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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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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 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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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 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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form parallel institutions
the biggest $ is the health system. imagine if we could set up a single payer system for all of sb county.
businesses, medicare, medicaid, individual insurance would pay into it. the efficiency would allow universal coverage at less than current costs.
bus rapid transit system, like Curitiba Brazil
bike rental system as in Montreal, Paris, etc.
Zip car system, expanded to reduce need for car ownership
Housing coops, apartments without greedy landlords
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We put people in touch
resources meet up with needs
We're the Go To organization
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The greatest contribution we can offer as a network is to be open and allowing in our relationships, so the vision we share can emerge in our midst -- and following evolutionary impulses that speak to us to form new social structures
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1) We help with housing to be more affordable. How? Need more time to discuss. I don't want to be a service provider.
Think we should work on the Country Center - empower more people to have a meeting place in this expensive town
We get involved with politico
We hold landlords accountable The mayor of SB wants a new tax
Because businesses have gone ut and resources are down
Noone is holding landlords accountable who drive out businesses with exhorbitant rents
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Support better and more comprehensive connectivity -- and be living examples.
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We need to develop a process for disset and differenes so we don't get bogged down as we move forward
we need to regularly come together and communicate, network, plan and play
community Coop
Online networking site
Quarterly townhall / celebrations
Create sustainable green development for water, energy, food, transportation
Bring people personally into core groups from town hall
ie, government, business, education, all sectors, funders, local currency, local markets
meet people's needs to get beyond the choir
See what people pay for and do that and add transformation
Provide not-institutional support for all of us including mothers, young childrens, elders, marginalized.
Make them useful, give them tasks, honor them, listen to them, learn from them
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Strengthen and coordiante the collective actions, wishes and needs of the larger community and the organizations currently working for change.
The network opens and holds the space and also aims to include more and more voices from the community.
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Service
- connections between existing groups
- cooperation/collaboration
- avoiding duplication
- strengthening bonds
- providing continuing enlightenment
Campaigns:
- show how old paradigm networks and decision-making processes Parallelling us
Paralle institutions
- community councils in every neighborhood
- decentralized decision-making
- share resources/opportunities/knowledge
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a) Offer fun transformational events.
b) Establish places to come together for cooperation.
c) Develop cooperative enterprises and institutions to meet people's needs.
d) Support people to do all of the above.
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