships and water-borne transport are vital components for reaching the 2020 CO2 emission target and giving Europe an additional competitive edge Future Of Web Apps Will See The Death Of E-mail The way people have been talking about e-mail at the Future of Web Apps conference, you'd think it were a cell phone carrier or a domestic airline. It's antiquated, it's backward, and everybody hates it.

Contents Trend Alert: Public Sector innovation in and around Web 2.0 Latest Insights Horizon scanning - Getting Started Tell us what you want Wanted - ST contributors! Free Foresight Network   Horizon scanning - Getting Started Important developments to celebrate Shaping Tomorrow's fifth birthday today. Collaborate The left hand navigation bar has been reorganised to put members’ and their content first under the title of â€�Collaborate’ Comments Members can now share comments with each other and privately with their colleagues Networking Members can now see who is joining, know who our top contributors are and ask to become one. And, read the latest Blog and Forum postings written by leading futurists. Visualisations Graphical, tabular, tag clouds and map representations of the database are now available Representative Offices We have appointed representatives in 22 countries Futurist Consultancy To support our rapidly growing international client-base Shaping Tomorrow now supplies its services to an independent advisory team called the Futurist Consultancy Predictify Predictify has created a dedicated "prediction centre" for Shaping Tomorrow Help A new help function replaces the previous single texts with an indexed and navigable user guide throughout the site For more detail please see What’s New.   Tell us what you want Please tell us what you want to know and we will endeavour to write about your interests in future Trend Alerts. Just contact us with a short description of the topic(s) of interest. We will do the rest.   Wanted - ST contributors! Shaping Tomorrow needs more researchers and writers to contribute to our growing service. In return we offer free access to Shaping Tomorrow plus opportunities for paid client work. We are particularly interested in attracting student, interns, post-graduate and professional futurists, strategists and change agents from all parts of the world. Those with European, Asian and Latin American foreign language skills are particularly welcomed. Learn more and see who is with us! Please indicate your interest in joining them, and us, by emailing Kerry describing your interests and skills.   Free Foresight Network Join our free international network of over 800 futurists, strategists and change agents and there will always be someone here to help you advance your future research and thinking, strategic planning and change management.

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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Steven \"Doc\" List" <anotherthought@...>
To: Paul Schumann <pauls@...>
Subject: Open Space Conference Facilitation as a business

Steven "Doc" List wrote: Open Space Conference Facilitation as a business In the past year, I have become an Open Space Facilitator. I've done the job for several different sizes of events, from seven people up to about 150. I'll be doing it again next month, once for pay, and once for thanks (and maybe a little gift :)). I'm looking for ways to reach out and both establish myself as a professional facilitator (which I am) and find people and organizations who are holding Open Spaces, would like to hold them, or don't know they want to yet and would benefit from them. I'm looking for suggestions on how to find and reach those people and organizations. To be clear, I think Open Spaces are an exceptional way to hold meetings and events, and want both to help propagate the approach, and be a part of it. For those who might not be familiar with Open Space Technology, here's the main reference web site: http://www.openspaceworld.org/ The Wikipedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology And Wikipedia's summary: "Open Space Technology (OST) is a way to convene people for a conference, retreat or meeting. "Technology" in this case means 'tool' - a process; a method. Attendees are asked to generate the meeting agenda as well as participate by leading small group break-out sessions during the meeting time. There is usually a facilitator, but no official meeting leader who demands compliance." Answer question

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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:36:49 -0600
From: "Mike Chapman" <chapmanmd@...>
To: "Mike Chapman" <chapmanmd@...>
Subject: GeekAustin, Dorkbots-Austin and Austin Business Bloggers

This is a busy week if you want to gather with other people involved in social media in Austin. The first Austin Social Media Breakfast, featuring Bryan Person, is scheduled for next week, on February 21st - the location will be announced later this week - but you don't have to wait until then to mix and mingle with others with a common interest in social media here in Austin.

Go to the Austin Social Media Club website for updates.

Austin Business Blogger Dinner

Thom Singer is coordinating this dinner at Gueros on South Congress on Monday, February 11th at 5:30. Please email Thom at thom@... if you would like to join him and others who blog for their businesses. Attendees share their experiences, talk about recent developments in the blogosphere, and discuss best practices. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn about blogging in an intimate and friendly environment.

