Building the Sustainable Society -
Workshop
held on 16th September 2006
Report by Linda Kaucher
3. How to Overcome the Challenges
Network people
Network with alternative activists
Connect up the alternatives
Activists working across different areas to understand
different angles
Building support networks
Network between groups who have done change work, have
experience in different places, bringing resources to
bear
Common ownership of ideas, not personal ownership
Network across the religious divide
Networking new knowledge
Build up ideas around issued ordinary people know (Trojan
horse)
Use electronic media e.g. internet, networks and forums
to stimulate ideas for change Invite public to debate
popular issues -> increase public knowledge
Identify actual consequences and then alternatives e.g.
home generation of electricity
Publicise effects of neoliberalism
Publicise the methods of neoliberalism
Audit effects of neo-liberal agenda
Start a program of education for sustainability for adults
and children
Challenge old ideas
Construct a cohesive alternative ideology
Construct a critique of the ‘old left’
Challenge the neoliberal agenda
Be flexible
Use informal structures because formalised structures
can be easily deconstructed by other forces
Be aware
Guerrilla tactics we are dealing with a difficult ‘beast’
Do not be politically naïve they are bastards
Tight networks
Be information security conscious
Put it into action
Develop co-operative projects
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