Instead, according to the stated goals for the "Building A New World" Conference by lead organizer, Garda Ghista, this is a different type of conference - one that promises to deliver room and space for bright minds and accomplished activists to "think outside the box" and brainstorm solutions for desperately needed political, social, humanitarian, and economic change.
Curious to discover whether this month's Virginia event would be merely yet one more lame "progressive" conference... or, one that could actually initiate real change, I contacted Garda Ghista, the President of the Conference sponsoring organization, World Prout Assembly, for more information. Below are excerpts from our communications, with contact details for more information and registration following our interview.
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I am wondering if you can share why progressive activists, angry about what is going down in DC, would want to dip into their hard-earned savings to attend the "Building A New World" Conference?
Garda: "The major sessions at the conference cover what I feel are the most critical issues facing us today - issues that all of us should be equally concerned about. It doesn't make sense to me to be concerned about one area of injustice and not about all others. In the final analysis, all of us are brothers and sisters, we are all one human family, so what affects one should affect all. To have this level of caring for one another would reflect a genuinely civilized nation."
What makes this any different than all the rest of the so-called "progressive" conferences?
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