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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dear
All *<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
may be of interest. A group called the </span><a
href="http://www.tellus.org/index.php"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tellus
Institute</span></a><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
in Boston has created </span><a href="http://www.gtinitiative.org/"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Great Transition Initiative.</span></a><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
This is a growing
international <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">network</span></strong>
of scholars and activists that analyzes
alternative scenarios and charts a path to a hopeful future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
GTI has a current proposal under discussion by
its about 300 ‘Participants’of which I am one. This is to create a
Global
Citizens Movement (GCM) to be launched at the time of the </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">“Rio+20” UN
meeting in 2012, marking the twentieth anniversary of the seminal 1992
Earth
Summit.</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
see that my role is to bring attention to the
‘Process’ dimension of engaging citizenry in matters about which they
feel
passionate and wish to take responsibility for. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See
below for a brief outline of the GCM proposal and
for my recent post on this. If you wish to know more about this project<br>
and about how it develops let me know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
would add that, in furthering my longstanding
search for understanding (<i>knowing what to do next. Wittgenstein</i>)
of self
organising systems and their constructivist underpinnings, <span
style=""></span>I will participate in the </span><a
href="http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">annual
meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics</span></a><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
in late July early Aug in Troy near Albany in upstate New York, all
being well.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
will then go on to Boston to meet with the good
folk at the Tellus Institute. <span style=""></span>Their </span><a
href="http://www.gtinitiative.org/documents/PDFFINALS/2GTToday.pdf"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">most
thoughtful and hopeful essay</span></a><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
is well worth a read imo. <br>
<br>
After which I return to NYC and on to the UK where I will be based for
five
weeks from mid July. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Go
well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Alan<br>
Hong Kong <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
I send my good wishes to you lucky spirits who
will gather at next week’s WOSonOS in Berlin and at the Fringe
satellite event
in Melbourne to experience, enact and extend into multitudinous domains
the
principles which underpin you happening to be present ,,,<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here’s
a summary of the proposal:<br>
<br>
TITLE: The Global Citizens Movement: Launching the Next Phase at Rio+20<br>
<br>
THE CHALLENGE: An essential actor is missing from the world stage: a
citizen-centered movement for a sustainable and just future that
embraces a
vision and strategy matched to the complexity and scale of the historic
task.<br>
<br>
THE AIM: The time has come to launch the next phase in the evolution of
civil
society activism: a mature Global Citizens Movement (GCM) dedicated to
an
overarching agenda, nurturing unity, and advancing a coherent vision of
another
world.<br>
<br>
THE PROJECT: Following a two year preparatory process, a founding
meeting of
the GCM will be held in Rio </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">just prior to the formal “Rio+20” UN meeting in 2012,
marking the twentieth anniversary of the seminal 1992 Earth Summit.</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
<br>
Please read the 4 page attachment for more details. Is this the right
idea at
the right time? Your feedback is critical to making this go – or not. <br>
<br>
Hoping for a little help from our friends,<br>
Paul and Orion<br>
<br>
Paul
Raskin
Orion Kriegman<br>
GTI
Director
GTI Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On 28
April 2010 22:10, GTI
Listmanager <</span><a
href="mailto:GTI.listmanager@forums.tellus.org" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GTI.listmanager@forums.tellus.org</span></a><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">>
wrote:<br style="">
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">From:
"Alan Stewart" <</span><a href="mailto:alanmstewart@gmail.com"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">alanmstewart@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dear
GTI Colleagues<br>
<br>
I support the proposed GCM in the strongest terms. My feeling is that
the time
is right to act on this bold and inspiring approach. I see it as a
truly vital
initiative at this juncture of the perilous predicament of our species
and that
of the whole ecosystem of which we are an integral part.<br>
<br>
I also see that the GTI is the organization which has the vision and
the
capability to enact the process of promoting the 'Massive participation
in
healing the planet becoming a great source of pride for the global
citizenry'.
And would add that your seminal essay 'The Great Transition Today - A
Report
from the Future' has received a lot of attention here in Hong Kong and
the
region.<br>
<br>
I would also add that there are group processes with which to engage
citizenry
effectively, potentially on a large scale (among whom are many who have
no
access to the internet). A nice example of this can be seen in the
'Harrisonburg Summits': </span><small><small><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAtLKZ63u0&feature=related"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAtLKZ63u0&feature=related</span></a></small></small><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
hope that indicating that approaches like this one could be promoted
widely
will become integral to considerations of 'Process' in the final
Proposal on
the GCM.<br>
<br>
Looking forward.<br>
<br>
Go well<br>
Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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