Below, are questions and ideas following the November 15, 2024 showing of the film Outgrow the System presented by XRPDX.
Q: Create a way for those attending to get involved—an “Outgrow PDX” website
Q: Address the topic of accessing COMMUNITY SOLAR as a way for households that cannot access benefits of renewable solar via panels on the buildings where they live
Q: I dream of more popular education opportunities by and for our communities. If your organization had the opportunity to offer popular education or skill shares, or receive those offerings, what do you imagine being interested in?
Q: How can we continue to build trustful relationships more effectively-for the purpose of activating transformative processes on a systemic level?
Q: Consider 1 or more general strike.
Q: In the recent devastating election, one of the main issues for Americans was “the economy”. For many of us in this room, ideas on how to improve the economy are clear, but we can’t do this fight alone. How can we message to and bring in people from the mainstream?
Q: What could a participatory democracy economy look like in Portland?
Q: Is there a list of not-for-profit companies?
Q: How do we increase influence on the common person? How to compete with social media/AI?
Q: What measures can be taken to reduce corruption?
Q: What about Biodiverse farming? Is this being invested in or is it a goal?
Q: How can we include poor white people in the narrative?
Q: What are some of the root causes of collective healing that we need to turn towards as we navigate systemic change?
Q: How about shifting PDX metro’s housing market to a social benefit economic model?
Q: I suggest the source: The Dawn of Everything. It’s replete with examples of participatory economies.
Q: How do we make the change on an individual, community, national, and global level now?
Q: There are so many systems (mentioned in the film), has there been tests of which is best?
Q: I have ideas about embodying emergent organizing strategies towards change…..
Q: Can the economies presented in the film be consolidated? Can they coexist towards a defeat of capitalism?
Q: The term “not-for-profit company” is tricky in the US context with our 501c3 sector and everything that entails. For people interested in starting a social enterprise or cooperative to provide goods and/or services to meet community needs in a way that also supports worker/owner/founder needs, they can get hung up on entity type, funding, taxes, and more. Interested in how to overcome these barriers?
Q: What do you think about the role of art, music, creativity, in the economy?
Q: What are some ways you would spend the time you currently spend working for pay if you only had to do 10-20 hours per week?
Q: Your thoughts on funding these great initiatives?
Q: Out of all the systems proposed, is there one that is more comprehensive than the other?
Q: How widespread are these concepts?
Q: What Portland City ordinances and policies do you want us to create/demand/support? (pie chart budget for each expense where subtract payment current investments (ie cops).
Q: Require housing filled-peopled; and [require] all land, buildings, parking lots produce plants for fiber, fuel, food, cooling climate care/ air cleaning.
Q: What is the most exciting part of working with the new government leaders in Washington DC?
Q: It would be great to have an event with all the orgs that are doing stuff in this realm!
Q: The film really under-addressed questions of what it will look like to amass enough power to wrest power from those designing and profiting from the current system. What vision do you like for amassing enough power for realistically overthrowing the way things are done?
Q: Are you familiar with public banks and alternative currencies such as green bucks (historically value human labor) vs. egregious currencies such as cryptocurrencies created by increased CO2 emissions?
Q: ideas about embodying emergent organizing strategies towards change…..
Q: How do we change land used to grow food with no nutritional value (ie. For corn syrup or potato chips)?