adres: 18th Street Arts Center, 1653 18th St, Studio 5, Santa Monica, CA 90404 ---- It’s about time we have our own version of Gezi Park style forum. Hope you can join us on June 29, Saturday, 1-2pm @ 18th Street Center in Santa Monica, CA for a local discussion assembly. It would be lovely to keep the dialogue going with additional forums... The agenda of the forum would be to explore our options for meaningful engagement from Los Angeles for a tangible impact on the situation in Turkey. Let’s discuss: -What should be our goal? -What would be the most effective strategy to achieve that goal? -What infrastructure do we need, how can we organize toward that? -What are the existing resources and infrastructures in Los Angeles and the United States who share our mission? How can we work with them to build an effective lobby? The spirit of this forum is to strengthen solidarity within our local community so that we can consolidate our efforts for maximum impact. After all, Turkey ended up in the current situation due to chronic lack of strong political opposition. There are masses who vocally disagree with the current government but no political infrastructure to represent them because of a mindset that focuses on the differences versus the common denominator, so far the opposition parties have been narrowly focused on getting it their way versus getting there. Let’s break that cycle. Let’s initiate a platform to collectively assess the situation and develop strategies to act in unison for concrete results. Let’s initiate a forum and take it from there…
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:27:41 +0000