Sept. 1, 2024
The Forum’s e-blasts have been suspended until further notice while Facilitator Steve Johnston focuses on 12 hours of rest daily and riding the unpredictable seas of chemotherapy.
The e-blast containing names of speakers for Tuesday, usually sent Sundays, will be suspended. Find that information on the Forum’s website here.
The e-blast sent after Tuesday’s meeting has, since January 2022, summarized the meeting, included a link to a video of the proceedings, and included updates to the Forum’s annoucements file, and it too will be suspended. Meeting summaries will be found in this list as they become available. The most recent lists of announcements will always be found here. Regular consumers of this material will immediately notice the big change: The publication of both meeting info and announcements has regularly occurred on Tuesday night. It will be nice when the Forum can return to that schedule.
Johnston will continue to cut back on nonessentials that have gone into Forum meetings. If over the next weeks you miss something and would like to bring it back, please volunteer with Jackie Edwards Walton, Laura McClettie, of Ché Abdullah, who has already begun doing camera work for Forum livestreams.
And speaking of livestreams: No word yet on whether the City has bypassed the AT&T work stoppage now entering its third week. No sign of a break Sept. 1 in the negotiations. The intermittent wi-fi coverage at Belmont Center on Aug. 27 made last week’s livestream impossible. The process of constructing video out of string and paperclips here will likely be tried again this week.