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 Convened by **Richard Greeman**
-In 2017 Naomi Klein reminded us that “No is not enough.” To save the planet from impending catastrophe, people need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. In other words, a credible picture of a possible Utopia and plausible account of how to get there from here. But is "Another World" REALLY possible?
+//For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]//
-To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even once chance in a hundred for a better world -- we ought to be able at least to //imagine// it. So we place ourselves in the position of future historians living in the year 2117 in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet.  Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (on the bi-centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN - today’s capitalist death-spiral - to NOW - a sustainable, egalitarian global society free of war, oppression and exploitation.
+In 2017 Naomi Klein reminded us that “No is not enough.” To save the planet from impending catastrophe, people need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. In other words, a credible picture of a possible Utopia and a plausible account of how to get there from here. But is "Another World" REALLY possible?
-Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting  since September 24, 2017. We gather in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across a dozen time zones – from L.A. California to Moscow, Russia - including participants in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, Paris and Rabat, Morocco.
+To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even one chance in a hundred for a better world — we ought to be able at least to //imagine// it. So we place ourselves in the position of future historians living in the year 2117, in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet.  Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (on the bi-centenary of the then-unforeseen 1917 Russian Revolution) and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN — today’s capitalist death-spiral — to NOW: a sustainable, egalitarian global society, free of war, oppression and exploitation.
+Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present (May 2018) we are holding twice-monthly online seminars with participants across a dozen time zones – from California to Moscow — including participants in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Vermont, Paris, and Morocco.
-**Our process** : examine the historical evidence and collectively piece together a plausible picture of our possible better world and the roads that led to it. One rule: no gods, no extra-terrestials.
+**Our process**: Examine the historical evidence and collectively piece together a plausible picture of our possible better world and the roads that led to it. Our only rule: no gods, no extra-terrestials.
-**Our goal**: create a popular utopian fiction, working title //THEN AND NOW// in the tradition of Bellamy's //Looking Backward// (1888) and Morris' //News from Nowhere//. The popularity of these utopias brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. We hope that //THEN AND NOW// also go viral, inspire it readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
+**Our goal**: Create a popular utopian fiction (working title //THEN AND NOW//), in the tradition of Bellamy's //Looking Backward// (1888) and Morris's //News from Nowhere// (1890). The popularity of these utopias brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. We hope that //THEN AND NOW// will also go viral, inspire its readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 Join us! All power to the imagination!

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