Learning from Haiti: Seven Ways to Respond to Crises
This article was written for a progressive magazine which asked for an updated version of my earlier essay on the Haitian crisis. http://bit.ly/7pJ0iF I decided that rather than updating it I would...
View ArticleAreas for Strategic Action to Enhance Societal Collective Intelligence
I believe that any person or group wishing to catalyze the emergence of a sustainable civilization must take strategic action to enhance the collective intelligence of entire societies. (NOTE: The...
View ArticleSeeking leverage for deep transformation
I have long been fascinated by efforts to clarify which approaches to change work are most needed and effective. Among my favorite models are: * Donella Meadows' Twelve Leverage Points to Intervene...
View Article#Occupy - a dance of inspiration and strategy
Here are some more good articles and websites about the Occupy Together movement, the global extension of Occupy Wall Street. In this posting there are a number of pieces about strategy and tactics -...
View Article#Occupy Together - emerging patterns and suggestions
I'm beginning to sense a progression of developments that may productively unfold in, through, and because of the Occupy Together movement. It is still somewhat vague, but something like it is...
View Article#Occupy the future together
Things are still wildly bubbling in and around the Occupy movement, which is still radically expanding and evolving. Despite many growing pains, the co-creative, committed engagement of the...
View Article#Occupy Weekly Sparks = We Can Do It All
Much has been said about the Occupy movement's lack of demands and vision. Some say it will have no impact unless it makes demands and organizes to make sure those demands are met. Others respond that...
View ArticleOrigins and Future of #OWS
Where did the Occupy Movement come from and where is it going? The following New Yorker article is a good complement to the Bloomberg Businessweek article on David Graeber that I referred to in an...
View ArticleExploring full-spectrum social betterment and a remarkable being
All around us we see many approaches to social change and transformation, including political advocacy - letter, phone and petition campaigns, demonstrations, political art and music, etc.; spiritual...
View ArticleSources of the Occupy Movement - Part One
This is the first of a series of postings I'll do about the sources of the Occupy movement, from a number of angles. Each mailing will cover one or two of them. They are, of course, not definitive or...
View ArticleSources of the Occupy Movement - Part Two
Let's take a look at the influence of activist arts and video game culture - and the novel idea that fun and social change are a marriage made in heaven. One of the trademark characteristics of Occupy...
View ArticleStrategies to rein in corporate power?
There are many emerging strategies to counter corporate control of our political life (quite in addition to efforts to counter their control of our economic lives). Seeing this as a necessity if we...
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