Fwd: I need your input
Jeffery J. Smith
Begin forwarded message:Date: January 16, 2015 at 9:19:38 AM PSTFrom: "Alanna Hartzok" <ala...@centurylink.net>To: "Michael A. Lewis" <mle...@hunter.cuny.edu>, "Eri Noguchi" <en...@columbia.edu>, "Steven Shafarman" <st...@FlexAware.com>, "Murphy Jason" <murph...@Elms.edu>, "Mark Witham" <mwi...@basicincomeproject.org>, <sss...@gmail.com>, "Michael Howard" <michael...@umit.maine.edu>, "Jeffery J. Smith" <j...@geonomics.org>, "Karl Widerquist" <ka...@widerquist.com>Subject: Re: I need your input
I need your input on the following editorial. It's an announcement of the Activists Meeting at the Brooklyn Commons in New York. I don't know much about how we should do this. I'm promising to organize the space and moderate the discussion. Mark do you have any details we can add about how you'll get people connected online? Anybody have any idea about how to get acivists there? I don't know whether anyone will come or not. One person has already asked me for a place to stay, and I don't even know activists in the area who might be able to do that. I think we should provide a space to facilitate the discussion, but I really don't know how to go about it.
So, I guess my questions are two:
1. How (if at all) should I change the announcement below.
2. How best can we plan for this? What help do y'all think we need and what can you give?
Thanks,
KarlEditorial: Basic Income Activists Meeting in Brooklyn, New York and on the Internet, March 1, 2015
With interest in Basic Income taking off and activists groups forming and become more active around the world, interest in the formation of an American movement is growing. The USBIG Network has been around since December of 1999, but it is not an activists’ group. Its goals have been to increase discussion and research into the topic. To have an activists’ group, either USBIG will need to change or a new, additional group will have to form. At the occasion of the 14th Annual North American Basic Income (NABIG) Guarantee Congress, USBIG is organizing a public discussion on this issue. We invite everyone who is interested in discussing this issue to come and anyone who is interested but can’t be there in person to participate online (we’ll announce details about how the meeting will be connected to the web later). We’ll have pizza and drinks. We’ll take up a collection to pay for them, but they’ll be distributed unconditionally—even to those unwilling or unable to contribute to the costs.
As conference organizer, I have volunteered to moderate the discussion, but I have taken myself out of the running for any role in any leadership or any organization that might emerge. The meeting has no agenda; no list of speakers. I have no idea what (if anything) will come out of the meeting. Let’s get together; talk it over; and see what happens.
Time & date: 6:30pm, Sunday March 1, 2014
Location: The Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 (easy to get to by subway from the rest of New York City)
Contact: Ka...@widerquist.comIf people want to come, you can just show up.
If you can help with the advanced planning, contact me. If you have a place in the city where you can put people up who are coming to town for the meeting, that would be great, let me know. If you’re looking for a place, let me know, we’ll see if we can help.
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