<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd8df9a9cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yes, Karen, thanks for sending, and for caring for us. the video is remindful of a proposal from 1971 to the Rockefeller Foundation: <div><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Tauri, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">“The Ecumenical Institute of Chicago designed a three year grassroots social research project aimed at the problem of providing the “local man” with a practical comprehensive vision of the new social dynamics emerging in our day which will enable him to understand the trends of the time, motivate him to engage himself in shaping those trends and to provide him with some basic tools to effect that engagement.” <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=14DMjajV6vAfK0KAS6DkwGJ1J-EgNyJ0N" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; color: rgb(32, 60, 84); cursor: pointer;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(from a proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation)</a></p><div style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; font-family: Tauri, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YiqDIqpCwFSXw5uCJbaICMYrSKI-3EKY" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; color: rgb(32, 60, 84); cursor: pointer;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“…I am glad you gave that nine thousand dollars”</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpd8df9a9csignature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://partnersinparticipation.com/james-wiegel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jim Wiegel </a> <br><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;" dir="ltr" class="ydpa512fec3MsoNormal"> </p><div> <span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;" class="ydp209e23c4MsoNormal"><span>The
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On Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 08:11:11 PM MST, carletonstock--- via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sending this, Karen. With all the troubling news about climate change and what we can do about it, it is good to be reminded that both with the top down approach (recent progress at the COP28 UN Climate Summit in Dubai) and the bottom up approach (grassroots organizations at the local, regional, and state levels around the world working tirelessly to address global warming), progress is being made! Will we do it in time? The jury is still out!</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Keep up the good work!</div><div dir="ltr">Carleton Stock</div><div dir="ltr">St. Louis, MO, USA</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 09:06:26 PM CST, Karen Snyder via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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