Fwd - A Global Convergence of Social Movements? May 29, 2011
I appreciate the way it brings various threads together and hope to explore these ideas in more depth as time goes by. (I hope to write more about them in my Dadamacadamy learner's diary - published at http://www.dadamac.net/blog/pamela )
My particular interest is in the emergence of new educational systems, but I find myself also drawn into finding out about the interconnected topics in Joe Brewer's blog below
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A Global Convergence of Social Movements?
In Collaboration, Economic Patterns, Social Change on May 24, 2011 at 6:42 pmWhat will the world look like in 2050? 2070? 2100? It’s impossible to say for sure, especially since the collective impacts of human civilization have altered the state of the world at unprecedented scales. We stand at a cross-roads with an uncertain future. And we have important decisions to make.
In this post, I’d like to suggest a promising path that lies before us. It is a road we can travel down if enough of us choose to do so. Imagine if the major social movements of the world — sustainability, global justice, world federalism, corporation reform, open collaboration, and social finance – were to congeal into a new way of being. There are trends that suggest this is already happening. We can help amplify this convergence. Or we can suppress it.
I’ve been following all of these movements throughout the last ten years and see a new economic paradigm emerging that brings them all together. We can help this process along by familiarizing ourselves with the various social movements that have been on the rise for decades:
More at http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/global-convergence-social-movements/