Washington is certainly a possibility -- but I would think later in the game. If we actually did some work with actual folks along the coast, I think it would fantastic to make it possible for some of them to host a gathering in Washington.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (summer) website www.openspaceworld.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Macrae To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Opening Space on the Gulf Coast Excellent idea. I wonder too whether an open space convened in DC could do some good now. If you think maybe, I am happy to help with sending out invitations- what's the best people's space DC has for Open? Sustainability of States like Louisana needed long-term investment but seem to have lost out in short-term DC/Fed power plays. I am not sure I have ever seen American media take on big politics and big business in the way they have the last week in asking about how slow the response was and why category 4 protection grants have been denied by the feds. As one journalist puts it in a broadcast today: "This is the biggest displacement of people since the American Civil War and it must have political consequences as the people are being scattered across the US." It may be a dream, but I think there could be a different way of governing the United States as a network of states that openly need each other's diversity of cultures, sustained transparently by true investment not speculative forces, and by & for the compound interests of peoples, not just the biggest powers. Would New Orleans be under water today if the toss of the coin that put Bush in power had gone Gore's way. I dunno but some compound policies of sustainability and transparency these last 5 years would have taken the world & the USA to a different space than that we have got. 2 months ago, I thought and still feel that the future plight of Londoners is pretty awful for reasons we peoples have had no vote on; of course, that of New Orleans is a greater conflict but both groups of citizens - and my guess ever more citizen groups are at risk until DC's institutions gets recociled with governing for peoples not over them. Our transparency communities at www.valuetrue.com have started a group to see if that dream can be chatted up into some kind of movement at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/valuationusa/ chris macrae, [email protected] http://goodmap.blogspot.com http://clubofdc.blogspot.com Quoting Harrison Owen <[email protected]>: > When 9/11 happened, after the immediate shock had worn off, I found myself > musing -- "Given what I know/have experienced, what can we do now?" I confess > that the answer to that question was a little slow in coming, but when it > did, the arrival occurred pretty much in the nature of a blinding flash of > the obvious. Open Space! And I did my best to spell out the details in what > became, "The Practice of Peace." This time around, the old mind seems to have > worked a little bit faster -- or maybe the obvious was just a bit more > obvious -- and the answer is precisely the same. Open Space! > --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
