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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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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 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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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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We will be sustainable.
All basic needs met globally.
There will be visionary projects with international collaboration
science, heatlh, arts
CERN in Geneva was such a vision, from the ashes of WWII. It is what created the Hadron Collider.
I do believe in the kind of Big Science and Big Exploration that takes international coperation and funding to solve the really Big Questions delegated to supersitition and religion in the past
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Global - multinationals and banks no longer rule the political cloud
Sustainable vibrant communities everywhere
No hunger - no poverty
Women are valued for their work
Monsanto goes out of business
Bomb makers have no buyers
etc.
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Resonate / initiate / cocreate from place of autonomy and full cooperation
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WE stop keystone tar sands
We reverse climate change and worldwide regulations and fossil fuel extraction and use
We develop clean renewable energy
The most important thng is learning to cooperate -- we all learn in school how to work out differnces peacefully
We stop police state actions in our County first, repeal Patriot Act
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We want a world that supports the realization of the highest human potential. We want to encourage the full unfolding of our evolutionary capacity, in as many ways as possible.
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Everyone has access to clean water and sanitation, and is not using too many resources
We have done away with toxins and toxic eements
we nurutre mother earth and respect all beings
life is simpler and sacred
deviants are somehow rehabilitated or understood
we don't all have to be the same
dignity and respect for all
equal economic opportunity
basic needs outside of economics
world is sacred, natural resources intact, we don't live beyond our means
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The end of global capitalism, imperialism and the autonomy given back to the people across the world.
Also, collective action to end wars, pollution and environmental destruction, and a fair sharing of the world's resources that is not guided by profit by by the needs of people and ecosystems.
A world which is actively seeking to give everyone a healthy and meaningful life.
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We will know we are successful on a global level
- Respect for different ways of life
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Cooperation
Ultimately recognizing the inerconnectedness of all life on this planet / our home
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a) Global warming is arrested.
b) People around the world are not exploited and oppressed to meet our desires for more.
c) People around the world are supported to live collectively in relatively autonomous cooperative communities.
d) Regional and International cooperation, not competition, is the norm.
e) Ignorance and intolerance are eliminated (ha!)
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