GeekAustin / Dorkbot-Austin Happy Hour

Then on Tuesday, February 12th, GeekAustin will be combining with Dorkbot-Austin for its monthly happy hour. This is a larger gathering that attracts a who's who among Austin geeks. The happy hour is being held from 7 pm to 9pm at J Black's Feel Good Lounge, 710 W 6th St Ste B, Austin, Texas 78701.

Appearing at the happy hour will be video artist Paul Baker (Amoda Profile) (youtube), as well as a flickr / robot mashup by David Nunez (http://delamaquina.com/) — all courtesy of DorkbotAustin.

This is your opportunity to meet dozens of Austin's fringe hackers and digital mad scientists. Dorkbot-Austin has been featured on wired.com, San Francisco Chronicle, boingboing.net, Makezine.com, BBC-Radio, and G4TV among many others.

To get on the invite list for upcoming GeekAustin parties, send an email to linearb@.... For more info on Dorkbot, visit http://dorkbotaustin.

Go to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/418904/ to rsvp.

Austin Social Media Breakfast

February 21st is the date. Please keep your morning open and look for details soon.

--
Mike Chapman
http://austin.socialmediaclub.com
512.971.6041

Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:10:51 -0800
From: Tom Atlee <cii@...>
Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] A Call to Prepare Together for Uncertain Futures
To: NCDD-DISCUSSION@...

(Reply to phoenixconversations@...)

January 2008

PHOENIX CONVERSATIONS --
A CALL TO PREPARE FOR PROFOUNDLY UNCERTAIN FUTURE CRISES

(Please pass it on and distribute in your networks.)


An undercurrent of conversations is bubbling in all sectors -- among
businesspeople, government officials, futurists, activists, citizens
over back fences and blogs... There is a growing sense of crisis
that neither mainstream leaders nor the public quite know what to do
with. Many of us are talking about it in our own circles,
separately, out of the public eye. Very little of this conversation
is visible in the mainstream press and political debates, so we don't
realize how many other people and institutions are discussing it.

Practically everyone has an opinion about this uneasy topic of
crisis. Indeed, there is widespread, legitimate disagreement about
the extent to which a "perfect storm" of complementary crises may be
emerging in the near future, involving, but not limited to:
* peak oil
* accelerating climate change
* serious economic disruption
* loss of democracy
* significant resource depletion (including fresh water and arable land)
* international instability and terrorism
* increasingly disruptive technology developments and
* "wild card" events such as pandemics.
Many people believe that one or more of these or other crises could
become catastrophic within decades or less. Some corporations are
planning to profit by them, while some activists are planning to use
them to push major social change agendas. Most citizens are just
trying to get a grip on what's happening, each in their own limited
way.

Despite the widespread sense that these are real challenges, hardly
anywhere do we find diverse people exploring the full range of
possibilities in each of these potential crisis areas, and seriously
considering the impacts they might have on each other, for better and
for worse, if they happened together.

This is a serious omission. By the very nature of these potential
crises, we cannot know for certain how they will unfold. The natural
and social systems within which they are emerging are complex,
chaotic, vast, and increasingly out-of-equilibrium. Small unexpected
developments could turn any of these challenges into minor problems
or major catastropes within a very short time ... or change the game
entirely. If we could be certain what the future would bring, and
how these possible crises would play out, then perhaps we could
discover or develop the best approach for dealing with each of them.
But we can't. We just can't be sure. And that's the rub.

Now here's the surprise: In these circumstances of profound
uncertainty, the fact that we disagree about our collective future
and how to handle it could be our most important asset.

Living systems tend to be as resilient as they are diverse. In the
same ways that diversified investments are considered more secure
than putting all your money into one stock, genetic variation makes a
crop more resilient against bugs. Crop species and populations that
include wide variation don't tend to collapse when challenged,
because they can call on a wide spectrum of strengths and
resistances. Some variations may die, but others thrive, with the
specifics depending on which environmental challenges show up. The
same can be said for ideas and approaches. Since we don't know what
will happen, it behooves us to have people and organizations who are
researching, advocating, and preparing for as wide a range of
scenarios and outcomes as possible.

Well, we already have that. What's missing is that most of these
players are not fluent at thinking along that whole spectrum -- or
even communicating with others who are thinking about a different set
of outcomes. This makes it less likely that the ideas and approaches
we need to deal with what occurs -- or might occur -- will be
available at the right time and place to choose from. We are talking
already, just not with each other. We are people in various sectors
-- from diverse officials and experts to diverse ordinary citizens
and community members -- who hold different views about what might
happen, and who have different knowledge, resources, and connections.
It is time we start REALLY talking together across boundaries,
stimulating each other's thinking, cross-fertilizing ideas, even
collaborating -- because all of us are smarter than any of us.

