Augusto Cuginotti is a facilitator and activist based in Brazil whose work involves designing minimalist interventions for individual and collective learning. After not seeing what he felt was a particularly promising aspect of Brazil's recent uprisings being represented in the media's telling of what happened, he decided to contribute his own story. What follows is a re-print of an article he wrote for www.opendemocracy.net about the 'Dialogue of 1,000 Tables' that was held in four major cities across the country last June.