Edinburgh represents Scotland in first grassroots ‘Global Teach-In’ focused on building a sustainable economy
How can local communities in Edinburgh respond to an economic crisis that is truly global? How can local groups learn from potentially useful developments taking place half way around the world?
These are the questions we hope to answer by participating in a ground-breaking ‘Global Teach-In’
We will use video link-ups and live feeds to simultaneously connect local communities in 7 nations and across 4 continents.
On April 25, Edinburgh hosts Global Teach-In Scotland at the Augustine Unitarian Church, Edinburgh. A live audience of activists and engaged citizens will gather to respond and discuss a series of live talks and international webcasts that will be beamed from New York, Sweden, and 13 other cities around the world. The Edinburgh group will also be speaking live to a global audience expected to number in the thousands.
At the Edinburgh event, commentator and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch will report on land reform in Scotland, Mike Small, founder of the Fife Diet, will discuss the local food movement, journalist Peter Geoghegan will talk about creative alternatives to the youth unemployment crisis, and final year Ph.D. student, Jamie Hamilton, will discuss the role of groups like Occupy in building a sustainable economy.
Orientation begins at 4.30pm and there is a global kick-off event at 5pm British Summer Time. Local speakers will feature from 6-8pm and the event ends at 9pm. The audience will respond to segments of webcasts and live speakers by posing questions provoked by the case studies and reflecting on ways in which international examples inspire local action. The event is free with donations welcome to cover costs.
April 25th is the first day of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco where cities around the world will address concrete solutions to the economic, environmental and energy crises.
This event will highlight the alternative policies needed globally, nationally and locally to constitute a concrete plan of action. Speakers will address the need for not only new tax and budgetary policies, but also the necessity to build new economic institutions from the ground up. These include: alternative banks, utilities, cooperatives and other new economic forms to promote needed economic and ecological changes.
The world’s leading thinkers and activists will be involved in this event, including: Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org (US); Gar Alperovitz, founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative (US); Colin Hines, Convenor of the Green New Deal (UK); Bruce Nixon, environmental author and activist (UK); Ellen Hodgson Brown, Chairman and President, Public Banking Institute (US); Alice Slater, noted peace and anti-nuclear activist (US); Robert Pollin, a leading economist on green economic transformations (US); Pamela Brown, a leader of the movement against student debt (US); Joel Rogers, a leading green activist (US); Oscar Kejllberg, Former President of Sweden’s leading cooperative bank (Sweden); and Dada Maheshvarananda, a leader of the PROUT movement for economic democracy (Venezuela). Jonathan M. Feldman (Sweden), principal convenor, organized the televised national Green New Deal Conference in Sweden in March 2009 and was a principal organizer of the May 2, 1990 National Town Meeting on the Peace Dividend held in Washington, D.C.
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Contact information: Tricia Muñoz 07973569860 e: mail@paciapr.com
Global Teach-In Scotland http://globalteachinscotland.eventbrite.co.uk/
Promotional video: http://vimeo.com/39371903;
Global Teach-In Webpage: http://www.globalteachin.com/
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