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This page and its associated pages offers the opportunity for conference participants (and others who may have thoughts to offer) to summarize, continue, and further extend the Visioning initiated during the conference.
 
This page and its associated pages offers the opportunity for conference participants (and others who may have thoughts to offer) to summarize, continue, and further extend the Visioning initiated during the conference.
  
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[[George Lakey - Viking Economics]]
 
[[George Lakey - Viking Economics]]
  
 
[[Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising"]]
 
[[Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising"]]

Revision as of 11:39, 4 December 2016

. The Conference Web Page

The titled conference took place December 1 - 4, 2016 at Pendle Hill, the Quaker conference and retreat center.

Now more than ever, progressive people of faith are called to continue the work of building the Beloved Community. We face increased corporate power on a global scale, precarious Wall Street financial meltdowns, widening wealth and income inequality, the criminalization of poverty, the scorching of our planet, resource wars, and other threats to the common good and true democracy.

The well-being of our species and the health of the natural world depend on our participating in the Great Transition away from an extraction/domination economy based on perpetual growth and towards a sustainable political economy focused on ensuring that basic human needs are met.

A Conference Roundup Writing Group

This page and its associated pages offers the opportunity for conference participants (and others who may have thoughts to offer) to summarize, continue, and further extend the Visioning initiated during the conference.

Links

George Lakey - Viking Economics

Mark Engler, co-author of "This Is an Uprising"