[OSList] Occupy London Stock Exchange

[Annette Zera]

Dear OS Friends

Usually I am a 'lurker' on this site, but this morning I have woken up so
excited I have to do a post.  So, this is about about the Occupy LSX, the
camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral, which as you know is one of many camps
gathering around to world to protest against corporate greed and the
distortions of capitalism.

Occupy LSX is extraordinary and already sufficiently successful to have the
(albeit hedged around) support of luminaries like the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the leader of the Labour party.  I visited the camp twice
last week and was impressed, as others have been in other camps around the
world, at the smart, warm, welcoming self-organising management of a
difficult location with hundreds of people coming and going with both
shared and different intentions and interests.

After chatting to some people on my second visit it was agreed that I would
return the next day, Friday, to facilitate a (ridiculously short Open Space
session. I did and to my delight about 25 people jammed and jostled in a
small drafty tent with an African drumming concert going on outside.  More
people came and went, many joined in for good conversations and at the end
said they wanted more of this kind of gathering.  Afterwards I laminated
the ideas/notes (e.g."what about a *maximum* wage?") so they can be hung up
for others to read and talk about. I was asked to come back next week and
facilitate another session as well as talk about how we might use Open
Space and other approaches to support the movement.

It so happens that I've just returned from a great family trip to San
Francisco (where I met the lovely Lisa Heft, hello Lisa) and Adelaide,
feeling happy but unsure about what I'd be doing over the next few months
as my next assignment (in Thailand) has been washed by floods into next
year.  This feels as if it is meant to be!  I work with a photographer and
designer Richard White and in the next few weeks he is going to set up a
page on my website to record whatever happens. So you can see why I'm
excited!

With very best wishes
Annette

PS Looking forward to seeing and meeting many of you at WOSonOS2012 in
London!

Annette Zera
19 Highbury Terrace Mews
London N5 1UT

0207 690 1495
07951771466

www.gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk
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