Occupy Forum: Nuts and Bolts of Transitions of Power: Initiating a Just and Sustainable Society: Part I

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Nuts and Bolts of Transitions of Power:
Initiating a Just and Sustainable Society:  Part I

Now that the shock is beginning to wear off, and reality to sink in, about the Trump/Republican/Oligarchy takeover of our government, we must begin to seriously plan our response. Most of us agree it is not satisfactory to persist in the same strategies and tactics we used before the veil was lifted, and particularly unsatisfying to “try to elect Democrats”. We’ve talked about creating parallel systems where we get our own human needs met, perhaps by ourselves, on smaller scales. We are interested in how the transition to such systems actually takes place. We’ve looked at, and continue to examine, the history of transition for other societies, (eg. Zapatistas, Scandinavia, etc.), where power has been toppled and replaced with socialism, or systems more fitted to meeting the needs of the People.

Monday, we will address these transitions, asking how kings, autocrats, dictators and presidents are actually thrown out… the nuts and bolts of it, and how, again nuts and bolts, a new society is started in the ashes of the old one. For the next three OccupyForums, we will hear about and discuss these ideas. This Monday, Michael Goldstein, (who spoke in March on fundamental social transformation), will present some thoughts and lead the conversation. In the next two OccupyForums, speakers will continue on this theme.

Michael Goldstein is author of the visionary book, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country, which has been endorsed by Michael Parenti, Don Hazen (executive editor of Alternet), and Wavy Gravy, among others. He writes a blog in the Huffington Post, focusing on the need to get beyond the teeter-totter of the two-party system, and a year ago he spearheaded an effort, via BeyondBernie.us, to urge the senator to enable his supporters to find each other and engage in dialog and action to actually build the greater movement he often spoke about.

Time will be allotted for announcements.