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A little research for starters:
 
 
LaTimes: The Port Huron Statement: A manifesto reconsidered
 
NationOfChange: The Port Huron Statement - 50 Years on
 
TruthOut: The Port Huron Statement Today
 
InTheseTimes: The Port Huron Statement: Still Radical at 50
 
Discovering the Networks: mission is to expose the radical left and its Islamic ties...
 
CommonDreams: Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street  
 
Books:
 
 
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== Dear conference participants ==
 
I want to let you all know that planning for the University of Michigan Port
Huron conference has proceeded very well--and to reaffirm that all of you
are on the program for the event, October 31-November 2, 2012.  The program
is very nearly complete (awaiting confirmation from only two further
invitees).  We have all the needed funding in hand.  I can assure you it
will be a marvelous event, and let me (speaking for all the planning
committee) thank you for joining in.
 
The working title ("The Port Huron Statement and the Making of the New Left,
1958-1965:  A Fifty-Year Commemoration") has been changed to
 
A New Insurgency:  The Port Huron Statement in Its Time and Ours
 
I will send you the full program within the next few weeks, and I will ask
you for some basic information such as a presentation title and a short vita
or biographical sketch (so we will know how to introduce you).  A website
will go online by mid-June, and a system for making travel arrangements will
be set up not long after that.
 
I have been out of touch with a number of you for some time, as basic
planning proceeded, and I apologize for that.  I hope to be in more regular
contact in the coming five months as all arrangements for the conference
come into shape.
 
Gratefully,
Howard
 
Howard Brick
Louis Evans Professor of History
 
Notes from Ann Arbor Group Meeting May 15, 2012:
PORT HURON STATEMENT + 50 -- ANN ARBOR GROUP
May 15, 2012 -- at Odile’s and Alan’s house.
 
PRESENT:  Odile Hugunot Haber,  Alan Haber, Eric Ward, David Olson, Mark Dilley, Robert Vodicka, Greg Pratt
 
Question: how can we use wiki’s for this project?
 
Mark Dilley: Wiki’s are collaborative web spaces for content creation through user self-organization.
 
Question: Should we use passwords?
 
MD: My focus has been on open user interfaces (no passwords).
 
Eric Ward:  How do we moderate debate over content?
 
MD: They have a “talk” page associated with each open page.
 
EW: Are there “site maps” to help navigate the pages?
 
MD: No, but there are “all pages” links that show all the pages [duh -ed.] that link to it.
 
David Olson: International Organization for Participatory Society could be a starting point for the wiki
 
Greg Pratt: It’s important to be conscious of how we are generating “seed” material for the wiki/ conversation.
 
MD: People will just start posting statements, poems, art, film etc.
Two years ago I help set up a wiki with activists at the Detroit US Social Forum. That site and also the one from 2007 in atlanta are “archived” and closed off from content creation. They are like people’s content “museums.”
 
[Mark asked Ward Cunningham (founder of wiki concept) a question about how to build shared language in using common referneces -- Mark please finish this, I couldn’t keep up ;)]
 
MD: Use “leave the room” strategy to help with multiple user content collaboration.
 
Question:  So how do we set it up?
 
All:  We post the reflection and projection of Port Huron Statement (the two pager Alan has been handing out when talking with people about this idea and inviting them to get involved). [Which, needs to be one page ;) -- ed.]
 
All: We need a succinct invitation to participation and collaboration.
 
Alan: What are the most difficult questions we face today?
 
Odile:  What is the best way out of this economy?
 
Alan:  Back in the sixties we used an inside/outside strategy with the democratic party. Is that applicable to anything today?
 
Greg: Good for lists.
 
Alan: Alright so there is a meeting in one-month for the Port huron + 50. It would be good to brainstorm and get to a point where we could have ***three topic*** areas of discussion for break out groups etc. over the course of the jubilee conference.
 
[Patriarchy or Partnership? Alan - Can you type in your explanation of this?]
 
How do we see Education moving forward?
Students used to be agents for change. What is the status on the campuses in this area today?
 
Mark: Manifesto for Now? This message is for??
 
[Discussion about whether “Manifesto” is good language to use to describe the project]
 
Mark: “Open Space Meetings” is a suggestion for future collaboration in real time with people abroad.
 
Greg: One theme should be that constitutions are living documents, not instruments of dogmatic totalitarianism.
 
Alan: What would you want to be included in this?
 
Greg: Exactly.
 
David Olson: Ok so the meeting is in June [something about “crowd source” fishing? David - please finish the thought here, I lost this one too!]
 
What questions, concerns, issues are at the top of your list?
 
Mark: “Crowd sourced” ~ “Community Curated”
 
Greg: We need to develop inclusive online discussion guidelines.
 
Mark: I suggest the “kindergarten” rule. Do unto others etc.
 
Alan: We create those guidelines with the same process that we are creating content for the  “Many Fisto!” People will make proposals and come to common ground.
 
David: Mark, you could find some basic format rules for that, right?
 
Mark: Yeah, sure.
 
Greg: I’d like to echo what Alan was saying there and that is we create the guidelines the same way we create the content. We have faith that people can negotiate and come to common ground.
 
Mark: We’ll Link to a blank page for now [bit.ly/ManifestoForNow] so we can send it to Ann Arbor Observer for article to be written about the June 14-17 Jubilee Port Huron + 50.
 
Alan: Kickoff will be at Hathaway’s Hideaway on Thursday June 14 at  ?? time??
[OY: Alan had approached some of us about events happening in Ypsi. Just so we're all on the same page, we're not hearing any more about this, so are assuming it's happening in AA.]
 
Other announcements?
 
David??: June 30 in Philadelphia is the Occupy Wall Street Huge General assembly. How does this dovetail with that project?
[OY: last we heard, many local Occupies weren't on board with this. What's the latest, and what is the aim of the event? Curious to know more info.]
 
Mark: We can also use Meetings.com/PortHuronStatement for facilitating content discussions in real time.
 
Also re: “Managing the wiki” the best way I’ve accomplished this is by getting out of the way. (“leave the room” technique of prompting users to self-organize).
 
Tasks
 
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  • Language for invitation to participate in the project
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  • Schedule for Conference - 3 guiding topics?
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  • We need a “back-end” web IT person to help us manage the website tech stuff.
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  • What else?
  • [Eric Ward: Also it was mentioned that we needed a "hosting company"; is anyone familiar with how we get one of those?  
  • Some questions:
  • Are there websites of companies that do this?
  • Do we know: 1) features needed; 2) costs; 3) sign-up particulars, like: do you need to be a business; do we pay on a monthly basis; is there a minimum "contract" etc.  
  • Also, is there a start-up lead-time; we had said last week that we had a two-week window to get set up before the Observer was published.