Education & Empowerment WG Mtg 7/13/12
07/13/2012 in Education & Empowerment WG
Check-ins: Bill, Heather, John
Agenda:
- Group Logistics — John agreed to be co-point person; Jay agree to step. Convening meetings, sending out info, make sure notes are taken, post to blog. Two decide how to share duties.
- E&E Event in July (?maybe / maybe not?) –
- Inside Job — how corrupt the system is, experts squirm, missed the build up to the crisis, ability of people to know what’s really going on, got an Oscar, very relevant. Also directed by Charles Ferguson, lifetime member of Council on Foreign Relations, interesting how the story is being framed as bad apples that corrupt the system, this is how we got here, these are the bad policies that led to the crisis, not necessarily that the entire system is doing exactly what it’s intended to do, capitalism thrives on crisis.
- Historical context — John and Bill work on a flyer — john due narrative, bill do bullet points.
- Now free on internet — John hasn’t seen it, but telling me what I already know; Heather hasn’t seen it either, but nothing I don’t already know (if not the details, then the concept) and doesn’t answer most compelling question for me (i.e. “and then what,” what do we do about it). Still worth showing, maybe with discussion after.
- FreeRide has projector, maybe show behind FreeRide or other downtown location.
- Debt chart – monetary reform: maybe better as a study group then public event? Need to understand the context of current form of capitalism. Governments captured by corporate power. Debt system has hollowness to it. Credit and banking system is self-expanding but completely hollow. Banks standing in the way of any kind of recovery. Know what to talk about, not sure how to do it. Why not pose it to the group and see what people think in terms of study group or public event?
- Not sure what July holds — maybe movie if can pull it together or debt event if interest. See if John, Jay, and Bill want to pull something together, with Heather enlisting help, if needed. Also the Governor’s convergence on 7/29, so that week is hard, we’d be looking at next week which is unlikely.
- Inside Job — how corrupt the system is, experts squirm, missed the build up to the crisis, ability of people to know what’s really going on, got an Oscar, very relevant. Also directed by Charles Ferguson, lifetime member of Council on Foreign Relations, interesting how the story is being framed as bad apples that corrupt the system, this is how we got here, these are the bad policies that led to the crisis, not necessarily that the entire system is doing exactly what it’s intended to do, capitalism thrives on crisis.
- Report out about NH — connected with people on sea coast who are connected with statewide Occupy in NH, did a bank action, went into a bank and raised a ruckus, passed out flyer. Statewide GA in Concord is going more libertarian, which is not surprising. Sea coast is upset and might disassociate. Isn’t the sea coast area closer to Boston? Do they have connections with Boston? Not sure, folks involved are younger than Bill but good people. Quakers are supportive, but not very active. More like 6-12 activists. Saturday meetings. Tell them about Governors Convergence on 7/29. Heather do a blog post and send to Bill to pass along.
