Wherever you are, you can join the #NatGat conversation!
Below are the questions we will be posing (and other scheduling notes) for our #NatGat dialogues from 6/30-7/4. You can join us in person at Friends Center in Philly (make your reservation here), on the phone by MaestroConference (register here) or via the our Occupy Cafe #NatGat Forum where there is a discussion thread for each day.
Saturday June 30th, 10am-1pm EDT:
Hour 1: What inspires or excites you about Occupy?
Hour 2: What could happen (or has already) to enable you to feel fully engaged and energized as a participant in Occupy? What could happen that would enable groups you are a part of to choose to partner or collaborate with Occupy?
Hour 3: If our success was completely guaranteed, what bold steps might we take?
Forum thread for these questions here.
Sunday July 1st, 1-4pm EDT:
- Hour 1: What challenges and opportunities do you see in the quality of the personal relationships we are developing in the Occupy context and beyond?
- Hour 2: What assumptions do we need to test or challenge in thinking about tension between "reformers" and "revolutionaries" that has emerged via the Occupy movement?
- Hour 3: What did we learn from the experience of the encampments that can inform a new iteration of community building that has the power to transform our world?
- Satellite groups participating:
Forum thread for these questions here
Monday July 2nd, 9am-12pm EDT:
(possible extension to 1pm)
Conversation Menu
- Hour 1: TBA
- Hour 2: TBA
- Hour 3: Occupy Authority (patriarchy/feminism)
- Hour 4 (if available): Occupy Authority continued
- Satellite groups participating:
Tuesday July 3rd, 9am-3pm EDT:
- 9am-12pm EDT Conversation theme: #NatGat meets the Middle East
- 1pm-3pm: Fem GA vision statement deliberation
Wednesday July 4th, 9am-12pm EDT:
- A parallel visioning exercise to the one being held on Independence Mall
- Satellite groups participating:?
