Yesterday I went to UnLtd to find out about their Level 2 funding process. I had previously attended a Level 1 surgery, but found that fairly useless. This was different…

I met lots of interesting people and though the competition is tough, it seems quite likely that I will be able to get grant of upto £20,000 to develop uniteddiversity.

One good contact I made was with Ben Metz who works for the London Community Recycling Network. From what he said, it sounds like he is working on a similar project to Open Food Co-ops

After the UnLtd seminar I head up to The Hub where I met Tav and Tom. Co-incidently, Oli was also there with his Solar Century hat on.

We had a good chat about bits and bobs to do with the various projects we’re involved with and after Oli and Tom left, Tav and I went for an eat-all-you-like Thai veg buffet. Tav and I spoke for hours about past, present and future plans. We had fun discussing how we could finance a world tour of symbiotic engineers.

Our two main ideas were:

1) get people to pay consultancy-like day rates to accompany the leading change makers (me, tav, tom, oli, mark, jonathan etc.) on a tour to create a radically better world.

2) write a brief intro to all the people intending to join the tour, and a clear outline of all the great things we could do together along the way, then use pledgebank, fundable, dropcash, ebay, etc. to get lots of people to donate

We both agreed that doing a pilot trip to Spain next April would be a good first step…

See also:

• Recipe for a New World Order?
• United Diversity Update
• We Have Land!
• News from Caracas…
• Another World Is Blossoming

Come and visit the uniteddiversity stall at the Kalahari Bushmen Benefit @ LSE this Friday night…

Synergy Communities and Tribal Vibrationz Present: Kalahari

Raising money and awareness for the Kalahari Bushmen who are currently locked in a battle with the Botswanan government, fighting for the right to return to their ancestral lands.

Featuring:

:: Tribal Vibrationz room ::

Banco de Gaia - Live DJ set and video show
http://www.banco.co.uk

Gaudi Live Dub Laboratory - 7 piece dub band
http://www.gaudimusic.co.uk

Monkey Pilot (Whirl-y-Gig - Global Trance Dance)
http://www.whirl-y-gig.org.uk

Disco Patrick (Planet Angel - Funked up Breakbeat and Psy-trance)
http://www.planetangel.net/

Psychedelic jungle décor and UV backdrops, Tribal projections and visuals, plus student prices on the bar!

:: Indigenous People room ::

Kakatsitsi, Master Drummers from Ghana in fusion with
Greg Hunter (Matrix Reloaded soundtrack)
African rhythms meet western beats
http://www.indigenouspeople.org.uk

Youth (Dragonfly records - ambient chill)
http://www.youth.me.uk

Noodreem (Sangita Sounds - meditative trance)
http://www.sangitasounds.co.uk

DJ G (EdensoundS - chillout ethnic beats)
http://www.edensounds.net/

African batiques, indigenous artwork, information stalls and raffle, plus hot food and chai stall

Outside: Fire performance with fire eaters and fire poi to drums 11-12.00pm

Drum ‘n’ didj’ circle (Djembes donated by Kakatsitsi)
(Bring your didgeridoo to join the Aboriginal resonance)

@ The London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE

Temple/Holborn tubes

http://www.lsesu.com/

on Friday, 23 September 2005 from 9pm to 3am

£10 (in advance; and for concessions on door)
£12 (door)

Advance tickets from Access All Areas
http://www.accessallareas.org 0207 267 8320

Or call 07989519368 for info and tickets

Profits of this event will be split between Omaheke San Trust, Survival-International and the Synergy community centre.

http://www.santrust.org/

http://www.survival-international.org

http://www.thesynergyproject.org/events/23-9-2005/

Mogetse’s testimony on relocation from the Kalahari:

“I was born in this place and I have been here for a very long time. Now this relocation thing has come, but I don’t have the full truth about it. They come and say that I have to move, that this place is for animals. But why must I move and leave the animals? I was born with them and I must stay with them. I have that right.”

Mogetse Kaboikanyo was a Kgalagadi man who lived alongside the Gana and Gwi Bushmen in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. In February 2002, he was forcibly relocated to a camp outside the reserve. He died just four months later. He was probably in his fifties; his friends said his heart stopped beating. After years of struggling to remain on his land, Mogetse was buried in the desolate relocation camp, far from his ancestors’ graves

Survival and Bushmen info

http://www.survival-international.org/tribes.php?tribe_id=11

BBC’s John Simpson on the Bushmen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4480883.stm

LSE location Map: http://tinyurl.com/7c8rx

See you there,

Josef
–
Josef Davies-Coates
http://open.coop
http://uniteddiversity.com
Together We Have Everything

See also:

• Friday: Kalahari Bushmen Benefit
• Another World Is Blossoming
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Screening
• Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July
• TONIGHT: Another World Is Blossoming

Hello everyone,

The next Creative Regeneration networking meeting and Open Space event will be on Saturday Septemer 17th @ The Synergy Centre.

Creative Regeneration
Networking meeting and Open Space
Saturday September 17th, 2005
11am - 5pm @ The Synergy Centre
220 Farmers Road, London SE5 0TW

Map: http://tinyurl.com/d3bk3

Outline of the day:

11am
Breakfast drinks and registration

*Hand-in/fill-in questionnaires if not already done so

12pm
Opening circle, Session Creation and Sign-up

*Quick 30 second introductions - who are you, why are you here today?

*Introduction to why The Open Co-op is organising these events and an explanation of how Open Space works (the way we’re organising the day)

*Open Space Session Creation and Sign-up - anyone who wants to propose a session on a particular project or discussion topic can do so, and people go to whichever ones they like. Similar sessions are sometimes merged or extended according interest, time and space (in this case, during each of the 3 time slots, there will be upto 6 sessions of 45 minutes each, all running at the same. The whole process is prettyfun, thanks to the law of 2 feet, which states simply: *if at any point you find yourself neither learning nor contributing, use your two 2 feet and go somewhere else!*

1pm
1st Sessions start

1.45pm
Break/transit to next session

2pm
2nd Sessions start

2.45pm
Break/transit to next session

3pm
3rd Sessions start

3.45pm
Break/transit to convergence

4pm
Convergence

*Sharing Sessions

*Closing Circle

5pm
End, Social…then on to a street party at Sanford Housing Co-op

Look forward to seeing you all then,

Please invite people who should be there.

Warm regards,

Josef
–
Josef Davies-Coates
http://open.coop
http://uniteddiversity.com
Together We Have Everything

07800 849 287

See also:

• Creative Regeneration @ The Synergy Centre
• Another World Is Blossoming
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Screening
• alt.SPACE MARATHON - TWO DAY EVENT - July 28-29, 2006
• The London Fund