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Colin M
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On behalf of all the people who helped to make BTC happen this year can I thank all of you who came for the many great comments, encouragement and ideas we have been given.
Some people said they wanted an online home to come and work out how to be the change in and this URL could be it. Tell us what you would like to see by posting a message in the Intitiates and Projects section section.
We need people who will volunteer to stimulate discussion and answer questions on this site. Who are our conversation starters and knowledge gardeners?
Edited by Colin M on 07 May 2005 at 11:04pm
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AnnaPollock
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I've posted a response in the Initiates Section.
Would like to discuss further Colin
Cheers
Anna 
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Michel Ickx
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Anna,
I have answered your message in the Initiates section
Michel
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He drew a circle to keep me out
rebel, heretic, a thing to flout
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle to keep him in
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chris.macrae
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COMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS
I woke up in the middle of the night with the realization that a citizen is in the midst of 3 systems : local, global and national
Which of these systems practice community?
A practical answer that startles me is local (obviously) and global but not national
The global systems I am in may be professional or because of love of a culture or interest or just because the childish (or learning ) dynamic of the human mind has an affinity with exploring and trying to understand diversity across boundaries; these are worldwide communities or networks linking/webbing around the gravity that connects us
National politicians may preach community or culture but what have they been doing to help a citizen harmonise this?
We can use this lens I believe to see how London as one of the most multi-cultured and globally connecting regions has not been helped - I might even say sacrificed - by its national politicians. Clearly in the 1990s when there was more time to think, the view of the citizen's system was well rehearsed by some such as Manuel Castells: The global city is not London, New York, Tokyo or Jo'berg -- it is the part of each which is connected to an analogous part in each of the others. The global city is a distributed phenomenon. There is only one global city, and it floats on top of the others like lace.
BUT WHERE'S THE PRACTICE LEADERS
If you know of anyone who is doing work on why the natures of local and global are communally spirited flows but national (top-down government) cannot be presumed to be so unless it proves its systemic support, I would love to hear of them. I suspect Londoners have to resolve their own ways out of the crisis of being a most globally connecting peoples epicenter on the planet and will not be helped by national politicians in sustaining this future. Knowing those who would power conflict into your midst, (through their own ignorance or the vested interests of other big powers) is the first stage in mapping a better way round. Londoners need a better way than the police state of Friday that executed an innocent Brazilian (shooting him in the head whilst pinioned by 3 police to the floor) and spent 36 hours denying that terror had caused them not to know what they were communally doing.
Chris macrae [email protected] London & DC
http://clubofcity.blogspot.com
http://gravity200.blogspot.com
Edited by chris.macrae on 24 July 2005 at 8:03am
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