It seems like I just got back from one national student gathering, and I’m about to hit the road for another.
This Friday, August 10, a National Student Power Convergence kicks off in Columbus, Ohio:
The Convergence intends to be a space of shared resources, building connections among campus communities through grassroots organizing, as well as utilizing social capital generated through many progressive organizations. Through the Convergence we hope to augment individual organizing efforts; allow students and youth to draw larger, deeper connections to the work they are doing on their campuses; and contextualize their work in the narrative of the broader movement.
The convergence already has more than 250 registrants, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more than a few drop-ins as well. I know a bunch of the folks involved, both organizers and participants, and I couldn’t be more excited to see what they all come up with.
You can see the full schedule here, the convergence website here, and their Twitter feed and Facebook page here and here. The conference hashtag is #HereUsNow.
I’ll be arriving in Columbus on Saturday afternoon, I think, and staying until Tuesday morning. On Monday afternoon at 4:30 I’m appearing on a panel on student activist history with 1960s SDS leader Carl Davidson.
Can’t wait.
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August 8, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Cameron G Wyman
“The People’s New World Order has arrived”, EXPECT US!
We need a highly organized and sustainable National Reform Movement.
The poor design of our government is allowing corruption to take control of it, and causing many of the problems we are concerned about.
The Demand of Occupy and the People of America should be a redesign of our government to embrace a Comprehensive Ethical Governance system (CEGS).
A CEGS will include the best of current, democratic governance, economic, and social systems, while introducing new ideas to redesign the governance structure to protect it against corruption and halt the oppression of the people.
These systems of corruption must be reformed out of existence for the safety of mankind and the proper operation of our World.
This is what our founders think about corruption in governance.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
LINCOLN’S FAMOUS QUOTE AND ITS INSPIRATION:
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
It’s time to evolve our governance to the next level, and be ready to deal with the challenges of the 21st century.
“The People’s New World Order has arrived”, EXPECT US!