1998-07-13 Jan Slakov Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 15:00:12 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: Bill Ellis <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re:Introductions Jan asks for introductions: I (Bill Ellis) am a physicist, futurist, farmer, living in the house is was born in in a small Maine town (1000) in the lake, mountin forest, region on the Canadian border. My … Read more
1998-07-12 Jan Slakov Dear rn list, July 12 In discussions at the Bear River workshop, it became clear that a big part of our efforts, at least for now, will be educational in nature. One of our aims is to help people gain a better understanding of how the corporate elite agenda is being pushed … Read more
1998-07-12 Jan Slakov Nergis Irani is a housewife and environmental activist in Dahanu (just over 100 km north of Bombay on the west coast of India). I am sure that, reading the brochure from the Dahan Takula Environment Welfare Association (DTEWA) below, many of you will find, as I did, that her experience has much … Read more
1998-07-09 Jan Slakov Dear rn list, July 8 First, I think it is important to share some decisions we reached on terminology: The name “CADRE”, which was an interesting acronym for “Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance” is no more. “CADRE” and the word “manifesto” have too many unwelcome associations for many people so we felt … Read more
1998-07-08 Jan Slakov Dear Renaissance Network subscribers, July 8 The “Bear River Sessions” are now over.(A note about the name: We thought of calling these the “Bear River Sessions” as we chuckled over how, from a certain perspective, our effort ressembles that of the corporate elites we object to: a small elite meets with a … Read more
1998-06-27 Jan Slakov Dear friends, This is Richard Moore, still sharing Jan’s email account in Nova Scotia. Mark Whitaker sent in this very interesting article from the LA Times, which I’d like to share with you. It talks about a growing opposition from ‘the right’ to corporate globalization. It reminds me of one of Carolyn … Read more
1998-06-24 Jan Slakov (From Richard K. Moore @Jan’s) Dear friends, This is Richard using Jan’s email system, as I haven’t been able to get my mac to connect while on the road. It is _so wonderful to get to know Jan in person after all these months of intense email collaboration. She is a _gem … Read more
1998-06-15 Richard Moore Dear friends, Tomorrow is `departure day’ for three weeks in N America, a chance to meet lots of wonderful new people, and hopefully the beginning of a new kind of momentum toward our goal of a `democratic renaissance’. Below is an excercise in `endeavor analysis’, starting with an assumption of a particular … Read more
1998-06-14 Richard Moore From: <•••@••.•••> Message-ID: <•••@••.•••> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:57:15 EDT To: •••@••.••• Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Re: “WHY SOCIAL REVOLUTION IS NECESSARY” Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 84 Would you please repost this article Thanks ———————————————————————— X-From_: •••@••.••• Sat Jun 13 03:55:21 1998 X-Sender: •••@••.••• … Read more
1998-06-14 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— To: •••@••.••• (Richard K. Moore) From: •••@••.••• (Dave Morris) Subject: Re: “WHY SOCIAL REVOLUTION IS NECESSARY” Cc: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:32:02 +0100 —<snip of rkm remarks>— We believe that State power is a major part of the fabric of oppression and exploitation, and always has been, so therefore … Read more