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Frank Hilliard
by Katrin Ogilvy 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Sympathy Dear Aimee and Li Lin, dear Colleagues, I am sad to hear about Frank's passing. The memory of the 1968 Europe Trek with Frank, Rod, Rose and George stayed in my heart. Frank was an exemplar to me. Grace and peace, Katrin Ogilvy Melbourne, Australia

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Re: [Dialogue] Visionary Organizing
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Bill and Gordon, Thank you both for your exciting work and for this sharing. Blessings, Jann McGuire In a message dated 6/8/2012 8:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bparker175(a)cox.net writes: Gordon, et al, 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. 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. 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. We are going to have a major organizing effort to create many study group of Eboo Patel's book ACTS OF FAITH 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. 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. 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 Oc cupy 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. As Marjorie Kelly said in her book THE DIVINE RIGHT OF CAPITAL, 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 OWNING OUT FUTURE, which is the plan for how to do it. Take care and go for it, Bill

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Completed life of Frank Hilliard
by Terry Bergdall 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Aimee contacted Carol Pierce saying that Frank passed yesterday of a heart attack. They were at his Texas home. The funeral will be held there among his family friends perhaps as early as tomorrow. At a later date, a memorial service will be held in Chicago. As more information will be posted once it becomes known. Grace and peace, Terry

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Re: [Dialogue] Visionary Organizing
by David Walters 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

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Hack job.
by R Williams 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Just wanted to let everyone know my email has been hacked. I will never send anything with (no subject) in the subject line. Sorry for the inconvenience. "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)

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(no subject)
by R Williams 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

http://mamendiazalersi.com/wp-content/themes/thecoy/myinfo.php?string207.jp…

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(no subject)
by R Williams 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

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Visionary Organizing (Bill Parker)
by steve har 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Regarding Visionary Organizing Randy Williams found an equally interesting piece here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjhNrNX34Ctl9EcWuafNN4W1oDIYlnL0PT0qm2Z… 1st 2 sentences "Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future". There is a related point not either/or either onsite or online but onsite<--->online. Doing a program in one little corner of the universe without sharing it is just plain parochial or worse a little bit stingy. Here is an example of local<->global sharing where someone picks up on ICA's work with participatory methods on the West Side of Chicago and contrasts it with Saul Alinsky's organizing. http://the99percent.com/articles/7175/99-Conference-2012-Key-Takeaways-On-M…. Seem's like it might be a useful public reference point for the Accelerate 77 Neighborhoods Program sponsored by ICA-USA this summer. Really interesting exchange Harper & Parker. Hope you guys aren't so busy that there is no space or imagination to share stories and pictures. -- Steve Harrington

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Any one out there . . .
by Lee Early 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

. . . have a copy of Daj Hammarskjold's poem from "Markings" on not giving up? Lee

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Re: [Dialogue] Go Gordon!
by David Walters 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Two quations: 1. Can Gordon or some one tell more about the commotion Gordon caused at the ToP meeting. Any video available. 2. What does a 69 year old fart look like? -David Walters --- stevehar11201(a)gmail.com wrote: From: steve har <stevehar11201(a)gmail.com> To: dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: [Dialogue] Go Gordon! Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:25:35 -0500 What a mensch Gordon is! Still practicing being in the game being a social pioneer even with -- gasp 20 somethings. Shades of HR Neibhur addressing the needs of the times. Still willing to have integrity Integrity. Yes, that Joe Mathews Invention. My personal working definition: what you say is what you do; what you do is what you say, except when it isn't and then I get to clean up the mess, --- 100% free, a100% responsible. Gordon It must be exhilarating being with 20 somethings engaged, fearless. Tell us a STORY! Better yet make a YouTube or a VoiceThread.com, 21st C style. Make the local story sing a global song. By the Way...Ellie Stock is working on an Internet story about Dreaming the Dreamer and it isn't going to live in an email or a text thread. For me, is exhilarating being with 20 somethings on my Stanford University Project Team. They are all about engagement not detachment. On my team are all about making something happen -- not having a bigger better gestalt or a better plan. They are fearless. They are making a software product they don't do "Rusty" they do Jane style we're in this together making something happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDO3ob-4ZY They respect this 69 year old fart when I row the boat as well as they do and when I get tasks done like everyone else. Sometimes they ask me to "navigate" from experience, but they sure don't want some one to "facilitate" from the sidelines, they want someone fully engaged in the task at hand. Here is a piece of their work: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yNi_WmF_qNddSLulOxc1yOYXUeBR72n02wi… Re-reading Jon & Maureens book -the 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator Ch 12 - this morning they say [paraphrasing] If awareness is is about understanding, action is about accomplishing [there are] three issues facing facilitative leaders They all have to do with effective action: -intent [which has do do with changing not planning], -implementation, -impact Re Lee's Dag quote: If you get past the nostalgia and the romantic/poetic words, what you see is a guy who is fully engaged and taking the risks he chooses to take [and in conversation with himself about it]. One time in NYC I met Kofi Annan on his very last day as Secretary-General of the United Nations at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Another guy with an intact value system who chooses to navigate in unsettled waters. Still in the game, long since retired. Thank-you Gordon for your leadership example, for being a guide, a navigator. Hunting for some stories of women navigators - not people of the peanut gallery but people who have an intact value system and lead in un-chartered waters. like the navigators in the Marshall Islands who used to navigate with stick charts and according to Wiegel bounced the babies on their knees and sang songs, teaching the young ones the sound of the wind and the waves. Grace Lee Boggs is a heavy hitter. Wish I could hear a 1st hand story of someone I know. Someone out there like Gordon. If you look at Kaze Gadway, she is hanging out with young-ones too. She might be achieving "universal grandmother status" Anyone know any other female navigators, any other female guides like Kaze? It would be powerful to develop some new leadership examples beyond the stale ones that get shared over and over again. We should do this kind of work now with and for 20 somethings -- and stop trying to amuse ourselves with one more client, just one more consulting contract, just one more set of custom workshop procedures from an unnamed but paying client. The role of Elders is to pass on practices worth practicing not nostalgia and opinions about the way it ought to be. It is past time to pay it forward. I'm getting older by the minute. How about you? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

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