Welcome to the hackpads for our third group conversation, held online through the end of July and live on July 23rd 2014, from 10-11:30am PT/1-2:30pm ET. This pad outlines our call, and serves as the online"home base" for this round of group conversation.
When you think about what is essential to the success of the movements for Thriving Resilience and a New Economy, what key alignments have we established, what tensions need to be resolved, and what deeper inquiries must be undertaken?
Examples
Here are some examples we have gleaned from our movement weaving work to date:
Alignments
"We live in a world that's divisive by design, with an effort to split us into groups of 51 and 49% so that those in power can keep things the way they are. The more that we can find those 80/20 or 99/1 things that unite us, the better. A unified populous is a powerful thing.” +Joe Grafton, AMIBA
A desire for new language to describe these movements that resonates with the mainstream
Recognition that the current system is broken and we need new models that include central tenets of equity and ecological balance.
Tensions
Do we want a single grand narrative or many different ones?
Given the urgent need for change, how much consensus, alignment and strategic thinking do we need at a movement level and how much should we rely on decentralization and emergence?
Are we prepared to let go of"growth" as a core economic principle, and if not, how can we grow in ways that are ecologically sustainable?
"…in terms of the national discourse, we understand that there's an issue of climate change and an issue of inequality… to address inequality sometimes it’s said that we just need to“grow the pie,” but that conflicts with the need for ecological sustainability." +Noel Ortega, Institute for Policy Studies
Areas for Deeper Inquiry
How do we develop new models for collaborative and democratic funding(and bring them to scale), especially in forms that can be employed by institutions that are divesting from fossil fuels?
"What is the best, most effective, most elegant way of collaborating and working together for greatest gain, and what could those systems look like? What's that architecture and communications structure, that's as simple as possible but gives enough bones to the structure so it is coherent and strong? What do the groups on the ground want?” +Carolyne Stayton, Transition US
How do we more fully embed the need for social justice and equity into all our work on behalf of the movement?
7/23 Call flow:
Calling Question and Context