Opening Space on the Gulf Coast

[Chris Macrae]

 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, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk 
http://goodmap.blogspot.com http://clubofdc.blogspot.com
Quoting Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net>:

> 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!
> 

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