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[ChildrensPeaceGuild <childrenspeaceguild@yahoo.com>]

"I am currently dialoguing with the Ecovillage Center (Albert Bates, et al) 
at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee which has hosted many permaculture 
workshops, Gaia University events and the 2009 Bioregional Congress."
 
The Farm would be an excellent site. I know in previous discussions public 
transportation was an issue. Would the closes Amtrak station to The Farm be 
Memphis or Dyersberg?  
-Roman Shapla
Children's Permaculture Guild


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From: Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>
To: Skeeter Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:24 PM
Subject: [permaculture] North American Permaculture Convergence - Coming soon!


Letter from Michael Pilarski and Koreen Brennan re. a North
American (US and Canada) Permaculture Convergence
 
Greetings, fellow permaculturists and world changers,
 
We respectfully invite you to participate in the first ever
North American Permaculture Convergence. There have been many discussions 
about
having such an event for many years. We are initiating the process but invite
everyone to come on board. We think most people would agree that it makes 
sense
for the convergence to serve Canada as well as the US and for the convergence
to rotate around the US/Canada. 
 
Are there things that we can accomplish on a national scale?
Absolutely! We have been meeting regionally long enough to have created some
workable patterns that could be used on a broader scale. We can do some
strategic coordination, exchange experience and share resources. This is a
chance to meet and network with pc folks from other regions. We can talk about
certification, mentoring, networking, design, consulting, guilds, research,
publishing and much more.  We can
explore how to increase the impact of our profession on a national level about
sustainability, healing the environment, social and economic justice. How can
permaculture be more effective in serving our communities and the Earth!
 
We intend to create channels by which people who can't, or
don't want to, travel to participate and we respect that viewpoint as well. We
will use on line conference tools and other technology to ensure that anyone
who wants to, will have a voice and can participate. 
 
Our starting point is to assemble a group of respected
permaculturists from around the US and Canada to act in an advisory capacity
and to spread the word to their networks.
So far, 14 people have agreed to be on the advisory council:
Peter Bane,Permaculture Activist, Bloomington, Indiana.
Brandy Gallagher,
OUR Ecovillage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Jude Hobbs, Cascadia Permaculture Institute, Oregon.
Penny Livingston,Regenerative Design Institute, California.
Loren Luyendyk,Global Permaculture Design Group, Santa Barbara,
California. 
Chuck Marsh,Useful
Plants Nursery, Southeast Permaculture Convergence, Earthaven Ecovillage, 
North
Carolina.
Patricia Michael,Patricia Michael Design, Austin, Texas
Jerome Osentowski,Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Colorado.
Michael Pilarski,Friends of the Trees Society, Northwest Permaculture 
Convergence, Inland
Northwest Permaculture Guild, Montana. 
Scott Pittman,Permaculture Institute USA, New Mexico.
Wes Roe & Margie Bushman,Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, Southern 
California
Wayne Weiseman,Permaculture Project LLC, Carbondale, Illinois
Paula Westmoreland,Ecological Gardens, Permaculture Research Institute Cold
Climate.  Twin Cities, Minnesota.
Of course there will be many more
with representation from all the regions.  We are just getting started. Our 
intent is that the advisory
committee is largely composed of elders in the movement. 
 
Next step would be to form a steering committee of competent
people who are willing to do the work, including tech-savvy people who can 
make
the event accessible to all the people who can’t make it in person. Next is to
select a venue and assemble a regional team to do the local groundwork. For
decision-making we will look at the Acorn model that Jon Young talks about in
his 8 Shields work, consult Starhawk’s Empowerment Five-Fold-Path and other
participatory methods. We would suggest that the convergence is sponsored by 
as
many pc organizations as possible, rather than just one. There will need to be
a strong hosting group in whatever region hosts the first convergence. Some
time back it was proposed that different regional convergences take turns
hosting the national convergence. 
 
The timing and venue are unknown since the process is just
getting underway.  Most people on
the above list think we should aim for 2014, partly due to lead time and 
partly
to not conflict with the International Convergence in Cuba in 2013. Pilarski
favors a grass-roots venue which is already implementing permaculture, rather
than paying for a standard conference hotel. As an example, I am currently
dialoguing with the Ecovillage Center (Albert Bates, et al) at The Farm in
Summertown, Tennessee which has hosted many permaculture workshops, Gaia
University events and the 2009 Bioregional Congress. 
 
Who is interested in helping get this off the ground?  Let us know.  
Feedback? Venue suggestions?  Who has ideas on setting up systems of 
interactive fora to
enable a lot of people to have input? The goal is a broad-based group of
hundreds of permaculturists working together to make this an energetic and
synergistic event.
 
Care of Earth, Care of people, Fair share,

 
Michael Pilarski 
friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com  406-741-5809 Rocky Mountain time zone. 
 
Koreen Brennan
cory8570@yahoo.com
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> But returning to Tibet, sure Larry, news from Tibet will get out via the
> Tibetan Diaspora, but is it going to affect public opinion or government
> decisions? A few years ago, the Dalai Lama was still welcomed by numerous
> Western leaders and news about the repression in Tibet would make the
> headlines. Today, no leader would dare meet with the Dalai Lama and news
> from Tibet has almost completely disappeared from the news. A single
> self-immolation in Tunisia has sparked the Arab spring, toppling one
> tyrant after the other. After more than 100 self-immolations in Tibet it
> hardly makes the news any longer. How could it? European leaders have to
> go begging for money to Beijing to help paying Europe’s debts and the US
> too needs the Chinese to pay its increasing debt.
>
> But don’t get me wrong, I will always be in favor of non-violent action,
> no matter what the current trend. It is the only right way. However, we
> can’t necessarily expect that it will immediate improve the World.
>
> Dieter

Two short remarks on this topic in general but they are related :

1) I saw a documentary about the struggle for independence in India about a
year ago and of course lost all the links to it since. It was made in India
so if you want more info that is where to go look for it. In it the thesis
was put forward that Gandhi was partly a Western propaganda weapon and that
other Indians who were not so non violent were in fact more important to get
the British out. And I of course can not remember the names of these highly
venerated Indians. Venerated in India that is, silenced to death in the
West.

2) If we look around the world it is obvious that millions of people have
been exterminated in the last decade alone by certain Western powers. And
this is daily ongoing. There was only one reason to bomb Iraq and
Afghanistan and Libya and now Syria back to the stone age and that is oil.
And the MSM and TPTB sell this to the unsuspecting Western public as a
battle against terrorism while they in fact are the only terrorists. Iran is
likely to be next and in the mean time in Israel Palestinians are ethnically
cleansed away wholesale, their few remaining properties sprayed with dung
slurry by the Israeli army on a regular basis.

I have long ago come to the conclusion that almost all of us are bombarded
with propaganda of all sorts and that most of us fall in that trap with our
eyes open. Don't take me wrong, I am dead against what the Chinese are doing
in Tibet (and have signed quite a few petitions against it on line) but, the
fact that this is now going viral over the net might just possibly have
something to do with the fact that certain Western nations are gearing up
for a war with China and are building military installations all around the
China Sea at break neck speed. And this has nothing to do with liberating
Tibet.
The question now is whether it would not make more sense to get informed to
what is really happening and do something about it in our own countries?
And if not then I would like to get back to permaculture.

John