We Don’t Consent! It still sticks, right?
So we’ve got a little to do to keep this going. Input here is encouraged! Yet the web is only one tool for an activist. It branches out quickly to more personal e-mail and phone calls and of course get together’s and actions as we grow closer. If we’re good at this, there ought to be organic growth beyond any controlling influences of a so-called starting circle of folks, ’cause, there ought to be non violent Revolutionary Councils in every city and town. Right?
Thinking about a meeting March 11, so let’s see what we can do here and by
e-mail, for getting a core of us folks together for organizing it.
1) What stands out boldly from our meeting 2/11 (for starts) is need for the most fundamental agreements in working together as a movement, a tribe…..and other vitally needed skills which almost immediately pop up, once we’ve got the basics down. Such digging will uncover incredibly useful and humane tools, kinds of alternative activities communities sorely need and can thrive on.
People don’t work together long, who don’t find the affinity. ‘Cause it’s never just issues , but why we know we can trust one another to do it! Such humility helps marginalize attitudes and all the personal freedom extraveganzas ‘taken for granted’, the bad habits formed in the “system” ! What’s the use fooling ourselves about any kind of nonviolent revolution, unless we’ve gone right down and found solid ground to stand on together? We all feel it and somehow know a cultural revolution wouldn’t be a bad idea, the place to start, particularly since “system” has never found it’s integrity, has almost altogether lost it’s spiritual objectives, is rapidly driving the entire world to industrialize ……and thus is determined to take all us species and/or a destroyed environment down! Solid goad for taking ourselves seriously.
2) Better communications and some methods for doing so, were mentioned at the Town Hall Meeting. We can do this. And it’s also crucial to be deciding what specifically we intend to bring to the Peace March………Sat. Mar 18th! A ripe place for more solid messages and commitments. 3,000 peoples annual two hour outing “doth not make the activist” nor change a thing in the long run.
Many of us have worked hard, and long for what we believe, soul searching and struggling in coming to grips with such unprecedented times, overworked and sorely needing others to jump in and help! It’s always, about what we offer, (more exactly what it is we’re good at ! ) We have integrity, but it’s marginalized a bunch by our consumptive habits and distractions. We’ve got to look hard at all this and redefine what works, what’s liveable and will serve both us and our children! People want something better and why they should join us in helping our movement grow. This would be a good start! But it’s all about how all of us feel and how much we all want it. Isn’t that right?