We can explore various scenarios together, asking, "If that happened,
what would that mean? What else would be happening? What kind of
response would be called for? What would we do?" We can explain to
each other what it is like to be working where we work, living where
we live, the opportunities and constraints we know about that might
be relevant to how all this plays out. We can share what it feels
like to explore the potential disruptions of crisis -- or to talk
with other people who feel so dramatically different about it than we
do. We can learn from and about each other and store up our deepened
understandings and relationships for the future, when we just might
need them.

The idea of such conversations -- which we're calling Phoenix
Conversations -- isn't to plan, so much as it is to become more
fluent and flexible in navigating an unknown, unknowable future
together. The more we explore such scenarios and diverse
perspectives, the more prepared we become to meet any given future,
even ones we haven't thought of before. And when we interact with
such scenarios together in a safe, passionate, respectful atmosphere
-- whether done through disciplined scenario work, wildly creative
emergent processes, or down-at-the-cafe conversation -- we discover
more about who each other is, and where it might be productive to
think or work together further.

There are many ways -- organized* or spontaneous -- to have such
conversations. If you are a friend or neighbor talking with others
about this, think about how you could explore different scenarios
together. If you are a professional conversation host or
facilitator, consider suggesting or convening a Phoenix Conversation
that engages your community or clients. If you are already engaged
in crisis-oriented conversations or preparations of any kind with
anyone, you may want to seek out others from other sectors or other
perspectives to talk with. If you have relevant expertise or
projects, you may want to bring your knowledge and questions into a
conversation that includes a wider range of people, a wider range of
potential crises, and a wider range of scenarios from mild to serious
to devastating. The more diverse people become connected to each
other and comfortable with the variety of possible responses to
diverse possibilities, the more prepared we will all be in meeting
whatever happens.

The Phoenix Conversations Project is convening conference calls (and
soon a website) where those of us interested in this approach can
talk about what it might mean and what else we might do, separately
and together, and learn as we go. If you are interested in joining
one of these calls, send an email to phoenixconversations@...
briefly describing conversations like these that you are having or
would like to have, what you think might help you in the process,
your interest in connecting with others, and any relevant experience.
We will get in touch with you.

Finally, if you know of any financial or organizing resources which
could be applied to this project to help make the best use of
whatever emerges from these conversations, do let us know.

We are, after all, all in it together -- no matter what happens.

Jennifer Atlee
Tom Atlee
Susan Cannon
Peggy Holman


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* For diverse approaches to powerful conversations, and to connect
with networks of dialogue hosts and facilitators, see the National
Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation website
.

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Our purpose is to catalyze conversations that use the power
of diversity and interactive imagination to nurture proactive
and evolutionary responses to potential crises by citizens,
leaders, organizations, communities and nations.

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:27:08 -0500
From: Julie Fanselow <jfanselow@...>
Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Frances Moore Lappé launches Everyday Democracy Book Club January 17
To: NCDD-DISCUSSION@...

Hello everyone, and happy new year! You are all invited to the launch of our Everyday Democracy Book Club on Thursday, January 17. Join us online at http://www.DemocracySpace.org at 1 p.m. Eastern, when noted author Frances Moore Lappé will be visiting and answering questions about her new book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad. It's a hands-on guide to pursuing the sort of Living Democracy that  Lappé outlined in her previous book, Democracy's Edge.

Could 2008 be the year we move from a top-down "Thin Democracy" that keeps most of us trapped in narrow roles as consumers, workers, and voters, to a rich, grassroots-powered Living Democracy in which we fully claim our public lives as citizens, advocates, neighbors, buyers, savers, investors, students, workers, employers, and much more - and help others do the same? Join us Thursday and learn more.

To take part, all you need to do is surf over to http://www.democracyspace.org at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

If you'd like to ask Frankie a question, feel free to email it to me in advance at jfanselow@.... (Please include your name and city and/or organization.) We'll also take questions and comments during the hourlong event as time permits. Hope to "see" you at DemocracySpace on Thursday the 17th!

