<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I can't resist adding news of the occupy movement here in Toronto. I've been part of their organizing group and it has been an interesting journey! </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">The leadership has included the Awaken the Dreamer facilitators, an old ICA guardian, and the occupy group---- which now is called the Unify Movement. We still get bad press but more groups are supporting the movement. The Quaker's supply meeting space and my Unitarian Universalist Church have helped in many ways. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer! I'll keep you posted.</span></div><div><br>Sent from Sandy's iPad<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 2012-06-09, at 1:51 PM, <a href="mailto:LAURELCG@aol.com">LAURELCG@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Bill and Gordon,</div>
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<div>Thank you both for your exciting work and for this sharing. </div>
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<div>Blessings,</div>
<div>Jann McGuire </div>
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<div>In a message dated 6/8/2012 8:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:bparker175@cox.net">bparker175@cox.net</a> writes:</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Gordon, et al,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Very interesting. I knew Robin was in the area
but the thought he might be in your church never occurred to me. Suzanne
taught both of Robin's children in the second grade and Robin's church has
been a part of the founding core of our local effort called VOICE (Voices
Organized In Civic Engagement) organized by the Industrial Areas Foundation
(Sol Alinsky's group out of Chicago). This is the local component of a larger
effort to get at the systemic issues facing the social process called the
Human Community Network.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Other faces of this Human Community Network
include creating at OCU a College of the 21st Century which complements the
academic curriculum and teaching with something like a methods and pedagogy
curriculum designed to prepare grads to step into the emerging generation of
progressive leadership and take charge of systemic model building and change
regardless of their specific areas of study.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Also, for moving our culture toward a culture of
peace we are focused on the interfaith community moving to a common
understanding of life, common action of care and responsibility, and a new
level of honoring the various expressions of the faith
traditions.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">We are going to have a major organizing effort to
create many study group of Eboo Patel's book <em>ACTS OF FAITH</em> and his
work with the Interfaith Youth Core in preparation of his coming to OKC in the
Fall of 2013. This will set the stage for a major development in Oklahoma that
has never before been considered.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">It seems our methods experience through the years
were dramatic rehearsals for what we now have on our hands. The Occupy
movement is symptomatic of the collective mood but it resides below the
conscious thought of those who are enslaved to an isolated individualized
culture, corrupted capitalism, and political impotence. The 99% and 1% image
has changed how people think about our situation whether they are interested
in Occupy or not.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I think we should be far more pro-active with
that network as far as our methods are concerned. We also need to be watchful
about connections. The Occupy movement almost connected with the old, tired,
beaten up unions here in OKC but something happened and it did not work. We
need to figure out what happened. That worker connection is crucial, as is
connecting with the youth's lucidity and disgust with the social process.
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">As Marjorie Kelly said in her book <em>THE DIVINE
RIGHT OF CAPITAL, </em>the people with the power are the workers and the
consumers, contrary to all appearences otherwise and this is true politically
as well. She calls for a cleaning out of capitalism the corruption within it
we generally assume has always been there. It can be clean up! She is also
coming to OKC when we get around to preparing for it. She has another book
just out this month called <em>OWNING OUT FUTURE,</em> which is the plan for
how to do it.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Take care and go for it,</font></div>
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