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Opportunities for Deeper Engagement - Summer '06
This summer there are multiple opportunities popping up for deeper engagement around issues that matter. Here are three that have come to our attention most recently; all look amazing in their own way:Reimagining New Orleans
May 25-28, Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland NC
In a new initiative aimed at reviving civic engagement and civil society, Second Journey will convene a COUNCIL OF ELDERS charged with Reimagining New Orleans. Ironically, great national calamities, such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, also contain the seeds of great opportunity in the deep sense of solidarity and civic engagement they foster. The May 25-28 Council will invite a diverse group of participants to reexamine fundamental aspects of the American social contract and confront environmental and social realities made starkly clear by Katrina.
Our national debate thus far has focused on the question, Can we save New Orleans? By asking a different question, Can New Orleans save America?, we arrive at a different truth: namely, that we cannot reimagine New Orleans without also reimagining America. The Council will be held at Wildacres Retreat Center in western North Carolina and is limited to 40 participants, a quarter of whom will come from the Gulf Coast region.
See http://www.secondjourney.org/NewOrleans.htm
2006 Authentic Leadership Summer Program Global Village Square
June 16-18, 2006 Halifax, Nova Scotia
As leaders from diverse contexts, where can we bring our stories and questions, our hopes and fears, and our impossible challenges? Where will the elders, the young people, and the middle generations gather, so that they can better understand their contribution to the whole village? Please join us in the village square. A global village square will form in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this June. We will come together as a multi-generational gathering of peers who are being called to respond to some of the pressing community and global challenges of our time.
For more information: www.shambhalainstitute.org/global_village.html Or call: 902-425-0492
The Shambhala Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Global Village Square is part of the Authentic Leadership Summer Program, which also includes a five-day Core Program, June 18-24. Presenters include Peter Senge, Margaret Wheately, Hunter Lovins, John McKnight, Christina Baldwin, Adam Kahane, and others at the vanguard of authentic leadership for organizational and social change.
Summer of Resistance to the Iraq War
Summer of 2006, Washington DC
This summer, a consortium of local and national activist groups has initiated a Summer of Resistance to the Iraq War, inviting young people to Washington to learn a range of skills for resisting the war, learned in process as they hit the streets in various creative ways with their peace message. Youth will reclaim public space and use political art forms like guerrilla theater and will organize demonstrations and direct actions. Sponsoring groups include Peace Action, CodePink, AFSC, Nonviolence International, and the Washington Peace Center . Participants will benefit from hundreds of years of collective organizing experience and will be provided with materials and training.
To friends in activist organizations:
Please endorse this Summer of Resistance! Endorsement can range from simple verbal support for our mission to stop the Iraq war through nonviolent resistance to an array of contributions in resources or staff. Can your group provide a part-time paid internships for participants in our program, or donate financial resources to this six-week program?. Please assist with any of: Meals, Presentations, Supplies, Cash, Program promotion, Housing, Internship & employment opportunities
TO JOIN THIS EFFORT to stop the war:
http://www.summerofresistance.org
.: posted by Claudia Horwitz, 4/26/2006 02:15:00 PM