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Follow these links for information concerning the two offerings:
- Virtual Book Study of U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency
- Open Space Technology meet-ups around the query "What's occupying houses of worship?"
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More detail about these are linked here.
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This Beehive Collective graphic "Plan Columbia" is a stand-in for Low Intensity Conflict. Low Intensity Conflict is, along with special forces' operations, under joint command at the under-secretary level of the Pentagon. One of the lessons the military learned from the Vietnam police action was that it can be more free of political consequences if the polices affected are done without directly involving the professional military. The actions in Columbia were complex and multi-faceted, and included leveraging the "war on drugs" to, as is incorporated in this graphic, maintain the extraction and exploitation practices of international corporations relative to their pursuit of profit. |
The Ipse Dixit concept is specifically about a coordinated approach to war tax resistance. It may also be a model for strategic action related to the 5 constitutional crises.
The web-based slide show hosted here at the OpenTo.Info website is Dame Nature's framework for our thinking, feeling, and sense of health as a species.
The solar panel table, battery and inverter are a stand-in for our energy consumption choices relative to a problem that feels as "impossible" as the math in this equation from Bill Gate's TED talk:
Like Pete Seeger's observation about the Hudson River running clean, humanity will either make it happen or there will be no humanity (making the equation work!).
This haiku is my attempt to capture a political framework for networking the evolving #Occupy phenomena that is helpfully different. The rational for this choice, as opposed to the current political-centric framework that is in vogue, is that an alternate political structure needs to be evolving in tandem with the current one. Threats to the existing political and power structures (anthropgenic climate change, peak oil (and its largely unconsidered consequence--peak credit), and the flash-frozen collapsed economic paradigm of globalized capitalism, will, due to their unfolding synchronicity, affect these social structures' demise.
Humanity is hard-wired to have social and/or political identities. Therefore, to improve the possibility that a non-violent journeying into our future can be our way, organizing around Gaia-centric constructs is one which can only help. My bias is that our political identities, and the powers these hold, are part of the thinking that is creating the problems needing to be #Occupied. If Einstein was correct that the thinking that creates a problem cannot be used to create a problem's solution, existing political structures and the thinking they inform are of limited use for redressing these problems. Existing power structures are pretty intractable when it comes to change. Unencumbered with the psychological baggage of the current ones, creating a "powerless" parallel structure is both NOT a threat AND an example; that can be followed.
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The hen and her winter solstice chicks are a stand-in for home-grown food. The current paradigm for producing food for society is one that has a limited relevance in our unfolding future. "Grow-your-own" is a discipline which, while it currently makes no economic sense to do so in the developed world, is fundamental to the change in thinking, feelings, and our sense of health that are needed to function less unsustainably in the unfolding shift in paradigms.
This poster of the impact globalized capitalism has on indigenous people of the planet is a stand-in for the extraction, exploitation and externalization of costs that are inherent to this economic paradigm.
Exploring the query "What's occupying houses of worship?" (virtual or face-to-face) is a facilitation service I am offering (Yes, those are houses, not up-arrows!). I am volunteering to facilitate Open Space Technology meet-ups around this query. The #Occupy phenomena is a reaction to a systemic, and growing, set of injustices (environmental, social, and economic). These are the effect of the current iteration of globalized capitalism. The query, and its focus on houses of worship, is intended to reflect some light into trusted shadows.
This is an offer to any group which would like to engage in such a process. Since the Occupy Wall Street iteration of the #Occupy phenomena did not arise from the traditionally religious sector of our society, and, to the degree the movement is a matter of justice, this lack of leadership begs this question and calls for an exploration of it. From the perspective of the Third World elders participating in the first Earth Summit in Rio twenty years ago, it was voluntary sacrifice and suffering, born of a religious discipline, that offered hope for avoiding the worst of anthropogenic climate change. They, apparently, experienced being religious as incorporating such behaviors as a means of effecting a desired change and justice. They were praying for a religious revival for the First World.
What is the nature of the "religious" revival we have occupied ourselves with these past two decades (and before) that effectively countered their prayers for environmental, social, and economic justice?
This graphic is an updated view of an observation Walt Smith 's cartoon character, Pogo, delivered as part of the first Earth Day in 1971. I feel that graphic and associated cartoon needs to also incorporate a graphic representation of First World "New Age" spirituality. This is because if we can effect a sense of piety without commensurate moral integrity, we are, in fact, our enemy.
Virtual book study of U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency
This is a 1912 publication concerning the proposed legislation that created the Federal Reserve. I feel it is helpful to try to understand this critical view of the Fed from the time of its creation at this time of its flash-frozen systemic failure. Virtual book studies can take whatever shape works best for any who are interested in engaging in one. For the facilitator, it can be as simple as a conversation between two people or a joint conversation affected via a newsgroup, or some other approach or hybrid. Download the book and communicate your interest and preference for doing a book study.
Open Space Technology meet-ups around the query "What's occupying houses of worship?"
Tabling item #9 gives the background and rationale for this query and considering it. If needed, follow this link for more information about the Open Space Technology dynamic for doing so. Whether a meet-up is done face-to-face, or virtually, the "how" and "where" of such an exploration of the query will be different. What is common is the "law-of-two-feet," the self-organizing of the agenda, and the reporting out and sharing of what is workshopped. Make a request and/or seek more information.
These offers are made with the intent of helping the #Occupy phenomena, here in the US, evolve and mature. Because we start from a different set of experiences and resources than the people of the Arab culture who have mentored us in these matters, what will be effective in this culture, relative to change, will likely include steps that others are either ahead on or exempt from. In my experience, citizens of this nation, relative to matters of justice, tend to be psychologically blinded. This is thanks to how our money, which we have and use, limits and controls what can comfortably be conceived; imagined. Hence, the book study, and an expectation that seeing the Federal Reserve Note as something other than what the Constitution authorizes as money, will, if not open doors, crack windows to thinking and feeling, differently; to learning to have a different sense of health.
Accomplishing this change requires a more realistic understanding of what currently constitutes a sense of health, and the feelings and thinking that inform it. When change is desired, knowing where one is starting from is as important as feeling one knows where they want to go. Only with such self-knowledge is it possible to figure out if one's actions are a really a turning away from, rather than another turning toward, that which one wants to change. Since my bias is that one cannot be not religious, and only can become conscious of how one is religious, considering what has been occupying us/US (since the Arab Spring was Arab, not American,) feels like a logical prerequisite to engage in for [religious] choices that are being made to become conscious, rational, and effective.
