Emergency to Emergence

PeaceWeek Delaware October 8, 2020

Peace Week Intro-  Beth Kopicki

                               From Emergency to Emergence

"We are called upon to be the architects of our future, not it victims, " Buckminster Fuller

Agenda Preview

Music:  "People Have the Power," Patti Smith,  link to site

Gathering: Introductions and why you signed up for this session.

Exercise: Imaging a Positive Vision of the World in 2050

Exercise: Spaceship Earth Emergency


                                            Rick's Rap

 The possibilities of a crisis: the Peace Pilgrim meets Al Gore

Thank You to David Korten and Yes!Magazine

• David Korten, "From Emergency to Emergence,: Yes! Magazine: Journal of Positive Futures, April 23, 2020, Link to article

• Overton Window  = Out with Keynes and in with Milton Friedman/Neoliberalism, out with Milton and in with ???????

• "Yes! Magazine: A Journal of Positive Futures,"  Link to site

• Sheri Berman, "Crisis only Sometimes Lead to Change. Here's Why," Foreign Policy,  Link to article

The Great Realisation 2020 - To be WOKE

• Tania Sheko, "The Great Realisation "poem Link to site

•  "The Great Realisation," video, Tom FooleryLink to Site

Stories of Paralysis, Polarization and Transformation

    • Cyprus: "Dr. J  Saves the Day"

    • AVP Croatia: "The squatter Colonel encounters the owner"

Visioning the Future 

• Rob Hopkins, "A walk through a day in 2030," link to video

• Alexandria Octavio Cortes, "Message from the Future," The Leap & Intercept, 2019 Link to video

• Naomi Klein, "A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair," The Leap &Intercept, 10/2/20 Link to video

•  Bill McKibben, "Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the worst of Climate Change- But Everything is Different," Time Magazine , 9/12/19 Link to site

• Hazel Henderson, Fritjof Capra, "A Pandemic in Retrospect - Looking Back on the Coronavirius from 2050," Common Dreams, March 19, 2020 Link to article


Economic Inequality

• Kate Aronoff, "With a Green New Deal, Here's What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation," The Intercept, 12/5/18 Link to article

• Washington Center for Equitable Growth link to site

The Green New Deal (Climate Change  & Economic Inequality)

•"The Green New Deal explained", Vox video, June 12, 2019 Link to video

•"Inside the Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put the Green New Deal on the Map, NBC News, March 2019 Link to article

Climate Change

• Project Drawdown, Link to site

"The Drawdown Review," Project Drawdown, Link to site

The New Economy

• Next System Project Link to site

• Gar Alpervitz, "The Rise of the New Economy Movement," Alternet, 5/22/12, Link to site

• Gus Speith, "Manifesto for a Post Growth Economy," The Donella Meadows Project," 9/21/12 Link to site

• Editors, "Covid-19 and the Next Evolution of Economics," March 31, 2020 Link to article

 Transition towns:  "From What is to What if"

• Rob Hopkins, "From What is to What if: Unleashing the Power of the Imagination to create the Future that We Want," Chelsea Green, 2019

• wikipedia, Transition Town, Link to site

• Wilmington in Transition, Link to site

• Rob Hopkins, "The Sustainable Future Town of Your Imagination," Yes! Magazine, 10/16/20, Link to site

 Role of Nonviolence

• Erica Chenoweth, "The Success of Nonviolent Resistance, TED TalkLink to video

• Bill McKibben, "How the Many Can Overcome the Ruthless Few," The Nation , 11/3016  Link to article

• Movement for a Culture of Peace, Pacem in TerrisLink to site

 • Nonviolent Wilmington Link to site

• Pace e Benne Link to site

• Alternatives to Violence Project Link to site

Racial Justice 

• Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice Link to site

• YMCA, "21 Day Challenge for Racial Equity," Link to site

• YMCA, "Dialogues to Action," Link to site

Finding Steady Ground - Creating Resilience

Daniel Hunter, "Finding Steady Ground"Link to site

• Staci K. Haines, "How to Nourish Your Resilience in a Time of Trauma," YES!Magazine, 9/30/20 Link to site

• Joanna Macy and Sam Mowe, "The Work That Reconnects,"  The Buddhist Review:Tricycle,  Spring 2015, Link to article

Exercise: Tools for Resilience

Rick's Closing  "Just Do It!- Lessons from Kozeric

• George Lakey,  "What Role Were You Born to Play in Social Justice?' Waging Nonviolence, 2/3/16 Link to article

• Susan J. Douglas, "The Forgotten History of the Radical Elders of the Tribe," NY Times, 9/8/20 Link to article

Closing: Something I learned tonight was...


"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." 

Arundahti Roy 


" I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

Mother Teresa





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