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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