Women's Equity Think Tank WETTank
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Jun 12, 2011 11:42 PM
Join WETTank Women's Equity Think Tank
Are you interested in making a feminist difference?
Do you feel perturbed, and sometimes angry, that there are so few political and policy debates on the issues you think are important?
Does it annoy you that politics have let go the fair go, and there are too few who devise, collate and advocate alternative politics and policy action to create feminist futures?
If so, can you contribute some skills, interests and time to changing political priorities and putting social well being high on the political agenda?
Do you feel perturbed, and sometimes angry, that there are so few political and policy debates on the issues you think are important?
Does it annoy you that politics have let go the fair go, and there are too few who devise, collate and advocate alternative politics and policy action to create feminist futures?
If so, can you contribute some skills, interests and time to changing political priorities and putting social well being high on the political agenda?
If you are interested, please sign up here or contact us to be part of a new ideas and policy development network sponsored by the Women’s Equity Think Tank (WETTANK). This network is the re-created update of the Women’s Economic Think Tank, a group set up in the eighties to reinterpret economics with a feminist slant.
It is now time to make equity our core principle, rather than trying to adapt inherently unfair market economics to feminist goals of gender fairness. It is time to develop new policy approaches for what is still to be done and what are the new social needs.
Why do we need a new network?
Fewer feminist or other progressive organisations are developing needed serious policy alternatives to what is on offer. They respond and seek adjustments to the status quo but lack the time and skills for exploring new ideas to shift priorities and paradigms. The Network will complement these existing activities and groups by offering feminist specific social policy options by linking those with the interests, expertise & skills to make a difference. We will work on new 21st century social policy agendas to resource other groups and expand their capacity for new ideas and making new agendas.
We need to put up alternatives and challenge the status quo in order to encourage groups and individuals to optimistically push for big changes, not small change. We will do this by making use of new technologies to connect working groups as well as F2F meetings, so we can spread our net widely and make effective use of time and resources.
WETTANK will operate as a think tank network to identify, connect and resource and activate interested feminists who want to make a political difference. Join us if you are prepared to share skills, knowledge, energy and enthusiasms. We need both those with experience and others wanting to learn how to make changes.
This is not a new organisation but a new way of working to make changes
Why do we need to do this?
Unless feminists revise and revive our future visions, the basic idea of women’s liberation change is finished. It has stalled along with other optimistic socially based change movements which were damaged by the now failing neo-liberal revolution and its neo conservative paternalistic social policies. Progress is no longer a given, so we need to make it possible for people to believe good change is possible by devising feminist options that can influence the future.