*******

Julie Fanselow
Writer ~ online organizer
Study Circles Resource Center
jfanselow@...
(208) 859-9006
Boise, Idaho (Mountain Time)

Check out our new blog at http://www.democracyspace.org
Save the date for our national meeting
"Making Every Voice Matter"
 June 12-14, 2008 in Denver, Colorado

NCDD - National Coalition for Dialogue and Delibration (http://www.thataway.org/). The organization is having it's national meeting here in Austin this fall. (10/3 - 10/5)

Paul Schumann
512.632.6586

Sandy Heierbacher <sandy@THATAWAY.ORG> wrote:

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:52:28 -0500
From: Sandy Heierbacher <sandy@THATAWAY.ORG>
Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] need your help identifying conservatives who support D&D
To: NCDD-DISCUSSION@LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG

Hi, all!  Susan Clark and Jacob Hess - two members of the 2008 NCDD conference planning team - would really like your help with something.  If you have feedback or ideas for them, please submit a comment on the blog post about this at www.thataway.org/events/?p=42

 

Dear NCDD community,

Among the many preparations for the upcoming NCDD conference in Austin, Sandy has asked a few of us to brainstorm and move forward plans to increase the participation of conservatives at the conference and also to facilitate liberal-conservative dialogue. Given our track record for attracting conservatives to past conferences, we need your help as we explore ways of involving more conservative dialogue practitioners – and potential practitioners.

 

Some of our main ideas to date:

 Identify and make visible dialogue projects that include conservative leadership – and/or explicit bi-partisan leadership.

 Plan a plenary session at the conference that provides a forum to address increasing polarization in the media and the need for dialogue between people with traditionally “liberal” and “conservatives” views.

 Identify and reach out to specific conservatives who are or could be interested in the work of NCDD.

One workshop idea is to use evaluation findings from the liberal/conservative dialogue course at the University of Illinois as a stepping off point for a discussion of how to “frame” dialogue in a way that avoids inadvertent cues that would turn off conservatives.  And we thought you might enjoy reading this student’s quote about the class:

“Before this class, I went through the logic of conservatives and would think, "They have to be crazy!"  From this experience, it's great to know half of the world is not nuts.  You don't get this on TV—they're goofy on both sides there.   But from this class, I better understand now the conservative logic; I may not agree, but it makes more sense.” 

We send this note in hopes of tapping into your collective NCDD wisdom.  We’d love your suggestions on specific projects to highlight (in workshops, or as something to receive an NCDD award) and/or practitioners or community leaders who should be invited to the conference.  Plus we welcome any other suggestions you have on this issue.

With wishes for a happy new year,

Susan Clark, Common Knowledge

Jacob Hess, ABD, Univ. of Illinios

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:52:28 -0500
From: Sandy Heierbacher <sandy@...>
Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] need your help identifying conservatives who support D&D
To: NCDD-DISCUSSION@...

Hi, all!  Susan Clark and Jacob Hess - two members of the 2008 NCDD conference planning team - would really like your help with something.  If you have feedback or ideas for them, please submit a comment on the blog post about this at www.thataway.org/events/?p=42

 

Dear NCDD community,

Among the many preparations for the upcoming NCDD conference in Austin, Sandy has asked a few of us to brainstorm and move forward plans to increase the participation of conservatives at the conference and also to facilitate liberal-conservative dialogue. Given our track record for attracting conservatives to past conferences, we need your help as we explore ways of involving more conservative dialogue practitioners – and potential practitioners.

 

Some of our main ideas to date:

 Identify and make visible dialogue projects that include conservative leadership – and/or explicit bi-partisan leadership.

 Plan a plenary session at the conference that provides a forum to address increasing polarization in the media and the need for dialogue between people with traditionally “liberal” and “conservatives” views.

 Identify and reach out to specific conservatives who are or could be interested in the work of NCDD.

One workshop idea is to use evaluation findings from the liberal/conservative dialogue course at the University of Illinois as a stepping off point for a discussion of how to “frame” dialogue in a way that avoids inadvertent cues that would turn off conservatives.  And we thought you might enjoy reading this student’s quote about the class:

“Before this class, I went through the logic of conservatives and would think, "They have to be crazy!"  From this experience, it's great to know half of the world is not nuts.  You don't get this on TV—they're goofy on both sides there.   But from this class, I better understand now the conservative logic; I may not agree, but it makes more sense.” 

We send this note in hopes of tapping into your collective NCDD wisdom.  We’d love your suggestions on specific projects to highlight (in workshops, or as something to receive an NCDD award) and/or practitioners or community leaders who should be invited to the conference.  Plus we welcome any other suggestions you have on this issue.

With wishes for a happy new year,

Susan Clark, Common Knowledge

Jacob Hess, ABD, Univ. of Illinios

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From: John Renesch <John@...>
Subject: season's greetings
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:48:20 -0800

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