What?
These are open meetups for anyone interested in a reform of the monetary system and surrounding culture for social good. In short, our aim is to change the system to one that benefits the many, rather than the few. We get together in pubs and talk about how to do this. Anyone is welcome, although we do have a left-leaning slant and we’re more interested in progress than theoretical debate.
How?
After the last couple of meetups with a theoretical focus, we’re moving towards practical matters.
What we don’t want to do:
- Traditional activism, leafletting, protesting
- Take part in the regular political system
- Talk all day and put out flat, bland press releases
What we do want to do:
- Offer information for people to discover and spread themselves using social media and word of mouth.
- Using tools like Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Wiki, Eventbrite &c
- No long reports; bite-sized bits of info that can be easily propogated
- Still cater for different audiences and levels of understanding
- Perhaps appeal to sense of belonging – spread movement by people encouraging their friends to “be part of it”
- Kick off some kind of practical effort to do something good and also demonstrate a non-capitalist way of people working together successfully, without any overt political agenda.
- Involve creativity and the arts
- Try and meet basic needs for people right now
- Take an iterative approach to finding what works
One prominent idea so far is to put together a series of short videos (that can be bundled into a full film), put them on the web with accompanying text and use them to educate people. It’s become clear that education of the masses is a high priority for us and a something that is missed by protestors &c.
We’re also toying with ideas for some kind of cooperative project that we can get going as an economic proof-of-concept. Ideas welcome.
It’d be great if we could assign some practical actions at the end of this one.
Where?
The Adelphi in Leeds – they have beer and tables and all that. We’ll meet in the first left room near the door for a start, then find somewhere with space. Tweet, email or holler if you can’t find us.
When?
Monday the 14th of November at 8pm.
Great!
To give an idea of numbers, please RSVP to dan at danladds.com or @danladds on twitter. You can still turn up if you don’t, but it’d be cool to have a idea on numbers.
It’s completely free, just buy a beer or something.
You can tweet in relation to this and future events using the hashtag #Loxley
Black hats optional, but advised.