An idea surfaced following Barbara Ehrenreich's talk at last weekend' Green Festival in Washington DC, in line with her wonderful (but under-recogtnized) book DANCING IN THE STREETS, A HISTORY OF COLLECTIVE JOY: What would it be like if communities all over the US - perhaps all over the globe - held their own Inaugural Balls in solidary with Obama's January 20th in DC? - joining together to celebrate - inaugurate - the new era we're ALL committed to make happen? Here in Ithaca just since the weekend a coalition of local groups has joined forces to begin planning an open, free community festival combining Martin Luther King Day with the Inauguration. Dancing in the streets in January is iffy at best in upstate New York but ... The Dalai Lama endorses the need for all of us to find new ways of coming together, recommending that integral to world peace is "more parties..." OPENING NEW SPACES for voices to be heard seems essential for realizing this vision - thank you all for your continuing inspiration.
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