In 1984, Barbara Marx Hubbard decided to launch an idea campaign for the vice presidency of the United States at the suggestion of Buckminster Fuller. Her campaign was based on the idea of creating an Office for the Future to SCAN FOR, MAP, CONNECT AND COMMUNICATE WHAT IS WORKING IN THE WORLD.
Aiming at this goal, everywhere Barbara went Positive Future Centers formed. They wanted to create a center for “it.” She found that “it” was a center in each person sharing and reaching out to develop a greater community based on the principles of the Campaign. Each center began to self organize in what became called “The Rings of Empowerment,” and the ninety Positive Future Centers all focused on the one goal of securing the commitment of 200 delegates to vote for Barbara. When she went to the convention, she had no media and no passes to the floor. The wife of the governor of Colorado let Barbara in with her small team. She made 30-second speeches, saying, “Vote for me for vice president so I can declare from the great platform of the Democratic Party that our purpose is to identify, connect and support what is working in the world. And I will then give my votes to Geraldine Ferraro.”
So over 200 delegates signed up to give Barbara the power to make the speech at the Convention. When the guard took her to the great platform he whispered in her ear, “Now honey, they won’t pay any attention to you. They never do. You are saying this for the universe.” And she did.
