A new world order

30 January 2009

Dave attended a two-part seminar called ‘Global crises: cross-networking space to discuss alternatives' that aimed to bring together networks working on a range of issues, including gender, trade, water, finance, environment, housing, multination companies and more. It was a hard slog - the meeting lasted six hours and was held in three languages -- but there was a remarkable amount of agreement among the participants and were able to draw up principles for an alternative global economy and society. It was a really interesting meeting, and there seems to be a shared agreement that we need to come up with a coherent vision for the world. Before we can begin the process of building another world we need develop an idea of what it wiil look like and this was one of the first steps towards achieving that.