Creative solutions to these age-old problems

What Gabe Garcia had to say about people KNOWING things and still not ACTING on them resonated with me. What barriers do we need to identify that will fully give us a picture of how to solve this problem? It's like a design problem in engineering: you need to know the specifics of everything, identify several factors that you want the finished solution to accomplish, and then try a few different ways--COMPLETELY different, mind you--that could accomplish this end goal! For instance: PROBLEM--How can we ensure that pregnant farm workers get adequate care and don't overwork themselves? Have doctors dress up as farm workers and work alongside women, making sure that the women know resources available? Have high school/college students trained in some capacity to identify such women perform crude examinations and let trained professionals know? Wheel out enormous feather beds (with shaded canopies!) out onto the fields so that the women can lay down when they're feeling ill? Work out some sort of daily contract so that overseers cannot fire in the middle of the day due to non-working? Organize teams of women who can register for the day under one person, so that the same amount of work is accomplished? Of course, these all have pros and cons but the important thing is to get all ideas, no matter how silly or ultimately unfeasible, down because really good ideas often come out of silly ones!

I don't think there's enough creative approach to this sort of thing, just a rehashing (albeit slightly modified) of old policies and ideas. What we really need is a huge brainstorming session(s) to identify issues, think of solutions, etc. Let's apply design criteria to this and see what we can come up with!! I can bring my big newsprint pad so we can identify problems and have a fun brainstorming party, if you guys are up for it (and if Quynh and Josh are okay with it too). I know we have some guest speakers though, so whatever fits into the schedule!