This event will be a moderated, but open, public discussion, in a relaxed environment, but with a serious purpose. The Occupy Wall Street movement has pulled a global trigger. A movement with a global dimension that aims at the central mechanisms and forms of today's capitalism, a movement that has broad and deep appeal, yet contains a true anti-capitalist and revolutionary dimension. A movement that has poured in the from the m...argins where those questions we are not meant to ask are quarantined: why is so much money, power and influence accumulated in the hands of so few? Why are they so profligate and systematically irresponsible with that power? Why have we invested our labour, minds, hopes and aspirations in a system that manifestly can neither support itself, ourselves or the planet on which we live. Who are those bastards, and how can they be dethroned, and that power redistributed, redesigned, made palpably democratic on a massive scale?
In the age of climate change, in the age the continued meltdown of capitalism, we need a movement like this. Yet, if #Occupy is the seed, is the possibilit, then we have a great responsibility to nurture its growth in the best possible direction. We need to think through it roots, its operations, it limitations, the different paths it could take to success or to failure. This forum, which will be designed to allow as many as possible the opportunity to speak openly and share inspiration, criticism, intuition and insight, is one starting point for that reflection for each of us.
It is one way of expanding the circle around this movement, and of breaking down prohibitions on thought and perspective.
Are you on the cusp of a revolutionary and emancipatory wave?
Maybe the only way to find out is to ask other who have the same suspicion that "maybe"!
P.S. Individuals and groups who come along will be expected to participate in a respectful manner, to realise that listening can be a most effective contribution, and to refrain from any racist, sexist or homophobic remarks or insinuations.