Occupy your Money 
If you really want to see more shared economic and financial ownership, join a credit union. Occupy your money. Credit unions share profits and decision-making with members. I am a proud Atlantic Credit Union Member with one of their credit cards. Also have an excellent credit card from Desjardins (Quebec)- best travel credit card in Canada.

Arusha Savings Group Summit 


Sure, I'll draw for you....

Savings Group Summit was a wonderful meeting- world cafe, debates, under the mango tree storytelling. I think the biggest divide or tension in our community is the question of scale. Broaden vs. deepen access for groups? Are these at odds or mutually reinforcing?

Prelude 
Before it breaks
even before it
begins with the
ache of sky, its
low belly drum roll. Powder
blue holding its own
against barrelling grey.
Could be a rumble, baby.
Air muck-thick, bloated. The
weight of stout in champagne

sink in the spray
whiff of dirt.

Who knows but I trust
this heft.

Spit and
silence rock the
tender trees,
could take this
anywhere dripping green.
Almost water but well
before the floods
on the dewy
lip of riot.




Paddling in Keji 


Arts in Transformative Learning 
Peter Taylor (IDRC formerly IDS, University of Sussex) and I just finished an article on the transformative potential of arts in learning and social change. It draws on examples of poetry, creative writing and experiences of innovative practice shared by adult educators through an e-forum from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The paper provides a conceptual frame to explore tensions in adult learning between the mytho-poetic and the critical-rational, and between the individual and the collective. It will be published in the Journal of Adult and Contiuing Education in October.Contact me if you'd like a copy.



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