January 2000 "What's New" Archive

Jan 21, 2000

Added a number of articles to the Co-intelligence thoughts on Seattle WTO demonstrations page, including

• Netwar in the Emerald City: WTO protest strategy and tactics by Paul de Armond - A lengthy, detailed account of the events, background dynamics (even in the Seattle police department), and strategies and tactics of all players in the WTO protests, by a pro-democracy investigative reporter. A must-read.
• The Historic Significance of Seattle by Vandana Shiva focuses on the Seattle events as a watershed and particularly delineates the kind of sustainable food system that the WTO undermines.
• The Beginning of a Global Movement by Adriene Sere - A brief, cogent view of the WTO protests from a feminist perspective.
• Protest in Seattle: The Modern Maccabees by Rabbi Michael Lerner, discusses the event from a Jewish Renewal perspective.

Paula Gordon's January 2000 Y2K Comments suggest we should stay alert.

Corrected link to Redefining Progress

An interesting study of interconnectedness on http://www.cope.co.za/Intercon/Inter1.htm.

Resources added to the nonviolence page.

Ways to make a Community Stronger, Wiser, More Resilient and Engaged - an outline for a course offering 26 approaches to making a better community.

Jan 16, 2000

Two classic consensus books -- Avery, Michel, et al. (1981) A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making: Building United Judgment - and Auvine, Brian, et al. (1978) A Manual for Group Facilitators -- can now be ordered online at http://consensusbooks.ic.org.

Added to the Dialogue page: One of David Bohm's classic descriptions of dialogue, plus the books

• Dialogue: Rediscovering the Transforming Power of Conversation by Linda Ellinor and Glenna Gerard (J. Wiley and Sons, 1998).
• The Joy of Conversation by Jaida N'ha Sandra (Utne, 1997). The Utne Reader-sponsored guide to co-creative salons of all types. http://www.utne.com

Added to the Quality of Life Indicators page a link to the organization Redefining Progress

Jan 14, 2000

Minor revisions to The WTO: Inside, Outside, All Around The World by Paul Hawken

Some Strategic Lessons from "The Battle of Seattle" by John De Graaf points out the advantages of trying to get clear demands met before doing nonviolent direct action.

A place to share "Y2K Afterthoughts"

Cynthia Beal's "Change of visible pace"

Initiatives to continue Y2K community work post-Y2K are described in Is there a phoenix rising from these ashes?

Up is not always up by Tom Atlee was posted out of the Holding Tank and linked to Quality of Life Indicators

Jan 10, 2000

Revised the Co-Intelligence homepage to reflect post-rollover re-focus on revitalizing democracy.

Revised the Y2K homepage to update it for post-rollover realities, particularly:

Some current views: As of January 10, 2000, there still aren't any major Y2K disruptions visible yet. A lot of us in the "Y2K movement" are doing some serious thinking about what this means. In particular, I refer you to:

• We Don't Have to Stop Making a Difference by Tom Atlee (my Jan 3, 2000 reflections) and Y2K, Experts and Citizens by Tom Atlee, my Jan 10 notes on whether we "should have known better" (which includes an article by IEEE Y2K Chair, Dale Way). Also Does it matter if it's a "Y2K effect"? - which I wrote at Christmas 1999.
• "Keep Your Shorts On, Folks!" by Cynthia Beal
• Ed Yourdon's Jan 1, 2000 Assessment of Y2K
• A compendium of "First Week" Y2K thoughts by Jan Nickerson, Sephen Balkam, John Atlee, David Floyd, Bob Stilger, Doug Stewart, Betsy Barnum, Rosa Zubizarreta, Scott Hess, Judith Winter, Debbie Sugarman, Ogden Nash and Swami Beyondananda
• We're Not Home Free Yet Worst Y2K Bugs Could Surface Later By Frank Bajak, Associated Press
• The Amazing Grace of Y2K Revisited by Meg Wheatley

Year 2000 Glitch Tracking sites

Randy Schutt's approach to consensus process

Added a number of articles to the Co-intelligence thoughts on Seattle WTO demonstrations page, including

• A multidimensional view of WTO by Vicki Robin - a romping, wildly insightful exploration of everything from "WTO as Mirror" to "WTO as Infotainment."
• The WTO: Inside, Outside, All Around The World by Paul Hawken - one of America's leading alternative economists/businessmen has written a truly compelling classic, in which the protest event overwhelms the institution in a grassroots tsunami of life, earth, and humanity.
• How We Really Shut Down the WTO (process notes) by Starhawk - goes into more detail about the processes, tactics and vision.
• Seattle/WTO from a Union Perspective - "The Kids are All Right" by Jeff Crosby provides a compelling sense of convergence among many forces out to make a better world.
• News from the Front Lines of the Battle of Seattle by The Reverend Sharon Delgado sounds much like chronicles from the campaigns of Gandhi and Martin Luther King

Scores of Well Wishes for Robert Theobald, who died November 27, 1999.