A People's Global Meeting

The plan is time limited virtual/physical and distributed global/local meeting(s), leading to larger local festival/meetings, leading to regional consensus, and all that has to be sifted through via some IT system to be designed, so as to give international resolutions that all participants agree to. It will present various communications and technical problems in attempting to function as a tool to enable physical meetings to have regional participation across a wide geographical area, so perhaps if it takes place, it shouldn't be the last of it's kind.

First there is a 6 month debate and planning stage, so that the festival that concludes various local regional meetings, can then go through each proposal submitted and agree (or not) on it. This stage will use just about every form of communication available, and will seek innovative ways of enabling that participation across traditional or geographical boundaries

		one aspect is video
			- creation of proposal illustration videos, flyers etc for approved or part approved proposals,
			- video channels of live debates and assemblies. Can voice via live feedback to live stream laptop. It could run from a live stream chat channel and detect more than 10 of a certain symbol

		traditional media:
			- collaboratively edited flyers on various proposals and on meeting times.
			- newspaper showing various proposals and developments.
			- streaming and local fm or tv channels - livestreams of various assemblies and meetings, and of related content

		cheap participation:
			- meet in people's homes, or in streets. community kitchens and donations from non participants - who can still bring proposals via those participating.
			- local meetings feed back written or oral, video statements - this requires infrastructure preparation, until it becomes electronic - and then it can be internationally available.
			- regional group meeting goes through and types up or translates, sends on info.
			- internationally available local resolutions via a web site or internet service. phone based forum service for reading proposals from a forum and speaking them automatically or via a  volunteer. folksonomy based tagging and open data for community visualisation.


		traditional web:
			- document creation - collaborative wikis feeding to downloadable documents. Approval again could be shown of a document as it's created.
			- forums could be used to show initial proposals and for some to be voted up or down. onus is on whoever makes the proposal to edit this, publish it in the wiki and keep it up to date.
			- proposals are then made public, and tagged, and translated, and leaflets created in various languages for distribution across protest movements.
			- discussion groups can meet physically in local areas and agree or disagree on them. together, and with support from larger organizations? the discussion groups prepare a larger meeting.
			- meetings run via direct democracy general assembly format used at protest camps across europe, the americas, the middle east and now more and more of the world - with much freedom on details, but various goals(mostly known at meetings) - unity, respect and openness etc. minutes are published and items fed back via tags to other meetings on similar topics.
                        - referendums - venues taken to decide issues. local media used to distribute and send decisions around, or organize training around complex issues to enable understanding.
			- allow different communities to communicate via mapping and tagging of approval of issues - simple visualisation website.
			- intentionally keep time short: 6 months at most?


	- then the festivals begin: video linked festivals in major centers:

				- cultural events, music, film, art etc.
				- a large live stream of a GA every night debating issues, openly accessible list of debates.
				from home, people can contribute approval / disapproval via simple interfaces - a connection from a serial input to a microchip and an LED - to light up a big light when people approve... very simple. For visual input at assemblies. also chat interfaces. moderators, moderator rooms, voting interface for mods? etc etc.
				from other festivals, video link ups at certain hours. translated content, live collaborative subtitling
				festival is over in a week. celebration?

At this point we would have our agreements and disagreements of various proposals. We - all the participants who agree on an action, now carry out those actions. I suggest the following:

			* core proposals vs local (eg: I respect human life and am united with everyone VS we need to clean this street etc..): core proposals don't have to be actions people accept doing - they could just be statements of unity or broad purposes
			* local proposals to do with organizing, not making demands or statements: these are statements of purpose :"I will join in and do..."
			* a focus has to be given to running basic services (this is of critical and grave importance for many people)
			* becoming better able to stand up to life in general in this new century,
			separating from the corrupt structures that have supported us until now.

The basis of this is not collaboration or confrontation with governments. Unity is better, and for many reasons this is a critical time for it. The focus of this global meetings is to create proposals for things to do regardless of what any even slightly crony capitalist state wants to do, because without the support of the people all these old systems will just fall apart.