Beckenham Constituency Labour Party:

 

Alan  and  Micheline  were  invited  by  Susan  Harris  to speak  about  their  book  to  the  Beckenham Constituency Labour Party recently – their debut presentation together!

They  spoke  for  a  few  minutes  and  then  asked everyone  to  speak  for  one  minute  each answering  the  question:

 

“What event or experience do you remember in your personal life  which  made  you decide  to  become  an activist for social change?”

 

Despite the ‘strangeness’ of being asked to do this, with our ‘little pig’ timer peeping away after each minute, everyone said something different and powerful.

Many people identified themselves as ‘socialists’ and, in the discussion afterwards, there was an agreement that in the last few years, the word had become ‘dirty’ and hard to admit to, but that it was something they were actually deeply proud about, and they were now more determined to ‘come out’ with confidence.

 

Another comment was that our intervention had helped the group, nearly half of whom were new members, to feel they knew each other a bit – the group felt safer. We were very pleased with how it went and hope it is the first of many.

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If you are interested in the “Healing the Hurts of Capitalism” project and you would like to organise a gathering so that people in your part of the world can:

• find out more about the book

• have the opportunity to share their stories about the impact of capitalism on their lives

• learn about the facilitator training sessions we are going to be running

• meet up with other people who are interested in thinking about alternatives to the current ‘for profit’ economic system

then please contact us as soon as possible so that we can help you to make the necessary plans to enable it to happen.