Pennsylvania's other 1 hour freedom space
Chris Macrae
wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
Wed May 3 04:34:00 PDT 2006
http://www.benfranklin300.org/chc.htm
Sorry I did not find out about this earlier in the year, and what a shame the
organiser was not into the open space network (or by the looks of the web in
many actively linking peoples networks)
coffeehousee challenge is a revolution for self-organising (not to say
independence from top-down government that fails community-rising needs) in
Britain enabling anyone to name a one hour controversial debate, host it in a
starbucks, have it propagated through the other co-sponsor networks that
include the Royal Scoeity of Arts - Britain's main association where the great
and the good are challenged by ordinary people and a massive online library of
innovation scripts is available at http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/ltresults.asp?
show=all
another co-sponsor is the online part of the British Broadcasting
Corporation ; the BBC's journalists hosted 3 of last year's coffeehouse
challenges and were surprised to find that the public knew that the lack of
social spaces was root caused by mass media as well as sommercialism taking
over ever city's physical open spaces!
Back to BenFranklin300 - for this to have got started in Pennsylvania , it
would have needed a viral network who loved open space explaining and
propagating the news; that may be why it seems to have only 3 cafes left but
end June its closing time. Perhaps John and anyone in the PA/DA area who loves
opening cafe spaces can contact the local organiser to se if there remains
time to pollinate this seed for liberty and open one hour spaces. Or anyone in
the US could start asking for Starbuck's contact point to ask why not in our
place too
chris macrae
http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com
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