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In November we plan to have a strategy dinner at Gus'. Charles is going to prepare Chinese finger food (dim sum) and we want to invite some "outsiders" and do some networking. Charles had the idea after all the active email discussions going on about parecon. Mostly Mark, Charles, Reinhold Klett und Fabian Betz exchanged ideas on social activism and parecon.
Here are some thoughts on how this evening might be designed. Basically there will be great food but it won't be a sit-down-at-table type of thing. Rather people should be encouraged to get into discussions. Of course we can't tell people what to talk about but maybe in the invitation we could make some suggestions:
- What are your basic ideas about how to change our society? What are the basic "evils" of our day and age? ((I think the attendees will all agree that there are some serious problems with the way our society is organized and some major things need to change.)
- What can the individual do to make a difference? How can we encourage self-determination/empowerment/activism?
- What can we do at the local level to move towards such common goals as citizen involvement (Bürgerbeteiligung), grass-roots democracy, cooperation, solidarity