AGENDA
* Review of action items
* Strategies
* Actions
STRATEGIES
How do we connect with other communities?
- Through shared needs, shared resources, and/or shared threats.
Interestingly, we realized this is also how we connect with individuals within our community as well.
Showing posts with label Community Connectedness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community Connectedness. Show all posts
Workgroup: Community Connectedness - Apr 14, 2011
AGENDA
* Mission Statement
* Review Past Actions
* Strategies
* Actions
MISSION
How can communities connect with each other and to communities outside?
Why interested in this?
* we are societelly alienated
* connectedness = safety
* we want to find and build trust
* we want reliability
* confidentiality is important
* take anarchism to its logical conclusion: how link together
* local decentralized non-hierarchical
* work together
Mission Statement
* Mission Statement
* Review Past Actions
* Strategies
* Actions
MISSION
How can communities connect with each other and to communities outside?
Why interested in this?
* we are societelly alienated
* connectedness = safety
* we want to find and build trust
* we want reliability
* confidentiality is important
* take anarchism to its logical conclusion: how link together
* local decentralized non-hierarchical
* work together
Mission Statement
"We desire to meaningfully connect with others within our communities and have our communities connected with other communities. We want to be welcoming, inclusive, and willing to grow."
Workgroup: Community Connectedness May 12, 2011
[brief notes from small group]
community connectedness: Vibe at Subrosa, how to integrate anarchist community and "street people" community
Themes: need for check-ins, what defines a community, communication, need for a shared community, desire not to other, find commonalities, need for a drop-in center, desire to see houseless folks self-organize to resist oppression
community connectedness: Vibe at Subrosa, how to integrate anarchist community and "street people" community
Themes: need for check-ins, what defines a community, communication, need for a shared community, desire not to other, find commonalities, need for a drop-in center, desire to see houseless folks self-organize to resist oppression
Workgroup: Community Connectedness May 26, 2011
[A focus on SubRosa as a community, with lots of levels of participation]
In the small group, members of the SR collective and non-members talked about community connectedness in this community. We started by brainstorming our understanding of what's going on. On a general level, some people don't like how it feels at the space. We cited the drug dealing [on the nearby street], the reputation of the space that is connected with this, and feeling [overwhelmed] in the space as concerns. This lead to questions of what is going on the flip side, i.e. what is good and welcoming at the space? We deepening the conversation with open questions of what is anarchism, SR, and whether being a place to hang out is a part of being radical or not. We agreed that SR is very open to interpretation, which is positive, but that being so open may let behavior happen that creates hostility.
This led to action suggestions. In the vein of connectedness, we thought having conversations and direct questions of the patrons might be a place to start. More than this having forums to collaborate and describe SR, a la demystifying anarchism, would be insightful. Also, thinking about the Spruce street milieu and possible ways to transform that space were discussed. Two members committed to systematically engaging, observing and interacting with as many people as possible in order to understand the issue at a deeper level. A third member committed to addending the open letter from SR to the community
We ended with questions of do we underestimate SR? Do people value it more than we think? And asking about behavior in the space, what makes us happy, angry, scared, and/or sad?
In the small group, members of the SR collective and non-members talked about community connectedness in this community. We started by brainstorming our understanding of what's going on. On a general level, some people don't like how it feels at the space. We cited the drug dealing [on the nearby street], the reputation of the space that is connected with this, and feeling [overwhelmed] in the space as concerns. This lead to questions of what is going on the flip side, i.e. what is good and welcoming at the space? We deepening the conversation with open questions of what is anarchism, SR, and whether being a place to hang out is a part of being radical or not. We agreed that SR is very open to interpretation, which is positive, but that being so open may let behavior happen that creates hostility.
This led to action suggestions. In the vein of connectedness, we thought having conversations and direct questions of the patrons might be a place to start. More than this having forums to collaborate and describe SR, a la demystifying anarchism, would be insightful. Also, thinking about the Spruce street milieu and possible ways to transform that space were discussed. Two members committed to systematically engaging, observing and interacting with as many people as possible in order to understand the issue at a deeper level. A third member committed to addending the open letter from SR to the community
We ended with questions of do we underestimate SR? Do people value it more than we think? And asking about behavior in the space, what makes us happy, angry, scared, and/or sad?
Workgroup: Community Connectedness Mar 17, 2011
Notes from the isolation small group on Mar 17. 2011
Larger Goals
-organize a neighborhood meeting to address the concerns?
-block parties?
-block parent-houses (known/advertised safe houses in the neighborhood)?
-phone-tree to help with crisis prevention/response (instead of la policia)
Roadblocks:
-limitation of language (none of us speak Spanish)
-difficult to have a meaningful/engaged conversation with strangers
-how to phrase intentions (flyers?/clipboard with pen?/freshly baked cookies?...)
Larger Goals
-organize a neighborhood meeting to address the concerns?
-block parties?
-block parent-houses (known/advertised safe houses in the neighborhood)?
-phone-tree to help with crisis prevention/response (instead of la policia)
Roadblocks:
-limitation of language (none of us speak Spanish)
-difficult to have a meaningful/engaged conversation with strangers
-how to phrase intentions (flyers?/clipboard with pen?/freshly baked cookies?...)
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