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| Internal Organizational Mission
What can we do to develop a decentralized movement of groups that work together for mutual aid and community resiliency?
What can we do to effectively develop our network?
(This will suggest actions such as "consciousness raising activities, leadership development, group facilitation exercises, etc., or anything else that will help to develop us into a viable and effective network)
What resources/skills do we need?
What goals can we set for ourselves?
How do we build an effective network?
Who needs to be represented in this network in order for us to truly say "we are the 99%"?
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Wholeness
In your opinion, what most needs to be redressed to make the country whole again?
The restorative/reparative justice side of this question is for participants to suggest how the needs of the victims of the injustice can be addressed to make them whole again in addition to holding the perpetrators accountable. Reparative justice frameworks address the victims needs being satisfied as well as holding the offender accountable. |
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Internal Organizational Vision
How will we know we have succeeded as a network?
What is our highest vision for a thriving Evolve Santa Barbara project? |
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External Mission
What do we do to effect change in our local community?
What service/role do we provide/serve our greater local community with?
Example answers to this question will include stuff like: we will feed the homeless, we will occupy homes of people who are being threatened with foreclosure, we will carry out campaigns to hold our elected officials accountable, we will advance 'parallel institutions' (such as co-ops) throughout our community. The goal of these initiatives is so that when the community speaks of our network they do so with positive regard for the work we do in our community as an network/organization. Such as, Evolve SB is so awesome they hold trainings in leadership development that all organizations in SB can participate in and benefit from, or, they're so awesome they feed the homeless every Saturday at their Occupy rally, or, they're so awesome they succeeded in developing community gardens in all the available land in churches throughout our community, etc. |
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External Vision
By serving our community in this way what world are seeking to create? What is our highest vision for our world that we seek to realize by serving our community? What is our vision for the world and what do we do in our community to help realize that global vision?
This question corresponds to our "highest vision" for our network, how will we know we are successful as a network, but asks it at the global level "How will we know we have achieved our vision our creating a parallel society, founded on justice, to supplant the old broken system?" For example, we will have ended world hunger, all wars, ended poverty, our society will practice sustainability in all we do, parallel institutions will hold power, there will be an international of local and national grassroots councils modeled after our local network and working together for mutual aid and resilience on a national and international scale. |
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Core Values
What are our Core Values that we will demonstrate in all we do to fulfill our Mission and Vision?
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create sbnetwork!
on-line -- where groups can see what is happening and when. easy to post.
periodic meetings - formal & informal
would be good to strategize which issues, action, methods can most help others
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Create Townhall representing sectors on the Hub
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Work at/give attention to how to provide basic needs -- food, shelter -- for all.
Economy shift.
While we are building a community infrastructure of food and shelter for all, we are all doing work that needs to be done and creatively that wants to come forth -- so all will advance.
Basically get away from working for money to meet our needs so we can all work at what needs to be done, so we are all workng together as a city
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1. Identify a concern most people will work on
2. empower women and minorities, ie Latinosincludede Chumash groups as leaders
3. Identify meeting places and build lists, identify groups, including churches and Tea Party
4. Hold regular salon meetings maybe potlucks, maybe monthly
5. Hold training - use Massey exercises
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We need to practice everything we know about good networking -- and then we have be able to enfire our network and community with vision and inspiration.
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We do need a physical place to come together
To start, we need events to bring people together - fun and transformational
Continue networking already developed like them
Thelocal coop meetings
Many people asked for it - to be continued
We need to bridge the gap between "the two Santa Barbaras"
2 languages
we need to start to change the environment
experiences of children from their early years -- we need to have hard working take charge visionaries be paid to move things forward to they can devote their lives to it
change physical environment to be more green and sustainable
protect our nature resources
use resources where they are generated
lower rents
create fair housing sustainable, not "affordable" housing
make sustainabilty legal
more bikable walkable world
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Create a space where these groups can come together - in an affinity-group like way.
Identiy groups and organizations and communities -- open up lines of communications, support the groups in our own personal way, of course.
Use the Occupy movement to coordinate and to rally and to federate with other communities
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Identify ambassadors that reflect different interests
- food/water
- shelter
- social structures
- spiritual
These ambassadors act as conduits between the core and all the groups represented in that particular interest area
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a) Create and offer transformative experiences.
b) Establish places where new culture grows.
c) Evolve networks of connections, communication, co-creation and coordination.
d) Build organization structures that are human scale and flexible.
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