Week 14 countdown newsletter -June 29 Dr Yunus Dialogue Dhaka

[christopher macrae]

Week 14 countdown newsletter to Yes We Can and Micro-Up youth dialogue being hosted in Dhaka by Muhammad Yunus and microcredit leaders 29th June 2009 (please note date change which is now 100% final)    1.1 Typical News of week 14.   Lot of momentum expected to connect round Microcredit’s pop group TheGreenChildren  as best in class virtual tools, micro uni clubs and album launch start to come together  http://twitter.com/greenchildren   Speaking in Tokyo, Dr Yunus :  the ongoing worldwide downturn is an opportunity to build a more people-focused financial system, not one "based in a fantasy economic world." "The financial system has to be totally redesigned," he said. "This financial system didn't work for the people anyway. It worked for the rich people, yes. Big business, yes. But not for people in general."   Rumors have it that grameen bank may spread to 3 new US locations including Omaha with interest being shown by susan a buffett (daughter of ...)   Great sam daley-harris speech made recently in sao paulo  1.2 Upcoming events by, with or for MicroYouth   Penn Uni Annual Microfinance meet March 3 http://www.pennmicrofinanceconference.com   Delhi march 31 conference with http://www.microfinancefocus.com/index.php/component/content/article/23 Prof. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Laureate of 2006 and our Chair Smt. Ela. R Bhatt –looks great – do tell us if you know of anyone who can file us a report _ I am not sure what were the 5 best 20th century human system-transformation happenings but I’d rate Gandhi and Microcredit as two of them   April 14 Breakfast collabopration cafe New York now confirmed – exact location/time soon , Paul Rose http://www.paulrose.org/  will be hosting a collaboration cafe with our New York friends       0.0 If you have suggestion of content links to this newsletter please email by Friday midday Washington DC time ( 5.00pm GMT ).  Typically the newsletter will be edited and sent out during that weekend   1.0  work on 100 intercity/nation future capitalism blogs in progress – if you want to co-edit your city’s connections say where – examples http://clubofnewyork.blogspot.com  http://clubofparis.blogspot.com http://clubofkenya.blogspot.com  http://clubofbrazil.blogspot.com  http://clubofdc9.blogspot.com ... http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com/       2.0 Microfinance’s march issue on human capital of microcredit is cool http://www.microfinancefocus.com/archives/mf_march_2009.pdf -congrats to peter B and jerry P for all the work