23-10-2009, 09:23 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Good one, Magda, and it serves notice that, as a somewhat international forum, we often come from radically-differing media/governmental/cultural places with local personalities, scandals, politics, and history.
Given the global trend toward, well, globalism, I suggest, therefore (not too-terribly-tongue-in-cheek) a conference someplace for three or four days, all expenses paid (ha!), perhaps in Bermuda, or Paris, or Milan, or Toronto, or Montreal, or maybe on a cruise ship near Cruz Bay or some place dull and far more realistic. (The Black Bear Inn, a few miles north of the runway at the Bangor International Airport near the University of Maine and the world-class Acadia National Park, comes to mind. Perhaps we could get Stephen King to drop by.)
Such an event could include short dinner time skits on trans-cultural awareness and humor, short briefings on the items mentioned in the first paragraph, breakout sessions on selected thread topics (I see at least seven major groupings), and key note speeches by Peter Dale Scott, Ola Tunander, Alfred McCoy, David Ray Griffith and others. [There is enough material here at DPF not to even mention Dallas or interfere with its related events.]
If we planned it right, we could sell tickets and squeeze the heck out of DVD sales and international online conference/blogging/MP3 sales, and have a 'proceedings' or conference syllabus published by someone. It could be DPF's third anniversary gala.
Pardon the interruption... We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread on British parliamentary interactions.
Fertile ideas Ed. Thanks. I'll just note that, while I'm most certainly not speaking for DPF as I'm merely one voice of many, we have been careful to steer clear of profiting from our efforts. Note, for example, that DPF is untainted by advertising.
And just my own opinion if we were ever to have a conference, and if it were in the US, some mention of Dallas would be essential. All roads lead to Dealey Plaza. It's the rosetta stone.