Over the last five days, in a sleepy part of Switzerland, we brought together members of the Occupy Movement, the Pirate Party and some of the biggest political NGOs for the first time, ever. We also invited some edgy film makers, alternative-thinking academics, popular online journalists and controversial bloggers to sit in. The odd banker was asked to take part too. And also a radical feminist from Ukraine, famous for grabbing the headlines topless.
All those who came to the meeting had two things in common. There were all in their 20s or 30s. And they were all passionate about wanting to change the world....
We had representatives from more than 40 countries – not only the mainstream countries of America, Germany and Japan but also from Namibia, Iran and Bolivia, countries less used to being given an equal voice when it comes to driving the international agenda. We had green party politicians from Australia, environmental lobbyists from China and animators with something radical to say from Venezuela.
We started by inviting Holocaust survivors, climate change scientists, economists, politicians, writers and religious thinkers to give us their perspectives on the world and its future.Cassandra's Legacy
Occupy is not dead, just resting
Graeme Maxton
"We had green party politicians from Australia ..."
ReplyDeleteSo neoliberals were well represented then. :)
It's more like they are back to the drawing board.
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