Posted by: barbwish
on Jul 25, 2010
I was excited about the possibility of working in groups at the conference; in fact, that was one of my motivations for going there. I loved the idea that it was a people’s conference and I wondered how that might play out, how the promise of consensus would become a reality. I was intrigued by this quote from the official cmpcc website (cmpcc is the acronym in Spanish for the complete name of the People’s World Conference): “The People’s World Conference is truly striving to involve as many people as possible. The core work of the Conference will be done in Working Groups. Each one will start their work via email, building consensus and putting forward proposals, which will be considered and enriched in the meetings in person that will take place during the actual conference in Cochabamba. The idea is to construct in Cochabamba in an inclusive and participative way a grand “Peoples' Accord to save life and Mother Earth.”
