Agenda for our first “Order Out of Chaos - The Great Transition” meetup.
Date/time: Today, Thursday February 16, 2017 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Crossroads Cafe not far off the Embarcadero at 599 Delancey St in San Francisco
We will gather for informal discussion and sandwiches at 6:00 pm. The structured part of the meetup begins at 6:30 and ends at 8:00 pm.
6:30 to 7:00 : Introductions with questions - up to 5 minutes each - please say something about yourself and about The Great Transition - What is it? What part do you see yourself playing in it?
7:00 to 7:30 : Roger Eaton will present Voices of Humanity as a tool for The Great Transition - questions, comments, conversation welcome.
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We have entered the Planetary phase of human history.
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Us-vs-them economy is destructive and unsustainable - the fate of Planet Earth and Humanity is One - Somehow we need to weave the human economy into the natural systems so that all waste is recycled indefinitely. Is this vision compatible with capitalism and its need for continuous growth of the economy?
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Support for gender equality and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is clearly necessary for a successful Great Transition.
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What is a successful Great Transition? Peace (including nuclear disarmament, which means general disarmament), social justice, freedom and maximization of potential for the individual, and living in harmony with nature
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A nonviolent Global Citizen’s Movement (GCM) that transcends the nations and religions is needed to end the us-vs-them mentality that has us trapped on a destructive road.
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How does Voices of Humanity fit in?
* Communities elect messages - a voice of Women, Men, Humanity-as-one, Youth, Experience, Wisdom - and a voice for each of the nations and religions. By empowering the nations and religions with a collective voice within a network of collective voices capped by the Voices of Humanity, we resolve the us-vs-them problem that we have inherited from the patriarchal past.
* Each new moon, the Voice of Humanity-as-One and the other Voices of Humanity will demonstrate how we are at our best, which is very good indeed! These kindly, intelligent and spirited (in the sense of buoyant) messages will be hugely encouraging for the nascent GCM. Locally around the world, meetups like ours can use the elected messages to decide how to act locally, giving the movement a bottom up coordination that will become stronger over time.
* The resulting sense of human unity that has gender equality as well as respect for the nations and religions built in will underpin the changes we need to make The Great Transition a reality.
7:30 to 8:00 Structured conversation - each of us will set a topic for a five minute conversation.
8:00 adjourn - Cafe is open until 10
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